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Quatrarius  ·  12 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage

    But also maybe people feel more impetus to do it because we're getting stuck.

this is insightful. the pandemic was the "egg cracker" for a lot of trans people - lots of time alone with yourself, having to deal with being in your own skin without distractions, not having the daily pressure to keep up appearances - i think in our "atomized world" or whatever people call it, this is common. it goes for more gays in general too: if you're a prospective lesbian and you don't get instalocked by Some Guy because you got teen pregnant and you can't open a bank account by yourself, you actually have the chance to develop your own identity instead of just repressing all your life