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[–]bolla_top 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why can't these people just be themselves? They are so obsessed with categorizing and labeling themselves.

[–]BEB 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I haven't read this yet because these people exhaust me, but I think that this kind of attention-seeking behavior is an offshoot of the helicopter parenting some Millennials experienced.

They are used to being the center of the universe, and so what way to (perhaps subconsciously) go back to being the center after the children are born? Declare yourself a gendxr special. It's all about ME.

[–]our_team_is_winning 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I can save you the time reading:

TL/DR: <And yet… mother is inherently gendered. It is female, and I am not. > This after she gave birth to kids.

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the very concise (and hilarious) summary.

What amazes me is that everyone in the US is a product of someone who had the gumption to pack up what they owned and travel hundreds or thousands of miles from all that they knew, sometimes leaving loved ones behind forever, into the unknown, and yet in 2020 so many of my fellow Americans are...