The world spent 30 years calling Japan 'behind.'
Still uses cash.
Still uses fax.
Still has tiny shops run by one old couple.
Then the world got 'ahead' —
and ended up lonely, rushed,
and scrolling at 2 AM.
Now the same people are flying to Japan
just to feel something they can't name.
A meal made by hand.
A street that's quiet.
A stranger who's kind for no reason.
Turns out Japan wasn't behind.
It just refused to trade away
the things that actually make a life.
@johncox510456@jaymurt2805@helenstaniland What if left handed people want their own bathrooms? And gingers?
What about gingers that *only* want to share bathrooms with trans people?
What about the 70+ different "genders"? Do they each get a bathroom?
CVS.
I bought one tube of toothpaste.
The receipt reached the floor.
I picked it up with both hands. A document this long is not handed over lightly.
"Save those, hon. They're coupons."
Coupons. I see. So the store had extended me favors. Unasked.
A favor, once given, must be answered in full. This is known.
That night I read every line at the table. Cat food. Diapers. A flu shot. A survey. A second survey. A prescription reminder for a man named Gerald.
I do not own a cat. I do not have a child. I am not Gerald.
It did not matter. The favors had been offered to me. To leave even one unredeemed would shame the hand that offered them.
At dawn, I returned.
"I am ready."
"...for?"
"All of it."
I walked out with cat food, diapers, a flu shot in my arm, and Gerald's prescription, which I intend to deliver to him personally.
At the register, she handed me a new receipt.
It was longer than the first.
@noinconsistency You guys want straight up men in women's bathrooms.
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Now you're acting concerned about a masculine looking person in the women's room?
@KT_GenXer1969@SVPhillimore They got a *lot* of free goodwill by latching on to LGB.
Folks may think "i support my G and L friends so why not the T"?
Possible "guilt" over how long it took for fairness and protections for LGB so people fast tracked anything the T wanted?
Just a couple thoughts.
@helioghostt@CherryDarl48362@myeonutella That sounds really transphobic to transmen.
Don't you consider them real men? Are you implying there is some sort of social or biological reason they aren't a threat to women in the same way?
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