Up late doing some pretty depressing research.
Human beings can do such wonderful things.
We have created so much that improves life for all.
And yet... we also have *such* a history of doing harm, then rationalizing the harm we do with claims to upholding "sacred" traditions.
The history of things done to feminized bodies is truly the stuff of nightmares.
We've come a long way out of superstition in a *very* brief period of time.
And we're always closer to backsliding than we might think.
Culture is a semi-ratchet.
It continues to turn, and is hard to go backward. Yes with enough force, it can. Yet this force is observable long before it has any effect, so we can counter it.
That is the one gift and tool with which we can arm ourselves: foreknowledge of what's to come, if we but falter in our pursuit of change.
Thank you, Corlin.