Feeling ranty. How the hell did our generation of punks and goths and non-conformists produce a generation that collapses in hysterics when people won’t validate them? Be whoever you want to be, live your life however you want to live it but don’t expect everybody to validate you

We fought against real bigotry and discrimination. To defend same sex attraction, to allow gay couples the same rights as everyone else. To legalise their relationships and marriages. We protested against racists and facists.

We didn’t conform to expected norms and I find current thinking so regressive. I loved ‘boys’ toys and sport and maths and physics. My best friends were boys.

If anybody had told me that I couldn’t do something or might be a boy because I liked these things I’d have laughed in their faces and asked them how the fuck toys or sport or subjects like maths were for one sex or the other.

Boy George and Marilyn and all the other non-conformists lived their lives however they wanted and didn’t give a shit who liked it or not. Everybody and nobody is non-binary. We are all just people with likes and dislikes and whatever you like or dislike doesn’t affect your sex.

I feel as if we are back in the 1950s and that the 60s and 70s never happened. These little conformists running around dying their hair blue and thinking this is so new. Been there, done that but with far more pizzazz and we didn’t give a damn what anyone thought.