Orannis62 [ze/hir]
Also love the part where she apologizes to Ken for pushing him to be misogynistic and create patriarchy. Because misogyny is always actually women’s fault
Yeah I’ve always found it so weird when cishet coworkers would talk about this stuff as if there’s no reason I could find it weird. One coworker in particular, in between telling me about her gender reveal for her then-current pregnancy, would also tell me about how effeminate one of her sons is in a lightly mocking tone. And it’s like, how do you expect me to react to that?
So before I came out, I was in a straight-appearing relationship, with dynamics that were unconsciously just queer enough that we often lightly made fun of our more traditional straight couple friends, like literally “are the straights ok?” type stuff (we still thought we were straight though, somehow).
EVEN SO it was so much more stifling than any of my relationships after I came out. The expectations are constant and unrelenting until you get to a place where there’s no possible way anyone can read you as cishet, and even then cishets are so oblivious you have to outright tell them
I’m doing IBR with payments of $0