Got dragged to an escape room by @pauline and her queers. We escaped, but only because of some accidental sequence breaking at the very end.
In my experience, men generally, do not have the toolkit to process meaningful deviation from a norm. They’re the cultural/social equivalent of the picky eater: grilled cheese and coca cola for every meal.
As the girls say, “they simply haven’t done the work.”
I went to a wedding in Chicago!
How did the midwestern football set handle the west coast Doll?
Mostly avoidance! A lot of fleeting eye contact. Zero acknowledgement of the change except for one guy who declared himself “too busy” to bother with my pronouns. 🤣
I’m not upset: this was done for science. (But I am amused)
@BioWD Ehhhh, it's more complicated than that. Gotta remember that this genders based oppression is almost exclusively Western in origin, and largely became A Thing worldwide (in Europe too, tbh) in the great colonial push of the 16-1700s.
And that gender diversity was used as the pretextual justification for the racist colonial subjugation of the global South.
A loooooot of the worldwide reaction against trans people these days is a very understandable cultural memory/terror of what white Europeans did to their ancestors, and why.
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