I can totally relate and sympathize with an up and coming professional having to virtue signal just to survive in clown world, but what did you mean by this?
my friend... gets visibly angry when I speak heresy
Is that in private or in public? Have you asked why he is reacting that way? If you feel free to "speak heresy" then he should get enough of a confidence boost in your presence to do the same (or just smile and nod) - unless he looks down on you and would prefer to be friends with other fake people.
I can't tell if he's just really good at pretending to be mad at le heckin transphobia or if he's mad at me risking revealing our power level, but he's definitely not happy when I do it.
He's also in a position to lose much more if he gets unpersoned, whereas I'm really not. There's no way he's ever going to be open with his beliefs, at least not while troons are the de facto priesthood class.
I can totally relate and sympathize with an up and coming professional having to virtue signal just to survive in clown world, but what did you mean by this?
Is that in private or in public? Have you asked why he is reacting that way? If you feel free to "speak heresy" then he should get enough of a confidence boost in your presence to do the same (or just smile and nod) - unless he looks down on you and would prefer to be friends with other fake people.
I can't tell if he's just really good at pretending to be mad at le heckin transphobia or if he's mad at me risking revealing our power level, but he's definitely not happy when I do it.
He's also in a position to lose much more if he gets unpersoned, whereas I'm really not. There's no way he's ever going to be open with his beliefs, at least not while troons are the de facto priesthood class.