This is the whole basis behind stuff like a movement around "Black Is Beautiful", or calling the gay parades in the wake of the Stonewall riots "Pride" Refusing to settle for the table scraps called "tolerance", saying "No fuck you, BEING ME IS AWESOME AND SOMETHING TO ADMIRE"https://twitter.com/perdricof/status/1377809348118904832 …
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And yeah, you know what, it is Even the shittiest nastiest worst person in the world (which Caitlyn Jenner, frankly, isn't, much as I don't particularly like her) would still be "stunning and brave" for transitioning Precisely because of this shitty meme
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Precisely because something that, independent of all the other vices and failings and baggage of the person doing it, IS A FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL THING, will without fail be attacked as a perversion, as delusional narcissism, as self-involved psychological brokenness
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Any transition, any coming out of the closet, any act of saying "The box I was born into and expected to occupy is wrong and I'm picking a different one" is an act of liberation, a chain being broken, the world becoming a tiny bit less of the suffocating prison it usually is
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And it's so fucking easy for every other shitty peanut gallery loser to sneer at that To put on the uniform of a guard even though every single one of us is really here as an inmate, to find power in mocking and tearing down the idea of escape as a fantasy for immature freaks
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