Last week, I got hit by two shitty “trans people are fakers” jokes within two days, from two different people I care about.
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Tag: Social Justice
The Cinderella Ideal and Tone Policing
Why do people expect each other (and themselves) to be saintlike in the face of abuse and oppression?
When I was growing up, I never saw any media that talked about ways to deal with abuse. Sometimes there might be a horror story about an abuse case on the news, but there was nothing about how to handle the experience yourself. The only example I had was the story of Cinderella.
Tragic Gender Story 