I know I haven't updated in a while, I'll get to that soon :) In the meantime, I just couldn't sit still regarding one of the biggest crocks of shite I've seen on TV these past few years. ( Rantity Rant )
Well, that's the thing... if we don't agree with how they think, the status quo continues. If they don't agree with how we think, they run out and try to pass laws to stop us.
And you're talking about people who really do believe their kids are their property, who think theirs would *never* do drugs, or have sex before marriage, or get pregnant, or even love someone of the same sex. That's why they're so scared of gay people being able to legally marry: just one more thing they don't have control of in their kids' lives.
It's a lot like the people who fought so hard to keep "colored" people out of schools and unable to legally marry. Actually, it's exactly the same, complete with the same arguments against it.
Oh no doubt. I said I can understand why they feel and do what they do, but it sure as hell makes me sick to my stomach putting myself in their shoes. I CAN put myself in the mind of someone who'd feel and act like this, and feel the justifications creeping through me. I just try not to do it for too long, because it makes me ill. (And I start to lose myself if I do it for too long--like the barriers that make up "me" and keep me separate from each speck of consciousness in existence become so permeable that I become lost
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And you're talking about people who really do believe their kids are their property, who think theirs would *never* do drugs, or have sex before marriage, or get pregnant, or even love someone of the same sex. That's why they're so scared of gay people being able to legally marry: just one more thing they don't have control of in their kids' lives.
It's a lot like the people who fought so hard to keep "colored" people out of schools and unable to legally marry. Actually, it's exactly the same, complete with the same arguments against it.
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I miss you, and miss your updates, and journaling, please, don't be so quiet!
I laugh at myself as I say this, as MY journaling has suffered as I have become busy, and frankly, happier...
Love you!
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