Don’t let them have any peace with those opinions. My mother became a cop when I was a kid and she went from tree hugging hippie to loud and proud racist so fast. It took YEARS of arguing and fighting every time she said something racist before I could finally get through to her. Don’t let up. My sister got sucked into transphobic bs too and she finally stopped talking about it after getting a lot of pushback over a couple of years. My husband got sucked into the alt right pipeline in the late 2010s after a lifetime of being hard left. That also took a couple years of never letting anything slide and fighting about every stupid video he watched. Don’t give up on your family and cut them out, either, though, please. I know it’s tempting but I feel we all have the responsibility to pull our loved ones out of the cult. It’s the only way for society to move forward. It’s hard. I know. I’ve done it three times.

Personally, monetizing my hobbies has always killed them for me. It takes a good few years after moving onto a different job before I can find joy in the hobby again, if ever.

Yeah. We don’t get harassed because those men find us attractive. It’s because they want to make us uncomfortable.

Women would absolutely be judgmental about it but it’d definitely be men doing the harassing and assaulting.

Legally it’s allowed but socially it isn’t. We can’t go topless without being endlessly harassed and probably assaulted. It was bad enough when I walked home with my bikini top after going swimming.

Unfortunately I knew. I don’t know how you didn’t. I’m jealous.