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I posted a while ago showing the same shirt. I got called cringe. Whatever, my trans kid likes it. Yours is dope.
Us old folks can't do anything about being cringe most of the time, but we can be supportive and protective of our kids. I think you'd agree that that's the bigger win here, so good job fellow parent.
The secret is to embrace having an impaired give a shit. Be excellent to your people, and be excellent to strangers. Stop being excellent when they reneg on the dues for our common social contract, but don't let them stop you.
You get it!
Having principles you stuck to that are helpful to the world is never cringe, it's a display of feeling of inferiority when someone critiques you for having a virtue. They feel that their comfortable bed of lies is threatened when someone shows that it's not societaly acceptable to be a dick, while they lived their lives accepting that they may sometimes be allowed certain priviledges if they conform to the "norm". I hope one day we get the world to the place where virtues are rightly celebrated instead of being called cringe.
I'm sorry but you can't be both cringe and named NielsBohron :p
More seriously you (and your OP) sound like the kind of parent a lot of us wished we had c:
We may be cringe, but that makes us free.
It is cringe because we are old and they are young but it's wholesome! I love it!
I fully support trans and queer people.
But I think any t-shirts with this kind of language is cringe as fuck. It just makes me think of maga morons and their stupid gun slogans.
It's like a billboard for "I'm a douche, steer clear"
Anyway, just my two cents people can do as they please.
Those other guys are cringe because they're being tough guys for the sake of being tough guys. It's some weird lack of self confidence thing.
This guy is threatening to protect people from abuse.
I expect you see the difference.
About dozen or so trans folks have come up to me, including my kid, and said they like and appreciate my shirt. Their opinion means more than yours ever will.
Just their collective 24 cents and we can allow you to behave the way you want too.
lol ok buddy
I'm not your buddy, pal.
I am not your pal, ntsc.
I'm not your NTSC, SECAM.