A person with a somewhat masculine voice says in a higher pitched tone, โBlue hair is weird!โ They then change their voice to their regular tone, and say, โIโm gonna teach you this how I would teach a child. I donโt know your life story, but for the sake of making this an educational video, Iโm gonna use stereotypes, so only take what resonates with you.
One child is born in a seemingly functional, to their awareness, loving family, while the other is getting quite the opposite. You canโt choose that youโre born with it, so youโre put out in this world and the majority of your peers are like you, and the majority of your teachers, parents and authority are like you, and the majority of the media out there is showing people like you. So all of the kids that are not depicted by this media feel erased and different immediately from the time theyโre born, how they are born. You may feel too feminine as a boy, too masculine as a girl, like youโre in the wrong body, like you donโt think exactly neurotypically as everyone else, youโre too thin, youโre too thick, youโre too dark, youโre not dark enough. Kids like this immediately understand the struggle of not being accepted by the majority, and if itโs not the peers doing it, keep in mind they have the same authority and media only depicting the majority of one type of person.
So both the outcasts and the masses are gonna ask the same question of how do I fit into society, and the majority of the authority and media is gonna be saying things like โGod is the answer,โ โman marries woman,โ โgirls are this way, boys this way.โ You have a set amount of rules that if you have no reason to question, youโre not gonna disagree with. But when this world has taught you itโs not for people like you, youโre gonna ask, โwhy is it that way?โ which brings us to, โwho is teaching us this?โ Oh, people from this era or earlier, whoโs making this stuff, people in this era or earlier, โLet me do my research on who taught them that stuff.โ
A common flaw with human beings is that they accept societal norms that are only in place for a little bit over their lifetime because they never lived to see a reason to question it. When you are born in a world thatโs seemingly against you, you have reason to research why these traditions are in place, and you say, โWow, if I happened to be born in the 1900s, pink was for boys and blue was for girls, and cheerleading is for boys and heels are for men, and the bible was changed to be anti-gayโ. Itโs almost like what we are taught is unreliable and not inherently factual, and in the time this was being taught, no one in the masses was disagreeing.
Everyoneโs born in a box, but we werenโt all born with default settings, so we learned that humans can express themselves however they want. The way you think that only natural hair colors is normal, or how you dress is the right way, or blue hair automatically makes you weird, or pronouns equals liberal, that is taught to you. If this existed in the 1900s, this would be awesome [he points at blue hair], and this would just be english language [he points at pronouns]. When youโre wildly accepted by the masses, I see why you wouldnโt want to step down, youโre at the top of the pyramid. But the reason that we dye our hair blue is that the only people that wildly accepted us are other people who werenโt afraid of being different.
Now listen, maybe you just like authentically being a part of the masses, maybe your true self likes this stuff, thatโs fine. But you also have to acknowledge that you were taught to avoid anything that would get you bullied or a negative reaction by the masses. So therefore, whoโs really the top of the pyramid? [He flips the pyramid drawing upside-down].โ
