My whole point is why shouldn't be shocked or annoyed that a guy doesn't want to smell like daiseys and roses.
There's nothing wrong with being who you are. That means we should be supporting effeminate gay people, supporting trans people, but also supporting guys who don't want to smell like girl scents.
I do not think that gender norms or toxic masculinity is the cuprit. Some dudes really don't like dresses and do like trucks. It's not all just because of norms.
As a liberal in most ways (except on guns), and as a pro 2nd Amendment LGBT American, I'm sorry.
Many of us have "evil fatigue" and "ignorance fatigue" and are just exhausted from how many people in our country are total shitheads.
The list of people for me to apologize to: -dead people in Gaza -alive people in Gaza -all Latinos -all transgender people -Canada -all scientists -intellectuals at Harvard -Ukrainians -Women who were killed due to abortion policies -Anyone in a country killed due to a sudden lack of aid without much warning to even prepare
As a mostly liberal American, I just don't know where to begin. I also think bad environmental policies are going to destroy the planet, and when I look at conservative middle America and how intolerant and racist their values are, I am sort of like "well, maybe total planetary extinction isn't that bad"
I just don't know if I could change it at this point, if there's anything I could do.
The constant horror of the policies being enacted in this country is so terrible, that it's hard to really continue to say "sorry, we don't all believe this!" Some people protest, some don't, but really many liberals are also just treading water psychologically. It's quite possible that the fatigue being felt is being intentionally induced.
There may be a way to get past the fatigue, but it's being combined with financial stress, and for me, apologizing to Canada, standing up for Canada, is just not on the top of the list.
I really do not see what is happening as a conservative revolution. I see this as the self-centered wealthy class realizing they can exploit white trash and technology to destroy the middle class and create a permanent underclass and them. I do not think JD Vance Trump Thiel etc are actually religious, I think it is this final push towards neofeudalism.
It feels like it will unfortunately lead to either communism/socialism or neofeudalism, that there isn't a middle groud.
The neo-feudalists have made a bet: the white trash class is so numerous and so hateful towards transgenders and Latinos and "the other," that they can simultaneously eliminate many jobs using tech, reduce social services for poverty, and create a new Chinese-style of quasi-authoritarianism in America based on technology ans biometric information... And they can do this as long as they distract the white trash class with tricks and diversions: oh! Look! Mexican criminals! Look over here! Oh no! Transgenders in bathrooms! Look over there!
And so far, the magicians seem to be right. The yokel white trash of middle America, well over 60 percent of the country, is too stupid to realize they are being tricked by a magician.
So, many middle class people, and lower middle class people, especially technological enthusiasts, see what is happening. But what now? I'm exhausted. I do not know how to reason with idiots. I am just trying to brace myself for impact.