✌🏾Two things can be true at the same time

ALSO can you do me a solid? (786 words | 3 min 26 secs read time)

There tends to be a stark contrast between shallow social media portrayals and the profound narratives that unfold in real conversations.

This isn’t news, of course. Social media doesn’t lend itself to nuance. Still, for some reason, every couple of weeks, I get a reminder that brings this point home.

This week, it was the social media coverage around the Armchair Expert Podcast interview of Johnathan Van Ness. Johnathan Van Ness is best known as one of the Fab Five from the Queer Eye television series. They are also a hairstylist, TV personality, and podcaster. During the interview, Dax Shephard, the host of Armchair Expert, and Johnathan ended up having a vulnerable, raw, and honest conversation about transgender rights.

At the outset of the interview, it was clear that Johnathan and Dax shared a mutual admiration for each other. Their conver…