I ticked all the boxes in high school. Ironic-but-not-really fascist, incel, anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, pick a reaction, really. Now I’m happily married, father, Kinsey-1, reading theory, with growing class consciousness and looking to build solidarity with those people that a worse version of myself once dismissed as lesser or ungodly. It took leaving home, developing positive and loving male-male friendships, and being told that I was good enough and worth love irrespective of my accomplishments for me to start to develop the capacity to love others in the same way. Those who have traveled a similar path, what did it take for you?

    • PbSO4 [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I'm really glad I somehow dodged gamergate. It would've been like crack if I'd been online enough at the time to pick up on it.

      Please don't take this as negative, but what's it like taking estrogen as a cis male? It's the first time I've come across such a concept.