Yeah, agreed. Could expound on this a lot but don't wanna blow up @elbowdeepinahorse.bsky.social's thread. Be well!

I hope one day she can shake off the desire to fit her world into her view, and see that her view needs to change. That you can get butterflies over someone and it's real, even if she doesn't get it. So be you. And we'll hope she learns to see you.

It took me a long time of listening and learning. Both to my own heart and others. My journey was accepting that how I was raised was full of bias and bigotry. And that stung. It meant changing my entire worldview.
If your sister hasn't had that moment yet, all I can recommend is being you.

I grew up heavily conservative and was also taught it was a choice, and believed it. More than that, christianity also taught me it was a bad choice because they were mislead and deceived.
But seeing the negative attitudes, the obsession toward the lgbtq community felt wrong. It was hard to change..

Text-based game via mail. Get a postcard with the premise, choose an action and mail it back. Hank hand-writes all the responses. Sometimes he's spilled coffee on the cards.

This is the first time I've heard it described this way and having been part of acquisitions, rings true. Been looking at the actions being taken and abhorring the social/moral impact but this lens of Trump's govt acting like a business gives me better context to digest, shape & share opinion. Ty.