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It's easy to see how it happened. It's natural for the underdogs to fight for other underdogs.
We fought for equality, for body autonomy, for gay marriage, for something close to equal pay, and we expected the fight to go on to the next generation for them to fight for more stuff.
And then the next generation fought for trans rights, for non-binary rights, for every single loud minority group; they fought for representation in media, for pronouns and for more labels to call themselves. And we backed them, because that's what you do. If it felt wrong, or shallow, we told ourselves it was because our ideas are outdated, and should be challenged.
And in the meantime, everything our generation and our mothers generation fought for start being stripped away and we're left blinking in a somewhat dull fashion - wondering how we went from being the strongest allies diversity could have, to being Karens, TERFs, and the great voiceless once more.
All this in the space of 15 years. Damn, but it's been a ride.
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