It must be difficult to have missed such essential experiences, and to have been forbidden to have normal, human interactions with your peers.

Welling-meaning parents have a LOT to answer for sometimes. People default to strange behaviors when they’re trying to play in a rigged system.

I just wrote about what a mistake it is to think that individual behavior is going to change structural inequality, in reference to gender. But it applies equally to race, immigration, sexual orientation, whatever. Where there is discrimination, a separate peace is never victory.