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?
Being trans, like in high school I was all over that Amazing Athiest shit. SJW ANTITHEIESM nonsense, Then I came out as trans and a lot of that reactionary shit started to calm down. From anti-feminist -> egalitarian -> feminist -> socialist -> anarchist -> egoist anarchist. A big influence on my politics was this anarchist writer / journalist called Dr. Bones. Stirner meets Hunter S. Thompson. He was later outed as a creep towards trans people but I still value the politics I learned from him. I know egoism is kinda a meme but I REALLY fucking vibe with it.
Being trans opened me up to the “other side” since I was no longer the white cis straight majority I basically went, “oh shit there is injustice”
