Alright, so, I have a bunch of video ideas that are like too small to be full videos,
but I wanna talk about all of them in some sort of video format.
So this video is gonna be a very hectic... amalgamation… combination?
I don't know, it's gonna be like 20 different thoughts and opinions all jammed into one video.
So yeah, the first thing is: Sometimes it's okay to be mad.
Like, whenever I see discussions happening on the internet about certain topics, I'll
often see people on the same side being like, "Yes, I agree with you, but you're too angry.
You're not going to convince anyone if you're angry."
And like, I get that.
There are times where I'm really passionate or mad about something and I have to chill
and try to talk about the topic more calmly, because I know that yelling about it when
I'm mad isn't necessarily going to be productive.
But at the same time, I don't really like when people kinda put that on other people.
Like, sometimes people aren't trying to use the most effective method of persuasion
-- sometimes they're just mad because the thing they're arguing about affects them
very personally.
And that's okay.
Like if a certain topic just really sets you off, you don't necessarily have to be the
perfect, calmest person in the world when arguing about it.
If you want to and you can -- that's great!
But also you have every right to just be mad!
I really don't like the idea that we all have to emotionless robots catering to the
whims of awful people who need to be convinced of our humanity, you know?
Sometimes other people gotta step up and recognize why you're mad and have some compassion for you.
I don't know.
I know that's all very vague, it's just a thing that's been on my mind.
Secondly, this is just a brief reminder that trans girls can be tomboys just like cis girls.
Like, I think there's this huge pressure on trans women to be hyper feminine and to
never associate themselves at all with masculinity or androgyny or butshne -- butchness, and I think that
ends up putting lots of trans women in a really impossible situation.
Because like trans people wanna be taken seriously, they want people to believe that their gender
is what it is, and oftentimes that means performing gender roles appropriately because sometimes
people just can't see what gender is beyond gender roles.
Like there is a massive pressure on trans women to "try hard at being a woman" or
to "put effort into being trans" or whatever and it's all just bullshit.
Like being trans or being a woman doesn't mean performing femininity properly, it just
means identifying as a woman.
Like, cis women don't become boys when they wear pants or don't wear makeup or cut their hair short.
But the second a trans woman is wearing pants, not wearing makeup, and has short hair, suddenly
they get attacked for not being feminine enough.
It's such a double standard that's applied to trans women so much more harshly than it
is for cis women.
Anyway, my point is: trans women, you can be tomboys.
You can be butch.
You can be androgynous.
You don't have to be hyper feminine.
If you're just a super feminine trans girl, that's cool!
You do you!
There's nothing wrong with that!
But you don't *have* to be that.
Your gender isn't determined by what you wear or what makeup you put on your face.
You can be a butch trans woman.
You can be a tomboy trans woman.
Alright, the next thing is: Fuck grammar snobs.
Like, I'll admit, I used to be one of these people.
I used to make fun of people for not knowing the difference between they're, their, and there.
I used to think I was better than other people because I could memorize arbitrary grammar rules.
But like fuck that.
I was wrong to do that, and I can see that now.
Because honestly grammar doesn't fucking matter.
Like, if you can understand what someone is saying or writing or whatever, then they've
successfully used language to communicate -- so it really doesn't matter if like one
word was misspelled or something ridiculous like that.
And if you didn't understand what they were trying to say, just ask them to clarify.
Language is messy and confusing and not everything is going to be perfectly communicated every
single time, that's just unrealistic.
People have accents and dialect, people learn English as a second language -- like you have
to be understanding of the different backgrounds that people come from.
And in a similar vein, people have vastly different levels of education and even access
to education at all.
It just seems pretty shitty to make fun of someone for not following arbitrary grammar
rules when they weren't even taught those rules in the first place, didn't have access
to those rules, or just weren't surrounded by them constantly, you know?
Even for some people, grammar is much harder to learn than for other people -- everyone's
minds work differently.
The point is: don't be a grammar snob.
You're just being an asshole and hiding behind grammar as an excuse.
The next thing is like a US-specific thing, but like my new favorite meme is conservatives
accidentally arguing for banning all guns.
Like, recently, lots of people have been calling for a ban on assault-style rifles, and conservatives,
in an attempt to fight those bans, have been like, "Look at these rifles!
