I must be high. Have to be.... cause what backassward logic is this!?!? ON FOOD STAMPS but PROTESTS HOW THEY DONT GET ENOUGH FOODSTAMPS!?
The only time I ran into that where it made sense was because the protest was the fully understandable one of total mystification at how the social worker thought you could
eat on that budget...because it was a homeless dude who basically needed to finish school to get a job he could do. (Vet with PTSD, at a point where the labor market meant that he definitely needed his certs to get a job he
could do...and we knew each other because he
was doing precisely that.)
On the other hand, with Wedge? Wedge has a job & a place to live. They're very likely adjusting his tugboat on the very reasonable expectation that Wedge will use some of his pay on things like his grocery budget.
I thought this was like, a peak autistic trait: being aware enough you have it but not aware enough to figure that it affects your life in particular ways. The munchie people are probably correct on this though.
From experience? The autists with that usually are
really nice about it overall, when you just politely let 'em know when they fuck up and try to help them avoid doing it. It's...kind of like if you were wandering around with a huge rip in your clothes showing off your ass: If you chimp out at somebody trying to warn you that you're mooning everybody...
If somebody quietly tips you off that this is going on and even offers to help you with damage control, would you chimp out on them?
Much like how Churches had to out their pedos and sex offenders, this person doesn't realize it's the same time for them. When you fear illegitimacy ann unacceptance more than pedophiles you get pedophiles sneaking in. Ironically, this makes your fears of invalidation and discrimination come true if you can't swat them out. The regular gays had to do it, you guys are blanking out on doing it since you're self absorbed in worry about yourself and your mental + physical health that you can't see the predators seeping into the floor like the start of an infestation of termites.
That is, if said persons aren't sex offenders themselves.
The regular gays are still working on getting the whole "Maybe fetishizing minors is not a good look" thing down. See: The recent SF Gay Choir video with the
really ill-considered song.
It might be a bit optimistic to ask the troons to grasp that if you don't wanna be thought as pedos and sex pests and predators? Maybe you should start being
publicly against those in your group who are doing that shit. This particularly goes for the Wokeandian section, which insists that others' silence is complicity.
Regardless of how true that might be,
insisting it's true means it's pretty reasonable for people to figure that is behind
your silence.