what you wrote about not having to speak about your struggles and flagellate yourself all the time for others to have basic respect... yeah.
Yeah. It's something that really makes me mad. A person doesn't need to be sad or in pain or part of a minority or anything to deserve basic respect. You don't need to find reasons to be kind, it should be the default.
When it comes to VB it's always people saying "oh he's leaving Merc, how sad, I really feel for him now" when before they were baying for his blood. It makes me sick tbh. People shouldn't have to open their wounds for the world to see in order to be treated with kindness.














