TV Notes: “Escaping Twin Flames”

“Escaping Twin Flames” is a Netflix documentary about a cult / marketing group that promised to get its members into committed life-long relationships with their soulmate. Members had to pay for self-improvement seminars that would solve their psychological problems and let soulmates materialize.

To make the scam work long-term, the cult leaders had to provide soulmates. The easiest, most reliable way to do that is to appoint soulmates from within the membership. This way you prevent a potential partner from getting bored and moving on after 3 dates. So the cult leaders decided to pair up all the single members of the organization, tell them they were destined to be together by divine forces, and declare it a massive success.

But here’s the problem. Who are the people most likely to pay tons of money for psychological improvement classes that would lead to marriage?

Women.

Almost all the cult members were women. Who do you pair them with when they joined the group to find men and there are no men?

The cult leaders found a simple solution. They declared half of the women to be men, ordered them to trans up, and paired them with remaining women. And the poor idjits agreed, that’s the funniest part.

Of course, the creators of the Netflix documentary ended up with a conundrum. They wanted to condemn the cult leaders but how do you do that without saying that transing people is wrong? If you can trans children, it definitely can’t be bad to trans adults.

The filmmakers found some poor professor of gender studies who tried to explain that the cult’s transers weren’t real transers because instead of saying “I want to be my true self”, they said “I want to become my true self.” Or the other way round.

For years, we’ve been told that if a woman says “I’m a man”, only a genocidal Nazi fascist evildoer would question this “self ID”. But in the documentary, there are many adult, highly educated, very articulate and successful women who say they are men, and it’s all of a sudden OK to call them delusional and brainwashed.

It’s comedy gold, people. Do watch before the show is pulled off air for enabling genocide, or something.

The documentary is also interesting because the cult leaders have no charisma. They are vulgar, stupid people who offer absolutely nothing yet there’s a herd of stupid needy women eager to hand them large sums of money. Literally anybody can start a cult and find a following. It’s kind of sad.