/lit/ - Literature

Because people's personal insecurities make them desperate to cling onto old conceptions of gender. So much of their identity is grounded in this, and they fear what might happen if they lacked any clear waymarks to inform their behaviour and self-expression. So as a defence mechanism they lash out against the people who challenge this orthodoxy as heretics (trannies, enbys etc.). It's all just a giant cope.

how to deal with the insight that you'll never experience mutual, romantic love?