I guess I was just holding out hope that more of them would turn out to be, well, something other than fascists. Not that I expected something other than, well… what we’re seeing right now.
Well we have good news and bad news. The bad news is it’s going to get a bit worse. The good news is it will then get much better. Conservatism is at a point where it needs to either completely take over, fuck everything up, and have it all come crashing down, or people will realise that’s what is coming, and we’ll see a wave of progressive governments across the world. (I imagine a particularly deadly Climate Crisis Summer in a first world nation will prompt this).
Ain’t this the fucking truth. I’m no spring chicken so I’ve Seen Shit™ over the years, and growing up in a conservative area as a neurospicy queer femme enby (yay intersectionality bingo) wasn’t exactly what I’d call a picnic – any deviation from accepted norms meant violence. Lots of violence.
Ugh, I’m so sorry you had to grow up like that. I cannot imagine being ‘neurospicy queer femme enby’ in a Con area. Seriously, I’m so sorry, I’m fourth generation atheist in a Left-leaning household, so I only saw that in my friends. My heart goes out to you, sibling.
Being nonbinary wasn’t even an option I was aware of until the past decade or so, which conservatives naturally take to mean that I just started “pretending” I’m now something else than my assigned gender instead of having always been this way and only now even having the terms to describe myself.
This is pretty much their modus operandi – they make something impossible, and then when it’s made possible people struggle, and that’s their ‘proof’ it wasn’t needed/necessary/etc. See: Women in sports. I’m glad you’re finding yourself, and if it is any consolation to you, despite growing up in a rather accepting household, I’m discovering a lot I had hidden as well, bordering on the ENBY/Femme front. And I’m in my 40’s, haha. It was my son coming out as queer that did it, because suddenly I’m doing makeup, clothes shopping, and nail art with him and going… “wait a sec… this is really fun.”
The past 15 – 20 years did make me feel like maybe shit actually can get better and we wouldn’t have to do this fucking dance anymore, but nooooooo.
Well I have some good news! Sadly it begins as all of these with bad news: Men (and boys) are way behind. The conservative illness has infected them quite badly. The good news is that women, as always, come to us as saviours; we just have to get my fellow men the fuck out of the way so we can actually progress forward.
Good luck, and if you ever need to talk to someone, message me, I’d be glad to :)
Well we have good news and bad news. The bad news is it’s going to get a bit worse. The good news is it will then get much better. Conservatism is at a point where it needs to either completely take over, fuck everything up, and have it all come crashing down, or people will realise that’s what is coming, and we’ll see a wave of progressive governments across the world. (I imagine a particularly deadly Climate Crisis Summer in a first world nation will prompt this).
Ugh, I’m so sorry you had to grow up like that. I cannot imagine being ‘neurospicy queer femme enby’ in a Con area. Seriously, I’m so sorry, I’m fourth generation atheist in a Left-leaning household, so I only saw that in my friends. My heart goes out to you, sibling.
This is pretty much their modus operandi – they make something impossible, and then when it’s made possible people struggle, and that’s their ‘proof’ it wasn’t needed/necessary/etc. See: Women in sports. I’m glad you’re finding yourself, and if it is any consolation to you, despite growing up in a rather accepting household, I’m discovering a lot I had hidden as well, bordering on the ENBY/Femme front. And I’m in my 40’s, haha. It was my son coming out as queer that did it, because suddenly I’m doing makeup, clothes shopping, and nail art with him and going… “wait a sec… this is really fun.”
Well I have some good news! Sadly it begins as all of these with bad news: Men (and boys) are way behind. The conservative illness has infected them quite badly. The good news is that women, as always, come to us as saviours; we just have to get my fellow men the fuck out of the way so we can actually progress forward.
Good luck, and if you ever need to talk to someone, message me, I’d be glad to :)