Just sat through a work meeting (unspecified but notoriously woke industry), that started with a pronoun round (I declined to participate and moved the conversation elsewhere when it was my turn) and duck me I’m so annoyed.
she/thems abounded, with an almost perfect overlap with those who have also in other contexts told me that they are “queer”.
They all have boyfriends. They are women with boyfriends who- for whatever stereotypes are worth- wear skirts and make up, enjoy typically female-coded pursuits etc etc.
Why do they do this? Why the duck are they like this?
I checked out when the meeting segued into a discussion about how a particular group of them had changed an activity that they did from being proudly woman-focused to being focused on “women and minoritised genders” and how they’d got backlash about it and how awful it was. They were also head scratching that their activity (sorry, I’m still being vague) had “inexplicably” suffered a drop in popularity, although they had gained more public funding, after they made this change.
ducked off with the whole thing. Can’t be bothered. Now drinking a daiquiri and contemplating my life choices.
If they find out I’m a terf, I’m ducked, tbh. This industry is all freelance and reputation based. I’ve got away with it so far but I feel like it’s a matter of time.
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