But now that I understand this, it does seem to be a slippery slope. At first it's just the water fountains, buses, and lunch counters. But before you know it, miscegenation is common and the presidency isn't even out of reach. And of course, vast swathes of censorship and gaslighting to try to bully the populace into complying.
I'm going to share your thoughts with my oldest friend, currently existing under the delusion that h̶i̶s̶ her seemingly well-adjusted and unassuming life is not the threat to society it clearly is. Thank you for doing your part to fight back against people like h̶i̶m̶ her.
I appreciate your gentle feedback on my relationship to women's rights, as well as your your heartfelt stand against bullying. Although I struggle to see how my uninsightful previous comment had anything to do with that topic, I can only assume you've identified something in me to which I've been blinded by my unfortunate grandfathered affection for a living, breathing trans human being.
My tragic lack of self-awareness is perhaps because I personally witnessed years of merciless bullying during our shared childhood in one of the most conservative areas of Texas. You see, when I compare my memory of that poorly fitted kid to the successful, kind, and well-loved person they are today, when I consider their deeply personal, hard-fought struggle towards self-acceptance that I myself witnessed, it is easy to miss just how insidiously they are, in fact, perverting our society to its certain doom. So subtle is this agenda of destruction that one might be forgiven for thinking it doesn't even exist at all.
Going forward I will do my best to defend women's rights by demanding that my friend accept upon h̶i̶m̶s̶e̶l̶f̶ herself the mantle of traditional femininity, no matter what h̶e̶ she may think about that or how cruelly it will be received by the sort of people who tormented h̶i̶m̶ her in our formative years. You've truly made a difference today.
It doesn't stop at pronouns though does it. This is the real problem, and how we've ended up with men in women's prisons, women's shelters, women's locker rooms, women's sports. Children being medically and surgically abused in the name of gender affirmation. And vast swathes of censorship and gaslighting to try to bully the populace into complying.
Let's not pretend that this is all a kerfuffle around pronouns. It is not, and never has been.