Referring, of course, to the old - and quite true - adage about appropriate responses to attack, Nietzsche: “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster . . . for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you ( Read more... )

So I looked for an academic history of gay marriage to pull together all the stuff I'd been hearing, and found this intriguing paragraph:

It was in the thirteenth century, however, that the first laws against sodomy emerged and began to be enforced. Through the next several centuries in the West, all manner of behavior deemed deviant or unnatural ( Read more... )

Every once in a while, it's necessary to revisit this discussion. As a former christian I have a unique view of the question, my own efforts to gain a pure and therefore muscular and supportive version of the religion having been met with a series of increasingly narrow definitions that, eventually, defined me right out ( Read more... )

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Every parent of a child must read But I Did Everything Right! right fucking now. And then take a deep sigh of relief and acceptance.

it reads, in part: If there is one thing experts on child development agree on, it is that kids learn best when they are allowed to make mistakes and feel the consequences. [...] But not, it seems, all kids. In about ( Read more... )

( Possibly triggering, certainly somewhat anti-Christian material below, depending on which verses you read how. )

ETA: WARNING
It was just abruptly borne in on me that a warning for personal history of child-molestation needs to be here.

( For those who have still not seen the SG:A episode *Outcast*. )

( This essay is based profoundly on one I wrote decades ago now for Mama Rose's Kitchen, and which I reposted here in November of 2004. But let me rework it yet again for you now. )

( Okay, so I watch them late. And I think about them. Sosume. )

I am an ( American feminist information literacy librarian warrior. )