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RaveGender Critical Gratitude Post
This is just a gratitude post, for all of Ovarit, but especially this board, as I just spent an hour on another site, reading posts by people I actually know complaining about how they don’t like people who are “anti-science and transphobic” and completely unaware of the cognitive dissonance they’ve had to reconcile to say things like that.
I am so exhausted by people who claim to be tolerant and open minded and social-justice-oriented also vehemently defending the idea that boys who are sweet and sensitive are actually girls and girls who don’t want to wear itchy, uncomfortable dresses that they have to keep clean are boys.
I am not currently in a position where I can be outspokenly and confrontationally gender critical (I never lie outright, though), but it’s draining nonetheless to see so many friends fall into this cult, whether for themselves, for their children, or to win friends.
And this place is a cool oasis in a hot, parching desert. Thank you so much, all of you, mods and participants alike, even the ones I often disagree with about other things, because it’s so good to have a place where I can say that 2 + 2 = 4.