No one ever told us what it’s like because we’re men. We’re not supposed to have feelings, especially feelings adjacent to fear. We’re meant to be rocks and shells of human beings.
I mean, my parents survived Russian occupation of Poland… And my grandparents experienced WW2, invasion by Axis powers and betrayal by the West after the war which led to the Russian occupation of Poland… I think it’s a bit disingenuous to say we’re going through more.
No one ever told us what it’s like because we’re men. We’re not supposed to have feelings, especially feelings adjacent to fear. We’re meant to be rocks and shells of human beings.
Learning to cry again after my transition has been incredibly liberating.
Our parents’ generations also didn’t go through anything even remotely as bad as what we’re dealing with today.
Except, you know… the imminent nuclear threath of the Cold War and the Chernobyl disaster.
They had very effective placebos to deal with it, like “duck and cover” and “Jesus”
I mean, my parents survived Russian occupation of Poland… And my grandparents experienced WW2, invasion by Axis powers and betrayal by the West after the war which led to the Russian occupation of Poland… I think it’s a bit disingenuous to say we’re going through more.