Detachment from your the community is a serious issue I think most people living in a capitalist society have. Being complete dependent on the state or the coporation which provide no love in return.

I feel like my entire life of emotional repression comes from generations of working class steeling them selves against the harshness of our circumstances. The people around me are low-key (but sometimes high key) homophobic, transphobic and racist...yet I'm inspired to try better by the people they hate, not by them. It's seriously the trans movement that woke me up to the fact I'm very unsentimental and devoid of affection because of a standard of masculinity i've been forced to conform to my entire life.

So if it's anything, people like you help me. When I was working those construction jobs and hearing the worst most vile shit echoed down from the murdoch media through the people who should be my people, just imagining that difficulty trans must go through compared to me...somebody too afraid to show any kind of natural affection despite being white, straight and all that basicness... really gave me insight into the changes I had to make.