In the Right
This is a blog dedicated to discussing my political and moral views. I am a conservative Christian, female, age 23.
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Photo reblogged from Dear Cis People
Dear Cis People:
You don’t get to have an opinion on being trans*; if I come out to you it is not a space for you to tell me all your thoughts on being trans* ever, or for you to say you don’t like it. It’s me telling you how you’re going to talk to me from now on.
Sorry (but not), no. That’s not how reality works. We have the right to say what we think, and you have no right to control how we talk to you. That being said, politeness and kindness is always good on both sides (which you seem incapable of, at least at first glance), but of our volition, not your demands or force. Kindly learn this.
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Photo reblogged from Dear Cis People
Dear Cis People:
When do I get to ask you the ridiculous questions you ask me? And no, you can’t be offended. Because it’s your own fault for being cis.
What ridiculous questions? And why should I be offended?
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so probably most of you were around when i did full-shave november
one of the problems with it was, of course, the timing - it was winter, so no one could see my hairless body. i resolved to fix this problem and do the whole thing again when it became warmer
well, i wore shorts for the first time today, which means it is officially warm enough
now introducing: the hairless month of may (a reference to this song, of course), in which i will, as before, duplicate the body hair regimen society expects women to conform to (which is to say, i can’t have any)
back in november, i had failed to fully articulate what i wanted to achieve. i’ve put a lot of thought into it since then, and i’m going to elaborate it in a nice ordered list
- it is absurd that women are societally expected to have no body hair, and that a woman with body hair is shamed for this
- it is also absurd that men are expected to have body hair, and that a man without body hair is also shamed for this (though not to the extent of a woman with body hair)
- both of these stem from pervasive misogyny
- i hope to draw attention to this misogyny by reversing these gender roles. people may well ask why i am shaving my legs and armpits, but it is exceptionally unlikely that anyone would ever ask a woman that. that’s what i’m trying to show by doing this
- regrettably, there is no way for me, as a cis man, to understand the societal pressures put upon women in this regard. i fully acknowledge that. i also recognize that it is possible for me to back out of this at any time and suffer no societal backlash (though i do not intend to)
- additionally, i know i have a lot of privilege and this results in people paying more attention to what i have to say than they ought or than they would to a woman. i don’t really know what i can do about this, unfortunately. go read stuff that women write about societal double standards instead of listening to me!
- also please let me know if i’ve done something problematic. i think i’ve managed to avoid all the pitfalls of last november, but it’s very possible i’ve missed something
- please don’t send me messages to the effect of “it’s awesome that you’re doing this”. i don’t want them and i don’t deserve them
- last but not least, i’m not going to be “updating my progress” or anything, but i will reblog this post to respond to people’s commentary upon it. everything will be tagged as “the hairless month of may”, so if you don’t want to see this (understandable, really), feel free to blacklist that
- eta at 7:15pm central time, 4/30/13: hey other male-identifying folk! it would be great if you would join me this month. let’s work together and make a difference, shall we?
It’s really sad to see what the left does to men. All the self-deprecation, constant apology even when blatantly cow-towing to feminism, stepping on eggshells with PC language, and trying not to “offend” any other SJW or radfems is what’s really problematic. Don’t you ever get tired of worrying whether the people you aspire to be a part of are judging your every action as ill-intended or ignorant? Don’t you want to be male without feeling the guilty need to add “privilege” modifiers and flog yourself for not being a woman?
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this is what heterophobia would look like if it was real. if you believe that heterophobia is a real thing that exists, please watch this because you will see that it simply doesn’t exist, that it never has and never will.
tbh I think everyone should watch this anyway because it’s very clever and very powerful
this really hits home
An intriguing AU. But I’m afraid the messages are confused. Bullying is wrong, but that doesn’t make the behavior one is bullied for correct. If these kinds of things (though not all, because not having your kids associate with sexual deviants is kind of a no-brainer) are a regular occurrence, we have a problem. But not a problem with being against homosexuality. We have a problem with bullying. The way we treat people who disagree with us.
Persecution of sinners is not a Christian ideal in the least. Christians are not permitted to attack homosexuals for living a deviant lifestyle. In a similar way, liberals or any other political party should not bully those who disagree with them. Bullying can happen to anyone with an unpopular trait or belief.
