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- Feb 28, 2021
I'd skimmed parts of it but never heard that bit.Everyone who can't make it through 4 hours of this shit Listen from 1 hour, 47 minutes. Listen for three minutes. Enjoy.
What I can't get over is just how... fragile it is? Like a rational person in this situation* would go "Oh, I didn't get to come out the way I wanted to, and I'm really frustrated. That sucks. Oh well, same difference" and they wouldn't have a nervous breakdown over the fact they didn't get to come out the way they wanted to and that was taken away from them and they can never get it back. Also, this is coming out to coworkers! Most of these people are just turning up for a paycheque and when you change jobs you'll likely never see most of them again. What's the big deal?** How empty is your life that your devastated that coming out to Sandra from Accounts wasn't picture perfect?
The language is similar to when the terminally online trans people bang on about not getting to do [stereotypical thing from gendered childhood], like "I never got to have a sleepover with other girls" or "I never got to roughhouse in the boys' locker room". Loads of people didn't have that. I had a bit of a shitty childhood*** but I don't mope around thinking "I never got to have the childhood I wanted, and I'll never get that back, and I'll always have that void where a happy childhood would have been. That was robbed from me.". I think "well, that's a shame, but nothing I can do about it now, and I've grown from the experience". I certainly don't try and re-enact my childhood via "little space" or whatever.****
I think the thing unifying both of those is that - even if you'd gotten what you think you wanted, it still wouldn't have worked out how you think. One of those twitter troons, magically transported back and made into an adolescent girl - well I bet she'd have been an awkward one who was excluded from parties or picked on by other girls, or otherwise just had a very medicore time of it as opposed to having pillow fights in lingerie. Likewise this guy - if his coming out had been on "his terms" - well, I think he'd probably have just dealt with his colleagues going "uh ok thanks for letting us know, anyway we've got some deadlines to do so ttyl"
*I am aware a rational person would not find themselves in this situation
**I am aware that "what's the big deal" would also apply to e.g. "my corporate profile picture is going to take a few months to update"
***Hence why I post on KiwiFarms
****I appreciate a lot of them doing that are really covering up their noncery
It's just kids being kids and not having a filter. While some kids are getting very confused there's a child in my life who was on the knife edge for a little bit about being trans, the majority of them are probably just learning "this woman feels like she's a man so to be polite we'll agree with 'him' and play along". Little'uns don't get that and so blurt out exactly what they're thinking (especially at a summer camp where there's no parent to hurridly hush them).Seems to me kids have a good handle in gender until the schools try to fuck them up these days.