I'm so tired and scared

I feel like the person in the first few stanzas of the "first they came for" poem, trying to get the people in the last stanza to pay attention and realize that they'll end up on the chopping block too.

I feel like I am not succeeding.

Watch out, the tabbies and calicos will corrupt your children!

Three or four times now I've seen Twitter hide cat picture tweets because of "sensitive material".

And no, none of them used the word "pussy", before you ask.

(Why does Wiki's page on the complex link to BPD?)

Depending on whether I've more recently mentioned being kinky or being asexual, conservatives of all kinds (including radfems, in fact, radfems are the worst offenders here) will throw "prude"/"frigid" and "slut"/"pervert" at me.

Schrodinger's virgin/whore, I guess.

Why yes I LOOOOOVE being bossed around by someone who controls my livelihood!

You know I'm only applying to this job because I need money. I know you know. You probably know I know you know.

Can we please cut the crap about why I want this job and discuss something like "what are your qualifications" and "how well would you fit with the team" that's actually relevant, please?

Me: confusing everyone since the early nineties!

I spent a couple of hours in a place where:

a) no one knew my pronouns
b) no one knew how to pronounce my name
c) no one wanted to offend me by making a mistake or asking for clarification

So there was a lot of "this is [mumble], [mumble between a h and a sh]e will be joining us for today".

I'm in a good mood today, so I found this funny instead of frustrating.

We've known for millennia that the world is round, Karen

Having lived, at various points, in four different time zones, I've come to the conclusion: people in the US Eastern Time Zone are the fucking worst at remembering that other time zones exist.

"OMG why were you posting at like 4AM?!" Because I was in Europe, Karen, UTC +2. Surely you've heard of Europe?

I can make a very long list! Don't make me do it!

How many non-men (genderqueer people who have masculinity in their gender or their presentation, transfeminine folks, women attracted to men, probably others but my brain is not cooperating) need to speak out and explain "all men are trash as a political stance hurts me" before we finally get fucking through to people?

Or human interaction in general, TBH

A lifetime of being told "you're worthless, and believing anything else on the subject makes you horrendously stuck-up and selfish" prepared me very poorly for the job-seeking world.