The freshies at Wells this year are HOMOPHOBES and they are all SHOCKED about all the LESBIANS on campus. Well, guess who came first? Puttas! My cross country team is homophobic, my freshman roommate is homophobic and she won't let Sabrina and me put up a Safe Space sign on our door. She doesn't address our lesbian friends by their names, treats them with a cold shoulder, all in the name of the Bible, which she believes preaches against homosexuality. We want her out of her room, for her homophobia, religious zealousness, her naivety. Leigh
I copied it, I can't verify them. But, most if not all of these have actually happened. And probably happened repeatedly.
As for the first one that pissed you off, I watched that happen. My brother won't pick up / hold his son for fear of making him gay.
And I know instances of cross-gender people of all sorts being horribly mistreated for being gender-variant (Leslie Feinberg lived to tell the tale) so I'm pretty sure that at least one transsexual has died from someone saying, "get 'it' out of here" and refusing to treat.
I know that people who have stopped going to church because of their communities' hate. And some get strong enough to build support communities in spite of that bias (Dignity/Integrity for instance).
As for home ec. vs gym... I don't know for sure. I know the "lesbian gym teacher" stereotype persists. And I see people give in to gender stereotyping in their own lives every day. Whether that specifically happened? Don't know.
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I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
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As for the first one that pissed you off, I watched that happen. My brother won't pick up / hold his son for fear of making him gay.
And I know instances of cross-gender people of all sorts being horribly mistreated for being gender-variant (Leslie Feinberg lived to tell the tale) so I'm pretty sure that at least one transsexual has died from someone saying, "get 'it' out of here" and refusing to treat.
I know that people who have stopped going to church because of their communities' hate. And some get strong enough to build support communities in spite of that bias (Dignity/Integrity for instance).
As for home ec. vs gym... I don't know for sure. I know the "lesbian gym teacher" stereotype persists. And I see people give in to gender stereotyping in their own lives every day. Whether that specifically happened? Don't know.
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