Yes, assuming, because you never got an EEG that measured which parts of your brain were active while you slept. Which, wait… Scientists have actually done! Wow, surprise 😐. Who could’ve known it.

Fucking dumbass.

E: Hey that’s new, getting downvoted for correcting unscientific wishful thinking magical xmas-land-mumbo-jumbo. Enjoy your minerals and tarot cards, you litany of buffoons 🙄…

I don’t need to read stupid questions like yours anymore, it’s bliss.

Masking will prevent harm that directly coincides with who you are. It creates a defensive layer.

The het expectations are nowhere near as bad as the risk of harm, physical or emotional, and you can’t convince me otherwise when there are over 70 countries where my (and assumedly your) existence results in the death penalty…

As for the mental prison argument, that’s just life… You can’t live life with the expectations that things will go your way, and actively harm yourself with negative outlooks.

As someone who essentially does the same thing you mentioned about being open to select individuals in my circle, your view is kind of astounding.

I do mask, and so do many people, who are probably happier for it.

I would live in a prison of anguish if I was openly gay and every stare at work or in public could mean judgement or something derogatory.

There’s something in data science that you learn at the very beginning, which is that you can’t observe the counterfactual.

That means you can’t base your data on the possibility of what would have happened had you chosen differently.

What you’re doing is assuming that your (and other people’s) lives would have been better had they been open about their sexuality.

I don’t know where you live, but there is no country with a 0% chance of being assaulted/discriminated against for being LGBT+.

So your assumption that things would have been better is a misguided nostalgia at best, fallaciously wrong at worst.

Edit: gotta love the Reddit brainless downvote bandwagon that’s going on. Nice hive mind.

“Yeah so for this unmeasurable and ephemeral thing that I myself just called ‘fleeting’ you should totally act non-het and potentially put yourself in mortal danger because I, an internet stranger, said so.”