In defense of the tumblr gender... everything. I didn't really know that trans people existed until the "discourse". To be fair, I was a pretty sheltered kid, but like... I had no idea it was even an option. At the time I did think it was "stupid" and had a short anti-sjw phase spurred on by r/TumblrInAction, but at the end of the day I became aware that trans people existed mostly because of kids on the internet and their genders. So thanks tumblr.
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The same happened for me, the "anti-sjw" shit was my first introduction to gender expression and the idea of it made me uncomfortable and hostile.
Surprise surprise, I came out as trans some years later. Who woulda thought that queerphobia is usually spurred on by heavily closeted queers :p
Yeah, my experience was essentially the same: self loathing turned outwards. I wonder just how many trans folk are former transphobes...
Millenials, especially, should know better
Oh, yeah, I guess that seems kinda out of the blue with out context, sorry about that. One of the threads that inspired this post had some millenials complaining about genz, which struck me as ironic since millenials have historically been on the receiving end of intergenerational slap fighting.
Lol you're good, that was mostly tongue in cheek. I've seen those dumb millennials that have bought into the Gen Z vs Millennial articles too and they're infuriating. I love Gen Z, especially their politics,. I just hope they continue voting like they did in these past midterms because that was historic.