What's the point of trading one set of rules about the "right" way to be for another?
I think that's what I'm struggling with, really- I've always identified outside of the norm, because of my queerness and other things too, and that identification comes with certain... not requirements, exactly, but expectations, and the unspoken conviction that if you're not Radical Like Us you're Doin It Rong.
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on 2008-11-24 05:11 am (UTC)I think that's what I'm struggling with, really- I've always identified outside of the norm, because of my queerness and other things too, and that identification comes with certain... not requirements, exactly, but expectations, and the unspoken conviction that if you're not Radical Like Us you're Doin It Rong.