Can we retire from the expression “the kids are okay?” Because I am at my morning coffee shop and I just met and hated a 20-year-old cis het white guy, Let’s call him Brad, that believes emotions are an inefficiency that only inhabits stupid people and I tripped the bastard with my cane because he was explaining the optimum way a woman should sit at her Linux laptop computer so LLM systems can't malfunction because of her “bigger than average breasts.” She bought me a drink after she saw me trip the bastard. We're exchanging anime shows we like. I'm telling her I'm new to anime and that I'm a Romance writer.

“Good, she says, her voice dripping with that specific kind of relief that's refreshing, “we need more men taking Romance writing seriously.”