think I still am. Which was a thoroughly blunt, arrogant and angry person. I'm still fucking angry, but for entirely different reasons now. I'm so angry at men. At these old and saggy monsters who so joyfully manipulate people for the sake of their wealth and power. I'm so angry at the parents who - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

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think I still am. Which was a thoroughly blunt, arrogant and angry person.

I'm still fucking angry, but for entirely different reasons now. I'm so angry at men. At these old and saggy monsters who so joyfully manipulate people for the sake of their wealth and power. I'm so angry at the parents who

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levion.bsky.social•63 days ago

willfully indoctrinate their kids into this shit. Who genuinely believe it's providing their kids with something better when it's such harmful rhetoric, such a stunted growth cycle and such awful, terrible and repressive parenting that each and every single self-respecting individual who takes part

levion.bsky.social•63 days ago

in it STILL after all the evidence, and the CES letter and everything else; they should be so deeply, personally ashamed of themselves.

I'M ashamed. I'm so mad at myself for falling for this for so long. For never questioning a thing until long after I hurt so many people because of it. For being

levion.bsky.social•63 days ago

so small-minded so as not to see out of my bubble. And honestly it's so easy to make excuses. People who didn't grow up in the environment here have absolutely no idea how bad it is. It seriously is considered "wrong-think" down here to believe different. You get so gaslit and silently cut off for

levion.bsky.social•63 days ago

not believing what others believe until you either crack or decide trying to stand up for what you DO believe in isn't worth it anymore. I hate it here so much.

I just want to fix myself and be a better person. To be as tolerant as I can be and love people who are struggling in their own ways. So

levion.bsky.social•63 days ago

much of what kicked off my active separation was seeing just how vile the rhetoric from my friends and relatives during this past election cycle and the "trans panic" and all that shit. I just can't put up with it anymore. I can't put up with the way people I once respected and thought intelligent

levion.bsky.social•63 days ago

treat other people. It's heartbreaking. But I have nowhere else to go to cope with it. The few non-internet "friends" I still have are so faux-tolerant it hurts. Absolutely willing to agree in silence but not out loud and even then I'm still called weird or too different in private to get any sense