Three Steps Part 4: Feminism and Fellowship

[crabby_lioness]

So what do you do when it seems like your birthparents, your adoptive family and your church tell you that you, the individual person, are worthless? You start looking for other ways to make progress.  In the 1970s there was another way that had made astounding progress in recent years, and that was through collective action and identification with

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[swordznsorcery]

As always, interesting reading. Timely, too. Do gifted programmes still run in schools? You may not know of course, since you home-educate. I have my suspicions that the DeVos era will not be one of great funding for public schooling. And as for feminism under a President with attitudes like the Orange One... But I am years ahead of your narrative there, sorry.

I wish I could visit your then self, and offer her a little consolation.

[crabby_lioness]

Thank you. I suppose gifted programs still run in better funded districts, but not here.

The Orange One....I used to have a running argument with my shrink. He wanted me to imagine my older self telling my younger self that things were not as bad as she had imagined. I asked him to point to objective evidence in the contemporary world to support that statement. He couldn't. The Orange One would not help my poor shrink's case any.