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Longer Tables: A potential transphobe changed their mind after learning!

Cadence: A transphobe was bitching in general chat about ‘the woke mob pretending there's not only two genders’ and I left an explanation of the reasons they are wrong, which led to this beautiful and wholesome exchange with someone I've never met before! (Doon was not the transphobe in question, that was Spider Byte!)

Image 1: User Doon says “tbh i thought there was only two genders until i saw this conversation” followed by a staring emoji, in response to my prior explanation of the difference in gender and sex.
Image 2: I reply “Hahaha, it's okay! It's way more important to be willing to learn than to be confidently wrong!”
Image 3: User Doon replies “True. A lot of people are so sure of themselves.”
Image 4: I reply “I remember when I was out to eat with my father once and we ended up getting on the topic of gender because my big sister is trans and he was struggling to understand her friends despite having nonbinary stuff explained to him and the look on his face when it finally clicked in his head was really relieving and exciting! I'm firmly for longer tables over higher walls. Civil discussion is a wonderful thing, even with people you struggle to understand! Sometimes, people may simply be wrong, but its worth a talk in the off chance you might learn about a perspective from which you've never looked at the world!”
Image 5: I state in reply to another person who expressed their agreement “One of the most memorable experiences of my life was when I was at a party with a libertarian who obviously disagrees with me on a lot of things, but we were both excited to learn about the way other people view the world and we had a wonderful chat while we took a walk together and explained our perspectives and philosophies and how we developed them and what they mean to us... it was a wonderful night.”
Seriously, longer tables, everyone!


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