When you're so straight that years later you come out as straight

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[–]LtGreenCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's more like "if you are a man, then you should dress as men do" and vice versa.

All cultures have gendered dress standards to some degree, and societies have evolved that way because the visual delineation between men and women has always been socially significant and important. Now, do I think such social norms should be upheld by force of law? Of course not. But I do think some modicum of social pressure is due in order to reinforce useful distinctions between men and women.

[–]QueenBread[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Your dumb social pressure is what started this bullshit TRAs movement in the first place. If people didn't give a fuck if men wore dresses and women had short hair, we wouldn't be in this predicament.

[–]LtGreenCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If that were the case then we would've had the TRA movement 100+ years ago and it would've happened to all cultures, not just Westernized cultures. So no, this "predicament" isn't because of social pressure. It's merely the symptom of a political and cultural sickness that has manifested only recently.

If this TRA nonsense is proof of anything, it's proof that when you forcefully expunge well-established social norms and force the culture to accommodate fringe identities then everything goes to shit.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most of the other cultures already bought into the gender stuff millennia ago. It was the originally-egalitarian Christian cultures that didn't succumb to it.