Focus on blind rage
Aug. 23rd, 2005 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexThis URL came across on a humor list I frequent:
http://www.focusonyourchild.com/develop/art1/A0000684.html
My reaction wasn't "aren't those fundamentalists funny" but rather "I will now reach out and choke the life out of anyone who messes up their children with this crap." I mean like I want to feel this jerk's windpipe slowly crush under my fingers as his eyes (because I know it was a guy) bug out. It was a bit startling to experience that reaction.
I guess it's part of becoming a parent. I am watching my own children play around with gender, roles, and identity. I and they know other kids who wear whatever clothes they please, have hair whatever length they please, and often they're able to identify and freely express their emotions. Sometimes they roughhouse and other times they don't like it and would rather sit and make pretty pictures. THIS IS GOOD! Hello? Important! DO NOT MESS THIS UP, YOU NARROW-MINDED FRIGHTENED DOGMATISTS! Most especially don't get your crap on my kids.
Sometimes the heterosexual agenda depresses me. Today's flavor, I think, is barely suppressed fury.
http://www.focusonyourchild.com/develop/art1/A0000684.html
My reaction wasn't "aren't those fundamentalists funny" but rather "I will now reach out and choke the life out of anyone who messes up their children with this crap." I mean like I want to feel this jerk's windpipe slowly crush under my fingers as his eyes (because I know it was a guy) bug out. It was a bit startling to experience that reaction.
I guess it's part of becoming a parent. I am watching my own children play around with gender, roles, and identity. I and they know other kids who wear whatever clothes they please, have hair whatever length they please, and often they're able to identify and freely express their emotions. Sometimes they roughhouse and other times they don't like it and would rather sit and make pretty pictures. THIS IS GOOD! Hello? Important! DO NOT MESS THIS UP, YOU NARROW-MINDED FRIGHTENED DOGMATISTS! Most especially don't get your crap on my kids.
Sometimes the heterosexual agenda depresses me. Today's flavor, I think, is barely suppressed fury.
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Date: 2005-08-23 07:45 pm (UTC)For those not quite getting it, the url site "focusonyourchild.com" appears to be a production of Focus on the Family, an invidious promoter of the heterosexual agenda.
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Date: 2005-08-23 07:48 pm (UTC)