On a wandering car trip the other day, I briefly
considered switching to they/them pronouns, in defiance of dumbass dudes who
use “pussy” as a pejorative. But then I decided that was a lot of work to
practice for myself, when I could just be antagonistic to dumbass dudes in
other ways. But the idea of trying to fight guys who say “pussy” about other dudes
by emphatically forcing them to use they/them with me is still intriguing. I’ve
got a lot of anger, and nowhere to misdirect it.
I’m also not sure why gender is such a disturbing thing for dudes who consider
themselves alpha or traditional or whatever the fuck excuse they’re using for their
prejudice is now. It’s really not hard to accept trans men and trans women and
gender binary or anything really. Like none of it is actually a threat to you,
and if you can just get along with people and make them happier and make your
life less unnecessarily dramatic, how is that ever a bad thing? People love to
be mad about shit all the time. Self-described macho dudes out here melting
down like a snowflake about every damn thing, left and right, hiding their
tears behind mirrored sunglasses reflecting a world that doesn’t exist anymore.
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