Heads up to my fellow cis-het white friends:

People tend not to like it when you defy theit expectations and refuse to fit into their pre-labeled box.

It took them forever to get the label template to work with their printer & they just can't imagine starting over again. They'll never admit this to themselves, much less you, and will instead pick an innane fight over something unrelated.

This isn't to warn you to coform and blend in. Quite the opposite. My life is an exercise in confusing & frustrating people's fascistic desire to homogenize the world. It's just to warn you what to expect.

I suspect that #fascist tendency is involved in anti #LGBTQIA hatred to some degree or another. #MyWhitePrivilege allows for me to observe this effect without many other confounding factors.

I'm weird enough but normal looking enough that I have gotten to witness this effect enough to notice it. Tension arise for no other reason.

#LGTBQ #AntifaAF #ArtFED #TTJ #WhitePrivilege #ResInt

It doesn't even have to be anything weird or gross. The effect is apparent as long as you suddenly don't fit into their model of you they've constructed from assumptions.

It could be something as simple as being an intelligent person with a country-ass accent. Or a logical scientist that's also interested in things without even the possibility of empirical proof.

A more common example would probably be being progressive in the South or a rural area.

Either way, it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with their preconceptions about you & the effort required to "reprogram your model".

This has been your #Antifaganda of the day. โœŒ๏ธ

@redstateinsurgents

#TTJ #HeirloomFiction #TVAC #RedStateInsurgents #Southerm #Rural

Just one more thing before you go. ๐Ÿ˜‰ This is all besides the fact that >1/2 of the time they're not thinking about & reacting to you at all. They got shit going on, too.

The other personal insight I think I've had is that I may have accidentally developed empathy by figuring out ways not to trigger this phenomenon.

By intuiting what aspect of the model they had of me was true, so that I could lean into that and some of the potential friction in the relationship. The simplest version of this that I can think of is shared hobbies & interests but the reason and mechanism are in the previous posts.

This concludes (probably) your #Antifaganda of the day. โœŒ๏ธ

@redstateinsurgents

#Empathy #TTJ #HeirloomFiction #TVAC #RedStateInsurgents #Southerm

@SrRochardBunson @redstateinsurgents I don't recall the guys name, but there was a progressive comedian I followed at the bird place that had a strong southern accent and it definitely fucked with my head.

@SrRochardBunson @redstateinsurgents

So many times in the past, I only wish, I could have phrased it, as you have here. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