I think part of the problem of this society of bullies is public schools. It’s basically Lord of the Flies (and if you haven’t read that book, do so ASAP); the adult to child ratio is kept so low, the children have little choice but to try to rule themselves. And children are not the innocent little lambs some try to tout them as—they do not inherently practice love, patience, kindness, gentleness, or selflessness. Especially in recent times, parents are just not raising their kids. Maybe they expect the schools to do that, but honestly, the more I hear about public schools, the more EXTREMELY concerned I become over their gaps in teaching. Not that teachers should be relied upon to educate children on morals and character, without parent involvement. For anyone fed up with the failings of public schooling, like I am, I strongly encourage you to homeschool. It can make a world of positive difference for your child’s education and quality of life.
I think this illustrates a few things unintentionally, FIRST: no kid that age should have a personal computer in their room. I had a computer to myself out in the hall and I am seriously messed up mostly because of my addiction to the internet. And I didn’t have a cell phone till I was 17 and I’m glad because if I grew up in this day with a smart phone while I was still a CHILD I would be way more screwed up than I am and that is saying something. And also if you have cyber bullying in your life you should have the self control to shut it off. It isn’t hard. It is a button very easily push-able and it could save your life. You need to distance yourself, protect yourself. I speak from experience.
SECOND: the writers of this video are cramming a lot of things in to prove a point but these are several different real life accounts crammed into one persons point of view, making you think that all of this happens to each bullied kid, but really a lot of bullied kids get a small portion of this and when media puts it together it makes you think the whole world is going to hell. I’m not saying that people never get this treatment and this is exaggerated but my sister used to think that highschool was exactly LIKE GLEE and I’m just saying that tv is dramatic for a reason.The church thing is not so literal, it might be what someone hears but it is not what is being said. That was some westboro shit right there. and it is not as common as just walking into a church off the street and wouldn’t you know it ‘god hate fags’ NO.
And I am slightly offed by the suggestion that in this AU Boys are in plays and Girls are in football.
Ehem . Newsflash, being gay doesn’t mean you like ‘girly things’, and liking ‘girly things’ doesn’t make you gay. Being a lesbian doesn’t make you butch, and being butch does not make you a lesbian. When the LBGT community uses this switch around in their arguments it makes it hard to take them seriously because they are putting themselves in an awkward stereotype that kind of makes me feel like they aren’t born that way. That maybe they found a love for trombones and someone said ‘that’s so gay’ and they ran with it. If you would let us believe that there are manly gay men and girly lesbian girls(though the latter has not been questioned as often and I could rant about that but I wont) then it would be a little easier to accept. the fact that you are pushing this whole thing about hobbies being indicators of sexual orientation is stupid. Quit that. It’s messing with kids heads. And it does NOT make bullying less prominent. It makes it worse.
I really really like the video because it was so well done overall and the acting was really okay. Which is great for an independent short film. It made me emotional. So hats off. Some of the script was unbelievable but that may be because I have never been bullied like that and I honestly have never heard of a teacher being so personal and rude to a kid but I don’t live in a big city full of assholes either so that’s probably why.
I don’t like that they used children, because the things in this film are traumatic and I think these child actors should be sheltered by this kind of stuff but that is really my mothering instinct jumping in.
Just as a last note this reminds me of Latter Days- wherein a male missionary falls in love with another man on his mission while in california. There is a scene where the missionary is excommunicated for being gay and it is terrifying, again, for artistic purposes the perspective of the main character is shown, not the realistic version. But people believe that that is what ‘excommunication’ looks like and it is not like that IT IS NOTHING LIKE THAT NEVER EVER EVER WOULD THEY ACT LIKE THAT. I’ve been LDS my whole life And I live in UTAH which is rumored to be the most judgmental state on this side of the country- but no matter what sins I talked about with my bishop he was ALWAYS understanding and yes, he would tell me that I would have to be excommunicated for this and that if I did such things but it wouldn’t be like I was slipping into hell, it would be more like a ‘I know you’re going through something, I hope you come back again soon. And if you need ANYTHING I’m still here for you.’ (sigh, another shameless Mormon plug-in, I can’t help it!)
