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[–]sugar_gliderx 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I feel this hard. I only commented on GC posts with my throwaway shitlord account specifically for GC discourse. And in the last month due to the craziness with all the riots and whatnot, plus for other improvements in my mental health in my personal life, I decided to fast for a month from Facebook. The time away has been amazing for me. And now I realize how little I miss all those "friends" whose opinions I can't stand.

The time for me now is to be public and have confidence in my conviction. Women's rights depend on it. I have to be brave and be okay with losing friends and losing footing with my public pages and whatnot. We live in an era now where conversation is impossible if discussion revolves around "transphobic" actions, "racist" actions, or "homophobic" actions (and when I put this in quotes I mean things that could be attacked as homophobic when it may really just be calling out a POC, LGB, or trans person for crappy actions entirely unrelated to their race or sexual orientation). The banning of GC absolutely helped me peak and understand that I've been being selfish by being silent.