It's not a hot girl summer and I refuse to be involved in one

I've been called difficult my whole life. I've been told in ways both direct and indirect that I'm hard to get along with. Even when I was a kid, my teacher used to tell my parents that I didn't "play well with others." Whatever, it's not something I've ever felt particularly bothered by, save for the fact that my friends seemed to think that I was difficult. That was a little tough. <br><br>But to be honest, I'm not even a little bit difficult. I'm easy going, really. I don't like conflict. I try not to talk about things that are "controversial" unless I know in advance that I won't disagree with you about it. I'm a pretty easy person to get along with, I believe. <br><br>That said, I have recently discovered something that I am difficult about. That is the term "hot girl summer." I've refused to discuss this term with two different people in the past few days. It makes me angry. It makes me sad. It makes me feel hopeless. <br><br>I think the term "hot girl summer" is homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic. I'm appalled by the term itself and I'm even more appalled by people who use it and seem not to understand that this terminology is literally a slur. <br><br>So... It's not a hot girl summer and I refuse to be involved in one. I know I just singled out two people that I won't name, but it seems particularly important to point out that there is literally nothing hot about you if you are participating in impugning an entire group of people at the expense of their very humanity. You are not cool. You are not edgy. You are not funny. You are not the fun girl. <br><br>You're exactly not "hot, period."