diff --git a/hybris/quit.md b/hybris/quit.md index e61976e..6a895e8 100644 --- a/hybris/quit.md +++ b/hybris/quit.md @@ -7,32 +7,33 @@ Don't force yourself again and again You don't have to be a man -and to this day I have no idea how the world sees me -the weird looks are just normal to me -I'm surprised when I realize it is not normal for others +to this day I have no idea how the world perceives me +the weird looks are simply normal to me +I'm surprised when I realize that it is not normal for others to be looked at, to be othered -I don't even know why people look at me like this - is it the gender, the mask, the bare feet, the nerdiness, or the piercings and tattoos? -people say they care a lot for the first impression they make upon others -and I just have no way to know what exact part of me is weirding them out on first glance +I can't even tell why they look at me like this - is it the gender, the mask, the bare feet, the nerdiness, or the bad tattoos? +people say they care a lot about the first impression they make upon others +but how am I supposed to tell which exact part of me is weirding them out on their first glance I stopped caring a long time ago I argued with people about constructivism for very long and it's hard for me to accept when I'm wrong -because my whole life people assumed my gender doesn't exist +because +my whole life people simply assumed my gender doesn't exist and every time I questioned their world it felt like I had to defend my existence -so no surprise I fight to tooth and nail even in harmless discussions +that's why I fight to tooth and nail even in harmless discussions because such a harmless thing as not understanding the world as constructed by intersubjective discoursive actions -translated to me as not understanding me as I am +tells me you're not taking me serious as I am -I think they don't understand either what they hate about me +I think they don't understand either what part of me bothers them just as I feel attacked by their basic world view they feel threatened by my identity, it undermines theirs because all the violence we do to ourselves to fit in with society I don't hide it, I turn my insides out and this revolutionary act -threatens the hard-earned peace they made with patriarchy -the concessions they made to normal society, +threatens the hard-earned peace they made with patriarchy, +the concessions they made to normal society. the parts of themselves which they supressed urge to come out as they see how needlessly they were sacrificed