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My human nature wanted to rail against what you were saying at a certain point (especially when you called out feminists and leftists) since I can relate to your target audience, but yeah. Good words.
FWIW, I am very much a leftist. I'm mostly an anarchist, although I also recognize that having a large, diverse, functioning society is extremely difficult--bordering on impossible--without some degree of authoritarian control. (And I've also seen just how paralyzed radically democratic groups can get, when they have to vote on everything.) I want the people on the left, the people that want a more equal society, to do better, because I think we can be better.
Being kind to people--not fake kindness, not kindness with an agenda, but just kind--can go a long ways for leftists. For women, well, I'm not a woman. But having women as friends and them being open with me about what they experienced as women went a long way towards opening my eyes.
And, FWIW, I started from a position of being deeply conservative, very religious, and having absolutist views on gender identity and gender roles, and the godly nature of capitalism.