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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Eh.
Date: 2005-08-23 08:12 pm (UTC)In fact, I'm not feeling any rage at all.
When these peoples' stand is so obviously ignorant and divorced from the facts (with a few exceptions, such as the notion that "homosexuality is rarely if ever chosen"), I can't give it any credence.
And hey, if the predominant result is that they keep their kids away from known pedophiles in their families, some good may come of it.
Re: Eh.
Date: 2005-08-23 08:41 pm (UTC)Yes, these people are peddling the worst kind of ignorance.
But it's important to respond.
Scientists decided to take a tack of non-involvement WRT "intelligent design." We've seen that the Kansas Board of Education has viewed this silence as an endorsement of intelligent design.
By not standing up and calling these idiots to task for their fallacies, the interpretation is "well, I don't have a good rebuttal, so you must be right."
Re: Eh.
Date: 2005-08-23 09:25 pm (UTC)I see not much use in taking these people on head-to-head. Instead, we fight for recognition of the rights of people who are being denied them, and we bitch-slap these ignorami when they actively get in the way of others.
And, as I mentioned elsewhere, if they raise their children to bully those they perceive are "gay", come down on them with large hammers.