She held up her hand as if she had been badly scalded and said that my attempt to mansplain in the context of my white, cisgender privilege was repugnant to her and that she frankly wasn’t sure that even an immediate apology would erase the trauma my words had caused but that if I wrote an essay asking for forgiveness for my tone-deafness to the LGBTQ community as well as people of color, minorities, and the non-able-bodied, that might be a start.
I want to quit now. I read books for their beauty and insight. I don't have any hope of insight from a white male author who punches down on trans, hard-of-hearing, people of color just to get the cheap laugh: "Man, historically marginalized people just expext SO much from white men like me, amirite?"
