I thought about this recently, and I realized something. Once upon a time, kids were chastised and made fun of when they didn’t conform. Nowadays, nonconformity is not only the norm, but conformity is eschewed and seen as a “microaggression.”
It used to be that society set the rules and the templates, and parents raised their children to abide by those rules. Nowadays, kids are left to “find themselves” and become rogues to conformity. Add on top of that this idea that everyone is a special little flower, and we’ve got a world full of weirdos. Problem is... when everyone’s weird, doesn’t that make weirdness the norm? When will our definition of “normal” become “nonconformist” again?
Exactly. They all conform to the same short list of ways to non-conform. There’s no actual individuality, just a destructive type of conformity to replace the old one they think they’re escaping.
They still are.
Try saying a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl and you can not turn one into the other by thinking magical thoughts and see how quickly you are chastised and made fun of until you conform.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking they are "non-conformist". They are trapped in a ideology that is ridged beyond anything we have seen thus far on planet earth because it has no basis in reality.