for me being trans means i can& #39;t stop both-sideing-gender issues lol
it& #39;s also weird to think about like, how much does stuff apply to my past life?

i was in a situation vaguely like this and i had ZERO interest in sex with the girl and certainly did not feel & #39;entitlement& #39; to something i did not want https://twitter.com/ellegist/status/1315953283735916546?s=20">https://twitter.com/ellegist/...
so yeah i had this platonic crush on the girl who was kind of my best friend for a while and she didn& #39;t appreciate it and i did become kind of bitter over it after a while
it& #39;s kind of embarrassing to think back on, but it feels like i was mostly mislead by a culture that generally sort of implies that doing stuff for girls will get them to like you back.

she also wasn& #39;t clear enough in her refusal (but admittedly, i was clueless).
(like there was this whole thing where another friend of her would tell me to back off and back then it felt like she was just jealous and i didn& #39;t believe her)
i think my problem with this & #39;Entitled To Sex& #39; thing is that it frames the discourse in an extremely unhelpful way that& #39;s mostly useful to complain about guys but only ever makes them feel bad or get angry at you for suggesting it
OTOH a lot of guys *do* hold toxic attitudes towards women and it can be absurdly difficult to get them to acknowledge this
this is explicitly even true for the & #39;good& #39; guys, to a depressing extent
i& #39;m currently in a weird situation cuz i think i might still be more attracted to guys sexually but i& #39;ve also been So Turned Off by the constant low-level toxicity i& #39;ve received from guys that i might just mostly date women from now on?

(benefits of being bi)
but yeah -- at least IME -- i& #39;ve also over-estimated the amount of high-level toxicity based off of internet stories. it happens sometimes but not nearly as much as you& #39;d think.
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