• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    If you were regularly harassed by being called a gender that you aren’t after spending years pretending to not be that gender because other people wouldn’t like it, you might care.

    Just like you might care if you were black and someone refused to stop calling you ‘negro.’

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      That’s my whole point though.

      I just can’t imagine caring about this very much. Sure, when I was an angsty teen, but as an adult “what people think” about me is just so far down the list of things I care about.

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        6 months ago

        Maybe because you come from a place of privilege where you didn’t have to hide who you really are due to a vast amount of society hating you for it and just want a little bit of courtesy from the people around them instead of endless hatred?