The entire centrist establishment writing fan fiction about how Kirk's life was dedicated to building bridges while assiduously ignoring the movement-wide conservative effort to incite a pogrom against trans people.

Anyways, reading this book as a person who grew up within this framework is only a little retraumatizing. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand our moment better.

This comparison just so well encapsulates the way some Christians view anyone that does not bow to their narrow view of how people can and should behave. They will force their values on you and mutilate you to fit into the role they have decided you should be in.

Basically, Procrustes was a villain who would invite people into his home to spend the night and then mutilate his guests into exactly fitting the bed that they lay in, either by cutting or stretching.