[Versus]

I understand that, Cuckoo. I can't speak for everyone, but I know I used to be like that in some ways, and still am in a lot of others. I'm actually guilty of hetero-splaining in that same instance you used as an example. Recently, even. You could even look in the personhood thread that Ape Decendant started and see that a lot of my argument was similiar to Varbane's, minus the bible thumping ignorant bullshit he tries to fall back on.

In that sense I can see where a lot of people get their arguments, but understanding that in the face of all of this crap doesn't really mean anything to me. It's not even to say that I feel particularly bad about it. The way I see it, my anger and frustration and immediate hostility is justified when I have to explain it until I'm blue in the face because some fuckhead thinks it's cool to patronize me for a fucking hour like I just don't get it or I'm just doing something wrong or it's only my mindset.