That's the thing, she wasn't. She didn't even know anything about these things until I started teaching her about them a few years ago. She was fine about it until she got into fucking conspiracy theorist bullshit headed by an extreme nationalist right-winger on the internet. Ever since she started listening to him, our home life has gone to shit. Arguments all the damn time, having to listen to this asshole spout his uneducated garbage every day and her repeat it, etc.
He's a manipulative prick who uses emotional triggers to bend people towards nationalism and bigoted views of minorities. You know, the whole "homosexuals = pedophiles", "immigrants are taking all our jobs", "Britain is becoming un-British", "our top level services and government are Satanists", "the socially progressive are corrupting our children", "Communists and Socialists are rising again and seek to destroy our great nation from the inside" etc. She even thinks now that moving away from gender roles and the acceptance of non-binary and non-straight people are part some big agenda to make people mentally confused and damage the country.
And she trusts this dickbag and what he says over me, because I "haven't researched the same things as him", "he's a retired naval officer, why wouldn't he tell the truth?" and "oh, but there's all these people in the community saying the same thing and they can't all be wrong". I used to think she was smarter than this.
And now to hear her say that she thinks I "want to be a girl" (and have a non-straight sexuality) because I'm mentally damaged was a huge emotional blow to me. I suspect next time we talk will be heated and leave me in tears again.
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