I've taken time to reflect on this whole interaction.

You entered my essays with an extremely narrow-minded view and consistently refused to consider my personal experience. I granted you respect, shared my lived experience, and offered insight into a community you only understand at a surface level. In return, you responded with condescension and dismissiveness. I engaged in thoughtful discussion, yet you replied with quips, making it clear you had no interest in truly reflecting on what I was presenting.

I don’t think I can make you understand that drag is an art form that nurtures our community as the world burns. We are not the ones setting the fire or fanning the flames, we are among those getting burned. I only wish you could focus on the root of the bigotry rather than on a community that is subjected to it. It's sad to me that you turn on your kin like this rather than focus your energy on those who actually oppress us all. This scapegoating of drag culture is a deliberate distraction from the real sources of harm. It is disappointing to see you direct your energy at a marginalized community instead of the forces actually responsible. I wish you would recognize that instead of echoing rhetoric designed to harm us.

After a lengthy back-and-forth, I asked you to sit with your feelings because your words were becoming insensitive, bordering on cruel. Instead of reflecting, you chose to dismiss me with a condescending 'Hun,' and questioned whether I was simply seeking the last word—as if that wouldn’t be my right in response to an essay I posted in the first place. Getting the last word is not my goal, but shutting down a conversation that had turned increasingly ad hominem absolutely was. You were not engaging with me in good faith, and I have every right to respond to that however I see fit. Telling you to "sit with your feelings" was nowhere near the energy you were throwing at me.

You ignored every point I presented, instead reiterating the same easily refuted arguments while I addressed each of yours. At some point, I just didn’t want you to keep talking to a brick wall. This is my space, and I have no interest in continuing a conversation that lacks good faith. I am open to genuine questions and concerns, but not to an endless feedback loop.

At this point, I have said all I need to say. If you choose to respond, I hope it is with genuine reflection rather than dismissal. If not, then you will have the last word, though that was never my concern to begin with.