It feels like you’ve woken up in a burning building and you’re trying to shake the people you love, trying to wake them up, but they all just turn away from you, one by one, pulling the covers over their heads as the roof starts collapsing…
(h/t to BILLSan345@spinster.xyz)
I really didn't appreciate how powerful propaganda was/is until the past few years. It really is easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled. I'm also ever mindful that I, too, could also be in the thrall of propaganda.
When I tell people that rapists with intact male bodies are in women's prisons, they don't believe me. When I prove it to them, they shake their heads. Then we repeat the conversation six months later, because they forget, they don't want to think about it.