I think that I'm not particularly affected too bad.

The thing with me is I find there's no good middle area for dating or friends. You can go on Grindr purely for hookups and people on there largely won't bother with or understand the modern gender BS. Even many who present as trans there don't use the proper woke terminology. I'm not someone who seeks out sex or hookups though. I used to make use of online dating sites and met a few people who I ended up being friends with. At the time I was a bit too self aware that I was socially awkward and didn't want to force someone to deal with that in a relationship. Being friends was manageable but i would just make it clear that I wasn't going to date anyone.

Now i think I'm ready but all these dating sites like OkCupid have converted into this awful app based "swipe left/right" shit. I used to love OkCupid and could start up conversion with random strangers. Now they basically wipes out that whole social aspect and it's almost entirely based off of matching on swipes.

Then anyone who isn't purely looking for hookups and who could be conversation or friend material is ultra performatively woke. I don't actually want to deal with someone who is going to try and report my account for refusing to do pronouns or not taking enbys seriously or just saying homosexuality is real... Even though those same people would never date a ftm but attack others for saying it out loud. I don't actually want to talk about any of this gender stuff but it always comes up somehow.

I end up only talking to right leaning people because they are far more open to conversation even when we disagree on everything. The ones who think they are left but really just right wing neocon liberals are just completely obnoxious with the refusal to engage with viewpoints which are deemed xyz-phobic.

I do have a few friends who are basically left leaning without care of the liberal BS but it's rare for people to say it out loud and even then everyone needs to self censor in larger social circles because the morality police will come after you.