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I'm a fifty-something trans lady and I am just fucking tired of trying to change viewpoints. I just want to live my life and talk with my friends without some b

I'm a fifty-something trans lady and I am just fucking tired of trying to change viewpoints. I just want to live my life and talk with my friends without some butthead coming in and telling me I shouldn't exist, I get enough of that by checking the news lately. If you have the energy to politely engage people who think of you as a child molester who should be shot on sight, great! Go for it! But I have done that, and I am tired, and I do not want to do it any more. I run a Mastodon and I just want it to be a space to talk to my friends and maybe make some new ones, and thus, I block the fuck out of places I do not expect to get anything but hate from.

hinkley 3y ago
Common rhetoric among PoC even twenty years ago was essentially, "We're tired of being spokespeople and tutors for your problems." Not everyone is cut out to be an educator, and I think you should have the option not to be voluntold for the job. Not just because it should be your right, but because insisting that everyone in a group can speak for that group is itself stereotyping. I think once you see that it's really hard to be patient with people who don't.