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?
College, Bernie, and Trump. I liked Bernie in 2016 and have very left wing parents, but still was very dumb in high school and swung between standard dem and gamer who repeated dumb phrases, but Trump woke me up to the world, and Chapo actually put me on the path I am on today.
