I have been busy doing exactly that, dodging rainbows. I would have simply minded my own business and gone on quietly doing just that, if I did not feel this pressing doubt about my freedom to say anything about it at all.
So here goes nothing. It's not okay! It's one thing to insist we just be kind to one another and love our neighbors, it's a totally different thing to have this stuff forced upon you and in your face 24/7, many churches all decked out in pride flags and restaurants posting huge flyers on their door proclaiming how they affirm every possible sexuality and gender identity ever imagined.
We now get to do this for an entire month because people feel "oppressed" and must be "affirmed," apparently by the entire world. Meanwhile, absolutely no one cares about the fact that I got to see a toddler's transgender bathing suit that allows them to tuck their genitals away and I have no idea how to emotionally and spiritually process something like that. I literally cannot respond when people try to tell me this has nothing to do with children and yet pedophilia is rapidly becoming just another sexuality, a valid identity.
Some preschool story hour drag queens actually told me that there is nothing sexual about reading to small children because this is just "performance art," a clownish act, entertainment. They are just innocently mocking cartoonish stereotypes of womanhood. No "real people" are being harmed here.
I guess I'm supposed to feel comforted by the fact that womanhood is now perceived as mock worthy and clownish? No one will ever answer me, but why is blackface considered demeaning and degrading, but womanface is totally acceptable?
I don't know how to function in a world where women, lesbians, feminists even, are being assaulted by men in beards who think they are the women now. No one cares what I think of course, but for crying out loud your new and improved "progress flag" actually has the black, brown, blue, and pink of the transgender flag in a sharp little point now stabbing it's way across the rainbow.
Somewhere in the world there is a wise rad/fem left who knows exactly what I am talking about, has the scars to prove it, and isn't buying what they're selling either.
Right on schedule, just in time for Pride month, the documentary, "Shiny Happy People" about the Duggar family has just come out. Since I seem to be a fan of self torment, I watched it and I'm rather glad I did. The Right side of the aisle, conservatives, Christians, our hands are not clean. Those who were charged with teaching generations about human sexuality, about Christian values, were often busy teaching about hypocrisy, cover ups, woman hatred, perversion, and child abuse instead. And many go right on today still doing precisely that, unable to sell anyone on the idea of Christians having any moral authority.
What do you want me to say? You just can't polish a turd. It is what it is, and it has served to contribute to the sexual confusion we are seeing today and the distrust around all things perceived as "Christian."
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