@OzgurCreativity@Baizebub@_GirlSay maybe not everything is performative? If anything, this rhetoric just proves that every nice interaction you've ever had with a woman is manipulation.
@heyyitsjanea the oldest has to act happy about it, but I can tell you from experience that the happiness isn't genuine ππ
as parentified children, we are conditioned to grin and bear it. That's why we all grow up to be insane people pleasers with CPTSD π
@JoshFddg@scorpioslater nobody is going after his body, they are talking about how ridiculous the picture is because of the angle and green screen, it feels inauthentic.
I genuinely cannot understand how generation above me ended up here. We grew up idolising David Bowie and through him discovered Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. We lived through punk and post punk smashing gender norms in public. We watched Prince blur masculinity and desire. We danced to Boy George. We worshipped Grace Jones. Then came the flamboyance of the eighties where androgyny excess and self invention were celebrated. Gender bending was not a threat. It was art. It was freedom. It was cool.
So how did the same generation become so hostile to people simply existing outside rigid boxes. How did we go from celebrating difference to fearing it. This backlash does not come from culture or history. It comes from forgetting who we were and what we stood for. None of this is new. Get over it.