They're so similar to assault-style rifles but they're not covered under the ban!"
And it's like… okay, so let's ban those too.
Like it's just so funny that they think they have like the hottest take and meanwhile
they're arguing against themselves.
Like conservatives are literally posting photos of handguns and being like "You could kill
just as many people with this as you could with an assault-style rifle," and really
it's like okay then let's ban those murder weapons too.
Like we don't need any of those.
We don't need to give people cheap and easy access to things that are literally only designed for murder.
I'm so sick of the US and its ability to brush off consistent mass tragedies as just
an acceptable thing.
Tons of other countries have already figured this out, but it really seems like Americans
are just gonna continue to be okay with mass shootings.
I really hope some sort of gun control or ban is on the horizon, but it's hard to
be too hopeful for that kinda thing right now.
On a much lighter note, I wanna talk about one bit of advice that I hear a lot.
It's basically some variation of "You can't change others, you can only change
yourself," and it's like supposed to be inspirational or some shit -- people put it
in a cursive font and put it over a landscape photo on tumblr or whatever.
And like, I get it, you have a lot more influence over yourself than other people but like…
don't you want to change the world?
Don't you at least want to see the world improve?
And doesn't that by extension mean you want to change people?
I don't mean that you want to like force people to change, but doesn't aspiring for
progress mean that at least to some degree you want to be able to convince people to
change?
Like if you want the world to be less homophobic, you have to change people's perceptions
of gay people.
Even if you like just want people to be a little bit nicer to each other cause you think
it'd make the world a better place, like that requires changing people as well.
I just think that only striving to change yourself and never putting in any effort to
change others seems like you're content with the way that the world is right now,
and I just really don't think anyone can say that the world is in like peak prime condition right now.
Like there's so much we could improve on, and so I really don't think it's enough
to change yourself -- you should want to change the world.
Not that that's your obligation or anything, but like it just seems very limiting to tell
people that they can only change themselves -- if that makes sense.
It seems to me like it's just trying to tell people that their activism and their
fighting for change is ultimately pointless.
In a similar vein to all this, there's that famous "Be the change you want to see in
the world" quote, but like, you can't always be the change you want to see because
sometimes the change you want to see is so systemic that you can't embody it.
Like sure be the change you want to see in the world, but like you not owning a gun doesn't
stop other assholes from owning guns -- so you have to like go out there and try to make the change happen.
It won't just automatically happen because you're embodying it.
Change takes like real hard work.
Okay and the next thing is just some brief thoughts on immigration, mainly that anti-immigration
folks are just the worst.
Like I'm constantly in awe at how xenophobic people can be about immigrants.
I just genuinely feel like immigrants make a country better, and I can't wrap my head
around how people could be so furiously nationalistic or whatever that they just hate immigrants.
Like someone being an immigrant literally just means they were born in a different country,
like who fucking cares.
They're still people.
It just really seems like people use these completely arbitrary borders to deny people
humanity based on where they come from.
I don't know, I know this isn't very like cohesive or worded perfectly, and that's
why it's just one part of a larger video, but I just feel like it's something I think
about a lot, and so I wanted to talk about it.
I just don't know how to teach people compassion.
I don't know how to teach people how to care about people.
And so discussing immigration often just feels like we're going in circles because people
who hate immigrants really just do not have compassion for those people at all -- and
it's so frustrating.
Oh, and one more thing.
Non-binary people can have gender dysphoria.
Like dysphoria isn't only for binary trans people.
What I mean by that is like sometimes people can have dysphoria for like being called "he"
*and* for being called "she", so they prefer "they" pronouns or some other gender-neutral option.
And they can have dysphoria for being perceived as a man but also dysphoria for being perceived as a woman.
Like, gender isn't binary -- neither is dysphoria.
Some people legit just feel that they don't have a gender, or that they're in between
male and female, or that they're just outside of the binary.
And that's just as real of an experience as being a binary trans person, and it can
come with a similar kind of dysphoria.
Okay, I think that's all of the assorted opinions and thoughts I have for now.
Let me know in the comments if you like this sort of video, or if you have any specific
questions about any of those topics that I could expand on in a future video.
I'm not too sure about this format, but I thought it would be fun to try it out at least.
Remember that if you want to help me continue making these videos, you can subscribe by
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Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you next time!
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