Society: “Life Was Easy Before All These Labels”
Easier for you perhaps, but not for them
“I don’t get it!” they cry from their armchairs and a position where they just don’t want to get it and have no intention of educating themselves. “I don’t get it!” they cry while pointing back to the good old days when genderfluid, demisexuality, pansexuality and trans weren’t labels people used to describe themselves, and neither were autist, adhd, or neurodivergent.
No, it was so much easier and better in “the good old days” when society chose labels for those people. This was a time when the comfort of the masses mattered more than the personal feelings of the people you were labelling and, in some cases, your comfort and belief in conformity mattered more than reality.
“Why does Sam Smith have to be a zhe or they! I don’t get it?!?!?!?!?! What’s wrong with using he or she?”
“Demisexuality isn’t a thing. You’re just like everyone else!”
“ME isn’t real. It’s just flu for yuppies!”
“Bisexual? Nah, they’re just sex mad.”
“ADHD? Kid just needs a good hiding to make them behave!”
“Dyslexia? No such thing. The kid is just stupid and lazy and won’t make anything of themselves in life.”
