Today during the hearings for our next Supreme Court Justice of the US a not so subtle hint was made by one of the Republicans that the issue of marriage equality should be once again, given back to the states to decide on their own. This is horrifying. America is taking a great leap backwards on every issue from choice, voting rights, and now possibly marriage equality. As a married, white, cis gender Jewish female well beyond child bearing years, who is financially stable (🤞) much of this does not touch me personally, but I am furious! I fought for those rights! We cannot go back! It is not a fad to be gay. It’s not something you adopt like a hairstyle or a new diet. No one I know in the LGBTI community feels safe and wants to be someone’s poster child for a cause of the month. Abortion is healthcare. Voting is a right. WTF is going on in my country!!!!
As a shrink it is my experience that more and more people are claiming queerness as a shield for their actual lack of wokeness. And as you say it has no meaning. It once again puts a muddy foot in sacred waters. I’m beyond sick of arguing with people about how sexuality isn’t a choice, about how children don’t have a sexuality, about how identity is not an outside-in job. You can’t make yourself safe by lying about who you are. His is not an act of bravery. It is an act of cowardice.
Today during the hearings for our next Supreme Court Justice of the US a not so subtle hint was made by one of the Republicans that the issue of marriage equality should be once again, given back to the states to decide on their own. This is horrifying. America is taking a great leap backwards on every issue from choice, voting rights, and now possibly marriage equality. As a married, white, cis gender Jewish female well beyond child bearing years, who is financially stable (🤞) much of this does not touch me personally, but I am furious! I fought for those rights! We cannot go back! It is not a fad to be gay. It’s not something you adopt like a hairstyle or a new diet. No one I know in the LGBTI community feels safe and wants to be someone’s poster child for a cause of the month. Abortion is healthcare. Voting is a right. WTF is going on in my country!!!!
As a shrink it is my experience that more and more people are claiming queerness as a shield for their actual lack of wokeness. And as you say it has no meaning. It once again puts a muddy foot in sacred waters. I’m beyond sick of arguing with people about how sexuality isn’t a choice, about how children don’t have a sexuality, about how identity is not an outside-in job. You can’t make yourself safe by lying about who you are. His is not an act of bravery. It is an act of cowardice.
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