The Fragile Generation

I don't know. Perhaps. I'm one of those pesky Millennials and I grew up with a ton of abuse in a filthy hoarder's home. Because I had to deal with traumatic things from a young age, I know pain, and to me, these microagressions or being misgendered seem as traumatic as a paper cut. It makes these people sound profoundly privileged. I sometimes wonder if there's a 'good upbringing privilege' because it's sometimes as though such people had an entirely different development, which also includes feeling sorry for themselves for small things and minor life events. As in, they see it as an injustice, a crime against them, rather than as a negative part of life that just IS. I see it especially with men. One dude has it REALLY good and he literally thinks he has it worse than anyone else.

I wouldn't know the solution though as I don't advocate abusing children so that they need therapy later on to deal with scars. Maybe less shielding from mean opinions... don't know.

I think a lot of this gender crap is self-absorbed. But what do I know. No really. I too resist gendered norms and all that, but I don't need an identity that everyone has to take into account.

But I literally can't imagine the pain of a wrong pronoun or being misgendered.

/r/GenderCritical Thread