Avert your eyes, children, she may change forms
I am vaguely aware of what's going on lately in the church of my upbringing.
Can you imagine if, say, a woman was elected as a regional vice-president of a multinational corporation by that division's officers, and every other division in the company totally lost their shit over the mere fact that there was suddenly a woman among their ranks, enough to make global headlines? Maybe fifty years ago this would be unsurprising, but today everyone else would look at them awful funny, eh?
Making it slightly worse for me personally is that my own parents loudly side with the conservatives in all these issues, and want to tell me about how they've started attending services at some rogue don't want no faggots 'round here splinter-church and they feel just like the early Christians meeting in secret enclaves to escape persecution! So exciting!! I've tried to show them how childish their views are but there's not much point to it, so instead I just try to change the subject when it comes up.
Can you imagine if, say, a woman was elected as a regional vice-president of a multinational corporation by that division's officers, and every other division in the company totally lost their shit over the mere fact that there was suddenly a woman among their ranks, enough to make global headlines? Maybe fifty years ago this would be unsurprising, but today everyone else would look at them awful funny, eh?
Making it slightly worse for me personally is that my own parents loudly side with the conservatives in all these issues, and want to tell me about how they've started attending services at some rogue don't want no faggots 'round here splinter-church and they feel just like the early Christians meeting in secret enclaves to escape persecution! So exciting!! I've tried to show them how childish their views are but there's not much point to it, so instead I just try to change the subject when it comes up.