Unfollow the World
Being able to walk away is a privilege.
If someone says “Cis people are terrible FOREVER” and a cis person is like “fuck this” they can do that, you know? They can get away from tumblr, or where ever the message is, and immediately be inundated with the exact opposite message. They can return to a world where they reign as the majority, as what is held up as right and good and correct. They don’t have to sit there and take it.
But if someone starts talking about trans people in a negative light? I don’t really have anywhere to go. I have trans friends, and they’re amazing and positive and uplifting about being a trans person and being loved by other trans people. But, there’s no escaping the messages the world leaves for me. I’m bad, I’m wrong, I’m unlovable, I’m not sexy, I’m not a sexual being because who would want to have sex with something that looks like a man, but doesn’t have a penis? I can’t escape the message that I’m not enough, that I can’t be good enough, that I won’t ever win.
And that’s why I think it’s a privilege to get to unfollow people because you don’t like the message they send out. If a cis person doesn’t like that I think they’re terrible because they’re cis, if they’re hurt by that, if they can’t handle my “antagonistic behavior”? They can leave. They never have to see what I say again if they don’t want. And that is a privilege. Because I cannot unfollow the world. Not really.
