Emotional investment

People like Blaire White and JK Rowling are both obsessive and can't seem to let things go. One is selling herself as the "good trans" while the other compulsively writes about sex based rights which, for her, seems to necessitate clamoring about the dangers of accepting transgender ideology.

White is a conservative who desperately wants to be loved by the types of people who would normally hate her and has fashioned a whole industry out of berating people who she decides aren't the real McCoy. For her part, Rowling's abuse at the hands of some men has turned her into a rabid fighter for defending women against what she calls "men pretending to be women". Both are broken records. Rowling also has some company within the ranks of the gender critical movement.

The problem is that we are always talking about 1% of the population which shows how badly perspective has been lost. But when you have an agenda so fuelled with personal investment you can lose focus completely. The main drivers of love and fear work their magic and lead to an excess of emotion and wipe out all logic, common sense and even empathy. Simply put, a perceived lack of love and an increase of fear fuel insecurity which in turn feed aggression.

Most people I know are reasonable, level-headed and could not care less. If anything they go out of their way to be supportive for they have no emotional stake in the issue.

It is always the tipoff.