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cats-in-the-clouds · 2 years ago

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it’s important to try very hard to be as patient and understanding and reasonable as possible and i tell myself aw c’mon how hard can it really be to just chill out and be nice? but every now and it hits me again how we’re all being subjected to a mass gaslighting campaign and then i’m like ah that’s why i’m exhausted deep in my soul all the time. i’m being made to think i’m utterly insane for wanting words to have actual meanings so maybe that makes me a bit cranky y’know

#there really is just an attack on the art of human communication going on right now huh #man it’s so much easier talking to people about literally anything else other than transgenderism #even if it were the most controversial; vitriol-filled topic in the world #nothing compares to the exhaustion of going back and forth with a person because the two of you have different definitions of basic words #the exhaustion of you trying to use pronouns that the basic rules of the english language call for #becetse you paid attention in first grade #but being instantly shut down for it because no matter how hard you argue they do not care if you’re right #you get slammed for being ‘disrespectful’ as if they have a real definition of that word either #like you can’t even converse with someone else like that if the basic parts of the language are something that can’t be agreed on #but neither of you can even concede and agree to the other’s terms because that undercuts the point of the argument #it is a war over language itself and that sure does make communication with those on the opposite side impossible #like in other cases conceding and agreeing to use a specific word in conversation is totally fine and easy #i have no problem saying ‘fetus’ as opposed to ‘baby’ because those terms aren’t mutually exclusive to me. it’s fine #but i can’t say ‘trans woman’ when the correct term is man #i refuse to act like ‘transgender’ is just another simple adjective #as opposed to a buzzword that indicates that the following word is actually the opposite of whatever it says #it’s very tiring having to read through a message written in this kind of opposites day code and have to translate it to yourself first #but i’ll do it idc i’m not giving an inch

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