Singular they/them has existed longer than gendered pronouns… And people intuitively seem to use it when referring to a person with unknown gender, yet when it comes to trans people using it as such, suddenly it is confusing…

I really don’t think it’s as much of an issue as people think it is… The usage is EXACTLY the same, it just refers to different things depebding on context.

• Toxic Positivity: “Everything is always great” and the unspoken rule to never talk about your issues.
• Mental health issues not being taken seriously and/or treatment being forced on you
• Alcohol culture: “if we haven’t had a beer together, i don’t know you”
• meetings. As a programmer i can be super productive, but then i’ll be interrupted by a meeting… and that meeting is an hour long… completely stripping my concentration and now i gotta get it back up…
• retro-meetings … talking about what has been done in the last week… and what we liked and what we hated… i never know what to say “yeah i finished shit” or “i hate working with this shit” but then you have to elaborate…

I guess the appeal of The Boys to me is that it goes more into how “Super Heroes”. Would be exploited in a capitalist war fuelled society like the US. What happens when the people that are currently in power, would get access to such a thing. When it becomes about profit and image rather than the actual good of society. No sugarcoating whatsoever.

I mean that is kinda the plot of The Boys.