I don’t want that man’s creepy extendo arm

I don’t necessarily think you’d be going back in the closet to everyone you came out to, but more likely cutting ties with people who take it badly and then playing it safe with a different crowd. Doing a reset somewhere else.

Wouldn’t surprise me though if a lot of the parents out there who take it badly are also “pray away the gay” types who think it can be “cured” with some extra Jesus power. So if you just say “Oh hey I went to church and I’m all better now,” they might be dumb enough to believe it, sad as it is.

Sometimes it’s just about doing what you can to survive. Being out opens you up to a lot of disadvantages and hardship depending on where you are and the resources available to you. For some who are struggling to get by and don’t see a way forward, an opportunity to move to a new place or start a new job where people don’t know you’re queer/trans is an unfortunate but reliable option to gain a degree of socioeconomic stability, ideally in preparation for coming out again later on with a better starting hand next time.

Sometimes people look at the hardship they experience and go into denial, figuring they can live permanently in the closet like people used to do and still have a somewhat fulfilling life. I think it’s sad, but sometimes folks just don’t have the fight in them to live as their true selves when all they want is to be seen as “normal”.

Oh hey, it’s the best FF14 minion.

Hell yeah, fuck Bush.