This. I don't want a Day, I want to be able to use the facilities that match my gender identity, not have to worry about whether I'll be mistreated by medics if I'm in an accident and they find out I'm trans, not to risk prosecution if a former partner claims I didn't tell them my birth sex...
...to have guaranteed access to the medicine I need regardless of my financial status, not to have to worry that I'll be targeted for extra groping when I travel, to have my essential documents reflect my lived reality, and to be able to marry as my lived gender without additional barriers.
And I know lots of people didn't want to return to the office but most people didn't fight it that hard and, again, many explicitly associated it with the worst parts of 2020/1.
By which I mean I know lots of people who liked temporary cycle lanes & pedestrianisation of certain roads but didn't think they could work except in conditions where people were mostly working from home and not travelling far/often. Showing them it could work without those restrictions is a threat.
Government won't do things like mandate employers to facilitate WFH wherever possible & reduce car dependency even temporarily because people won't want to go back. In 2020/1 it was mixed up with lockdowns, fear of infection, etc. Now it would be concurrent with bad times but not contingent on them.
The way my brain immediately turned this into "y'reet?"
Giving myself 3 out of 4 by defining the terms "prestigious" and "my field" extremely loosely. (So loosely that it includes the time I won a nutcracker shaped like a squirrel for cheating in a debate.)
When people say "people who care about this issue (road violence, covid mitigations, etc.) are right but they're really annoying," they're almost always just projecting their own cognitive dissonance.
Cool that the reaction to pedestrians getting terrible "advice" instead of making roads safe is "that's just how it is" when the reaction to drivers receiving far more practical & effective advice on saving fuel to address a problem which, whatever anyone does now, is baked in is "fuck you; fix it."
Cool that the reaction to pedestrians getting terrible "advice" instead of making roads safe is "that's just how it is" when the reaction to drivers receiving far more practical & effective advice on saving fuel to address a problem which, whatever anyone does now, is baked in is "fuck you; fix it."