JUST ugh.
Media can do things to your head man.
I have to say another thing but Why did you HAVE to turn it into a suicide? I get it but I think it is unnecessary. You are basically just piling on to the point of obnoxiously sad. That is a thing because I say so. I feel the same way about season 3 of Roswell.
And on another note, if this kid had a Dad, they could have beaten down that door and she wouldn’t have died. Just sayin’. beating down doors is what Dads are for in my experience.
Wow, I think I totally agree with everything said here. Thank you for saying it in words I couldn’t find. Also, LOL to that last point.
Also, to emphasize the excommunication point (we call it disfellowshipping)… Disfellowshipping is done only with members (and VERY RARELY as a last resort) who have fallen into a deviant, sinful lifestyle and blatantly refuse to try to change. It is for the purposes of both trying to bring the person back to God and trying to protect the congregation from bad influences. It’s a show of seriousness to the person that what they’re doing is serious and severe to the point that the church can’t associate them. Kind of a wake-up call. And it’s necessary for the congregation as well, because continuing to ignore the person’s deviancy shows the congregation that this thing isn’t a big deal, and everything will still be okay if you do it. Which isn’t what we believe. So yeah, that’s my two cents on that.
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Video reblogged from feeling lucky, punk?
this is what heterophobia would look like if it was real. if you believe that heterophobia is a real thing that exists, please watch this because you will see that it simply doesn’t exist, that it never has and never will.
tbh I think everyone should watch this anyway because it’s very clever and very powerful
this really hits home
An intriguing AU. But I’m afraid the messages are confused. Bullying is wrong, but that doesn’t make the behavior one is bullied for correct. If these kinds of things (though not all, because not having your kids associate with sexual deviants is kind of a no-brainer) are a regular occurrence, we have a problem. But not a problem with being against homosexuality. We have a problem with bullying. The way we treat people who disagree with us.
Persecution of sinners is not a Christian ideal in the least. Christians are not permitted to attack homosexuals for living a deviant lifestyle. In a similar way, liberals or any other political party should not bully those who disagree with them. Bullying can happen to anyone with an unpopular trait or belief.
I think part of the problem of this society of bullies is public schools. It’s basically Lord of the Flies (and if you haven’t read that book, do so ASAP); the adult to child ratio is kept so low, the children have little choice but to try to rule themselves. And children are not the innocent little lambs some try to tout them as—they do not inherently practice love, patience, kindness, gentleness, or selflessness. Especially in recent times, parents are just not raising their kids. Maybe they expect the schools to do that, but honestly, the more I hear about public schools, the more EXTREMELY concerned I become over their gaps in teaching. Not that teachers should be relied upon to educate children on morals and character, without parent involvement. For anyone fed up with the failings of public schooling, like I am, I strongly encourage you to homeschool. It can make a world of positive difference for your child’s education and quality of life.
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Post reblogged from I'm going to hunt you down.
- Saying she wants to skin Japanese people and wear them like Versace
- Calling Rihanna a “hoodrat”
- Calling Rihanna a “hoodrat” AGAIN
- Calling Rihanna a “hoodrat” A THIRD TIME
- Her incredibly homophobic song “Ur So Gay” which includes the line “I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf”
- Trivialized bisexuality in song “I Kissed A Girl”
- This trans*phobic tweet
- “You can’t be a full [t-word] every day of the week… that’s an exaggerated part of my personality.”
- Demonstrates unsafe binding technique using ace bandages in her Part Of Me video (For more info on why using ace bandages is dangerous/info on safer but still cheap binding methods, check out this post on Queercents)
- Casual appropriation and sexualization of saris and bindis
The Katy Perry YFIP post has been updated a few times since it was originally posted (including tonight with the binding info), so I thought I’d bring it around again
I just get so embarrassed that people on my dash actually reblog things like this in all seriousness. Out of all the terrible things celebrities are, SJWs somehow find a way to criticize the least- or even totally non-consequential things.
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Post reblogged from small talk, big thoughts
Because morality and perversion are concepts that exist. Please don’t use one of my favorite characters in such a stupid argument to further your flawed agenda.
