I’ve seen these posts saying, in the words of one of them, “If your job requires you to go against your religious beliefs then perhaps it is time to change careers?” in reference to healthcare workers and government employees who want to deny services to lgbt ppl or others whom they condemn, and i just feel like those posts don’t attempt to understand internal logics at all
like, fundamentalist christian doctors don’t deny trans people medical care because they believe that somebody should provide the care but they just don’t want to be the one to do it. they deny the care because they don’t believe the person should receive care. Their refusal to provide care isn’t just “oops you’re in the wrong field,” as if they were a person with a peanut allergy working in a peanut factory. It is an intentional and calculated part of why they are in the field in the first place — to extend religious control and condemnation to the medical realm.
the pediatrician who spent an entire consultation telling one of my friends at 16 or 17 that he would go to hell if he kept choosing to be gay wasn’t just “not cut out for the job,” he was specifically in that job in order to do that particular thing. Kim Davis didn’t deny the gay couple a marriage license because she couldn’t personally do it, she denied them a marriage license because she thought that people like them should not get marriage licenses and that a clerk should deny them and by god she was going to be that clerk
Saying “if you can’t provide services then why are you in that job!!!” to fundamentalist christians almost always misses the point — that they are in that job specifically so they can selectively deny service
You all like and remember this video of a well-off woman getting dressed, and a few days ago, the same creative team (Crows Eye production) now brings us the working woman version. I’m sure you’ll all love it!
“You walk at home? Do you even need your wheelchair?”
Yes, because walking in my own house is different than walking class to class at school. I don’t carry a heavy backpack at home. I’m not on a tight schedule at home. I can sit on the ground at home. I can ask my parents or siblings to help me at home. I can crawl on my hands and knees at home. I can lie in the middle of the hallway at home. I can sit on counters and tables at home. I can bear a lot of pain at home. I can show that pain at home. I can collapse in the middle of crawling up the staircase at home.
Don’t tell me or anyone else where or when they need to use their mobility device
bUT SEX ED IN SCHOOL WILL CORRUPT THE CHILDREN IT’S OKAY THEIR PARENTS WILL TELL THEM
Im the parent putting doctor pepper in my kids bottle
Anyone else doubting the credibility of the “man with a /new/ spot on his chest” story?
Not so much. My mom started to develope dementia at 77 but she compensated so well that not even my sister believed me—I was living with her at the time.
This is the way the cracks on her cognition showed up. Weird stuff.
But I agree that the other things on this list feel like education issues and that one doesn’t.
Well ok I can believe something can happen like that with dementia and other similar conditions, but in that case, it shouldn’t be part of an add about people lacking sex Ed. Know what I mean?
Yep. But a lot of people don’t realize that about half of all people over the age of 80 show symptoms of dementia so whoever put this together was probably young and didn’t get it. They also put the thing about Dr Pepper and taking care of a baby isn’t really about sex ed either.
This is a ‘look at how stupid some people are (and how smart I am)’ kind of post. Not my favorite kind.
Man we really fucked over Native Americans. Imagine if Germany did TEN Holocausts and then hundreds of years later the Jews were STILL living in the work camps the Germans shuttled them to, with no money and a food shortage. Fucked up.
don’t make this comparison. jews are not a rhetorical tool. we are real people who really died.
the genocides of Indigenous people have been egregiously ignored. this is not the way to fix that.
As many of y’all know, I live in an extremely abusive household with controlling, manipulative, and cruel parents. My mother is particular is prone to violence, and the constant fear is wearing on my mental health.
Is there anyone in Houston around the Bellaire area that’s willing to let me come hang out / stay nights just to get away for a bit? It’s not urgent right now but I’d like to have people to turn to if things go wrong again. I’m 19 and I don’t drink nor do drugs, and I can drive myself. Feel free to message me. I may make a more elaborate post later.
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