PERSONAL OPINIONS

Hello again.

Now I am going to write what I think about the opinions, doesn't it sound funny?

Since I was very young, my family taught me that my opinion is valid, that I must always say it because it is my right. So I grew up with the idea that what I think is important, regardless of my color, my features, my gender, etc. However, it also taught me to respect the opinions of others: the rest are not obliged to agree with me nor I with them. But that this is solved with communication and dialogue.

This idea sounds great and flawless. But in daily life we ​​are exposed to multiple situations where our opinion is not taken into account or is not respected by factors such as those I mentioned before: living with a feminized body has made me go through a lot of invisibility and oppression. My features (but not my skin) have made me listen to very violent and disrespectful "personal opinions".

I think this is very important: we all have the right to express our opinion and to have it respected. But there are personal opinions that are nothing more than hate speech towards other people because they are simply different. Estimating that black people are inferior is not a personal opinion, determining that a poor person cannot study for free at an elite university is not an opinion, saying that someone would look better thinner is not an opinion. This is all violence and it is hate.

Over time I have learned that. And that these "personal opinions" do not matter to me.