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I know many of my fellow terven hets have long been used to having to listen to boring ass woke dude blather so we can get laid, but will now sometimes find ourselves unable to follow through once gender becomes the topic du jour because it's just too goddamn cringe... so I wanted to share this funny story.
A few weeks ago I had a random hookup app guy suddenly start opining about how women are oppressed based not on sex but on gender expression and identity. I tried to tune it out like I'd had to do to abide the rest of his self-obsessed yammering but was ultimately unable to stop myself from starting to smirk, then outright laughing. I tried to keep it inside but couldn't.
With a nod to Atwood, it turns out men really don't like being laughed at, especially when they're all puffed up and serious about defending the boundaries of manhood against males they perceive as insufficiently masculine. They like it even less when they ask why you're laughing and you say, "because you're funny, but not in the way you want to be." So the inked-up vegan beardo communist with a ~this is what a feminist looks like~ button pinned to his floral lapel called me a crazy terf and walked out in a tizzy as I continued to laugh. I only wish I'd been able to laugh in his face a bit longer, because watching him get totally overwhelmed by the question "what is a woman?" and act like repeatedly rolling his eyes would suffice in lieu of a verbal answer in real time was one of the funniest things that's ever happened to me. The cookie-seeking TRA ally brigade is so eminently full of shit, I've never met one who could defend their own positions when asked plainly. Just a boatload of nonsense topped with an unironic utterance of the phrase "what is reality, though?"
So this is my advice to you, sisters who find yourselves in this position: say your piece, then laugh at them. Don't stop laughing until after they leave. Don't stop laughing ever. #nothankyou