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Post reblogged from Lefty Begone
It has since been removed, but there was an event posted on the Facebook page of Brown University that was to host a workshop for students who are both gay and racial minorities and who are attracted to white people. The aim of the workshop was to get the gay minorities to stop pining for whitey.
The event page read:
Some of us…find ourselves falling always for the white queers or other bodies that possess dominant power, wishing we could have more agency in the process, be more intentional about who we desire and how.
Let me interrupt to note that it is now apparently okay to refer to gay people as queers. Ah, the ever-changing rules of liberalism.
The page continues:
We are invested in generating a politics of sexuality that compels us to interrogate beauty as privilege and constructed by systems of white supremacy, ableism, capitalism, and heteronormativity.
And here’s a description of what will be happening at the event:
We will break into POC and White caucus groups for a part of the workshop to unpack some of our specific experiences of racialized desire. This will be an intentional, anti-racist, and feminist space.
See that term, “POC”? It stands for “People of Color.” I am now noting in my brain for future reference that, according to the rules as dictated by liberals, it is now apparently okay to refer to blacks, for example, as colored people. My, how far we have regressed.
During the Republican primary season of 2011, much attention was paid to the husband of candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann. Marcus Bachmann ran a Christian counseling center that, it was alleged, tried to counsel the homosexuality out of kids. Michele Bachmann was branded guilty, by association, of trying to change gay people.
“You can’t change gay people; who you’re attracted to is not a choice! It can’t be changed!” So went the argument.
But here we have a gaggle of gays at Brown University attempting to do just that: changing who gay people are attracted to. If the Bachmanns’ offense was trying to change gays, then Brown University is doubly guilty for not only trying to change gays, but to do it in an “anti-racist” (read: racist) way.
Liberals have taught us so much in this single story:
We’ve learned that it’s okay to refer to gays as queers; that it’s okay to refer to blacks as colored; that attraction to others is a choice; that it’s okay to try and manipulate that choice; and that it’s okay to run workshops that teach minorities to actively discriminate against whites.
This is what’s known as progress in Democratic circles.
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To hear liberals tell it, one would think that conservatives generally do care about what sex someone is attracted to. Truth is, most of us could not care less. The only ones who ever seem to put any importance on such trivial matters as someone’s sexual orientation are liberals themselves.
It is liberals who make movies celebrating gayness and gay people. It is liberals who teach classes on gayness. If a conservative male is particularly effeminate, it is liberals who ever call him “faggot” and a “closeted queer.” It was liberals who wondered, for some reason, if footballer Manti Te’o is gay.
Speaking of football, there is great titillation among the left, and almost exclusively among the left, at the recent teases that one or several professional NFL players will be emerging from the proverbial closet in the coming days or weeks. Liberals can hardly contain their bladders in all their anticipation.
Brendon Ayanbadejo, who plays some position called a “linebacker” for the Baltimore Ravens, recently said he believes as many as four players could announce their gaiety all at once so that they could each support one another.
SBNation.com says that this “would be awesome.” Is this any more awesome than if a presumably gay guy came out as straight? Any more awesome than if a presumably straight guy confirmed he was indeed straight?
SBNation continued:
The one reason to worry about an NFL player coming out as gay would be the inevitable avalanche of horrible jokes, hateful responses, and insane scrutiny, all directed at one human being.
Well, I can think of three easy measures that can be taken to remedy this.
One thing would be for liberals to stop caring. By making a big deal about an announcement, they make a spectacle of the gay person.
The other thing that would help is if gay people stopped asking to be made into spectacles. Gays claim to want privacy, but then they go and make big deals about being gay. They should either stay “in the closet” or avoid making some big, attention-seeking announcement about it. Normal people don’t feel the need to broadcast the personal details of their lives before a press corps, and reasonable people would never complain that a big deal is being made about something that they took the time and energy to notify the media about.
Finally, gays should stop defining themselves as gay. Gay is an adjective, not who someone is. A flamboyant singer by the name of Mika was once asked in a 2009 interview if he was gay, and he basically said, “Who cares?” adding that he doesn’t like to label himself. (Though in 2012, I’m guessing in an attempt to revive his short-lived popularity, he did say he was gay. So much for principle.)
So are a few football players gay? Who cares! Leave us alone about it!
