I donโt really understand how people who were young in the 80s act so confused about different gender identities and expressions when the celebrities of their time looked like this pic.twitter.com/o7yqH61eOg
โ sarah (@thesarahkelly) October 27, 2021
The crucial difference is that we were having a lot more fun then, I think. Everything wasnโt so authoritarian. Yes, it was a lot worse for LGBTQ people then, especially if you were in a rural area, but at the same time there was often in many cases less judgment.
No one was trying to convince you that biology isnโt real, no one was attempting to make you believe that biological males should compete in womenโs sports, etc. Ideology on all sides wasnโt so farcical.
I think overall things are better now, but pretending nothing was lost is just wrong. We lost a lot, perhaps gained more. But people want to posture like itโs harmful to talk about what was lost and I donโt see any reason to humor them at all.