'Françaises, Français': Why the French language need not be so sexist

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44. Just my personal experience

It's complicated. The weirder Twitter activism gets, the more conservative I feel about things. And the thing is, I'm really not conservative at all. I'm crazy progressive. I don't preach mere tolerance. Acceptance has to be a thing for everyone's physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

But some of this stuff. I just look at it and blink. I can't tell what is serious and what is parody anymore. I've become a kind of anti-woke progressive. And when I say anti-woke, I don't mean let racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia slide wherever it is encountered. Just that we've started entering a kind of . . . silly season in online activism. "If you thought this made no sense, well how about this shit!"

It's really hard to articulate my thoughts on this issue, because it's a little confusing. Not confusing. It just works against the grain of my logic, rationale, and common sense. A lot of Twitter activism rubs wrong against how I've spent the first half of my adulthood fighting for equality and self-determination. Self-determination was always ever my goal. And we're kind of entering an area where people are told that they can't self-determine or else they're a kind of -ist or phobic in some way.

Like I said, it's hard to articulate. But the direction of the last few years in some quarters of woke activism aren't sitting quite right with me.