Hah, nice story. For me it was a goddam sticker. I was on my uni campus during the whole campus rape culture BS and there was this one bathroom right next to my office. Mens room, I wasn't out yet. One day I walk into the bathroom and in the middle of the mirror is this fucking sticker that says "The Average man will rape 2.4 women while attending this school. Be a part of the solution." It was right in the middle of the mirror. I couldn't even wash my hands without it being right at eye level. I had never even dreamed of touching a girl inappropriately in my entire life; I didn't even hang out with girls because I was so terrified of being falsely accused of impropriety. And now someone decided to put a fucking sticker in my face basically calling me a rapist and demanding I repent without even bothering to know who I was. It made me so insanely mad.
So I decided: Screw em. I decided I would do literally anything in my power to end their unjust persecution of innocent boys. I would make sure that that sticker backfired on whoever put it on their as hard as I possibly could. Never found out who it was, and I guess it doesn't really matter. Ironically, I stopped using that bathroom shortly thereafter when I transitioned, but I went it one last time to check and it was still up almost a year later. For me that was it, the message was sent and there was no going back.
Hah, nice story. For me it was a goddam sticker. I was on my uni campus during the whole campus rape culture BS and there was this one bathroom right next to my office. Mens room, I wasn't out yet. One day I walk into the bathroom and in the middle of the mirror is this fucking sticker that says "The Average man will rape 2.4 women while attending this school. Be a part of the solution." It was right in the middle of the mirror. I couldn't even wash my hands without it being right at eye level. I had never even dreamed of touching a girl inappropriately in my entire life; I didn't even hang out with girls because I was so terrified of being falsely accused of impropriety. And now someone decided to put a fucking sticker in my face basically calling me a rapist and demanding I repent without even bothering to know who I was. It made me so insanely mad.
So I decided: Screw em. I decided I would do literally anything in my power to end their unjust persecution of innocent boys. I would make sure that that sticker backfired on whoever put it on their as hard as I possibly could. Never found out who it was, and I guess it doesn't really matter. Ironically, I stopped using that bathroom shortly thereafter when I transitioned, but I went it one last time to check and it was still up almost a year later. For me that was it, the message was sent and there was no going back.
STANDING OVATION
For me it's not one thing but thousands and thousands of things in over two decades which grow worse and worse.
We can generally boil it down to playing out of an intense ever growing jealous hatred combined with scapegoating of native straight white males.
That hatred is rapidly approaching murderous.