When you get emails from broken-hearted parents dealing with kids they love that are captured by gender ideology, it really, really makes you seethe with contempt at just how insidiously harmful our culture is. For the sake of kids, we have to combat this destructive ideology.
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@fishtank #172997
Exactly. I’m reminded of some of those parents who go on about their autistic children and how it’s somehow all about THEM and what they have to go through, and not the actual autistic children and what THEY have to deal with. Not exactly the same thing I suppose, but as an actual autistic person, I gotta think of that, I guess, lol.
(though, for what it’s worth, I didn’t figure out I was autistic until I was an adult, and even if my parents had known of that when I was a kid, they wouldn’t have been ANYTHING like what I was talking about!)
@TheKingOfRhye #172998
This, just 1,000% this. As annoying as the ableists are when it comes to autism (and gender), what bothers me the most is how unblieveably egotistical they are. While at the same time pretending it’s all about “think of the children”. All those ableists care about is how autistic people inconvennience THEM, never how autistic people themselves can suffer. It just makes me sick to my stomach.
When you get emails from broken-hearted trans kids dealing with parents they love that are captured by anti-trans ideology, it really, really makes you seethe with contempt at just how insidiously harmful fundie culture is. For the sake of kids, we have to combat this destructive ideology.
broken-hearted parents
I can understand feeling this way if your child were, say, a serial killer, but for not being exactly who you want them to be? No. Fuck you.
When you get emails from broken-hearted parents dealing with kids they love that are captured by rightwing ideology, it really, really makes you seethe with contempt at just how insidiously harmful our culture is. For the sake of kids, we have to combat this destructive ideology.
“When you get emails from broken-hearted parents dealing with kids they love that are captured by gender ideology,”
You mean, kids that have finally figured out why they’re not happy and what it would take to make them happy, and their parents who prioritize their own self-image, and see the kids as accessories to that?
Yes, i do seethe with contempt for those parents. Some time back, it was “broken-hearted parents dealing with kids who don’t even want to become doctors or lawyers.”
That part of our culture is a problem. We need to resist seeing our happiness in how the kids live. Happy FOR them, sure. Happy living vicariously through them, not so much.
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