I ticked all the boxes in high school. Ironic-but-not-really fascist, incel, anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, pick a reaction, really. Now I’m happily married, father, Kinsey-1, reading theory, with growing class consciousness and looking to build solidarity with those people that a worse version of myself once dismissed as lesser or ungodly. It took leaving home, developing positive and loving male-male friendships, and being told that I was good enough and worth love irrespective of my accomplishments for me to start to develop the capacity to love others in the same way. Those who have traveled a similar path, what did it take for you?
I was raised a socialist haha. In high school I was a communist turned anarchist, then an anarchist through university, and now I’m… a leftist. Haha I just want to say to you, @PbSO4, and everyone else in here sharing your stories, that you did a real good in the world just by becoming who you are. And that I super appreciate you sharing your experiences, because exploring about how that happens for people is, like, the most important thing on the left rn imo.
Unfortunately, we’re all just glorified reformers of chuds and libs–but, that is the task history gave to us, so we gotta do our best with it :) :red-fist:
