watching the leftism leave their body when you tell them that making the world a better, friendlier place for children is the responsibility of everyone. everyone. even if children are annoying to you, even if you dont ever want kids or you got whatever associated trauma, you have to figure out a way to make your encounters with children a good experience for them. its not optional. its a duty, like eating food or taking the trash out. as soon as you exist in their periphery, you are defining their world for them. you are helping to sculpt their idea of reality. which is, among other things, one of the best reasons to be really weird or really gay or really lesbian or really trans or really whatever-unrepresented-minority you can be while in public. because you are showing them what a person can be and thats both really important and really cool
