Ryan’s Dismissal Of House Chaplain Sparks Outrage And Suspicion. One of the chaplain’s prayer’s included the line: “May their efforts these days guarantee that there are not winners and losers under new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all Americans.”
Yeah, the Republicans can’t stand that kind of radical religion!
NPR: Conservatives Are Sad Because No One Likes Them.
I’m just going to turn this one over to Dan Savage:
The “average American conservative” spends the day attacking women, people of color, gays and lesbians, illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, trans people, non-Christians, leftwing Christians, Democrats, progressives, liberals, sex havers, sex workers, people who’ve had abortions, people who use birth control, single moms, football players, basketball players, late night talk show hosts, teachers, actors, singers, Olympians, “Hollywood,” high school students who survived mass school shootings, the poor, the disabled, Gold Star parents, Gold Star widows, environmentalists, news reporters, cable news anchors who don’t work for Rupert Murdoch, rappers, college professors, college students, union members, scientists, non-scientists who believe in science, the elderly, “takers” on Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare, people who live in big cities and blue states… and then they run to NPR to whine about how nobody likes them. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
I don’t know how many times we have to say this: there aren’t “both sides” to this thing. One side is constantly attacking the other, and then insist that even if all we do is protest being constantly dehumanized and worse, that we’re the aggressors.
And it’s no longer just queer people they’re going after. Again, I’ll let Dan explain it:
I’m old enough to remember when most of the attacks were directed at queers. Or that’s how it felt in the 1980s, anyway, when I was a young queer. The AIDS Crisis, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anita Bryant, Jesse Helms, and Ronald Reagan. It felt like—what’s the expression? Oh, right: like we were being bombarded daily with murderous disrespect. That I can sit down and make list of the people being attacked daily by conservatives now and that list includes football players, to say nothing of late-night talk show hosts, teachers, and the FBI… it blows my fucking mind. They don’t like ANYBODY and they can’t figure out why no one likes them?
Bill Cosby convicted on three counts of sexual assault.
Five universities revoke Bill Cosby’s honorary degrees after sexual assault conviction.
I used listened to some Cosby comedy albums my parents owned so much, that I could recite entire routines from memory, with appropriate pauses and verbal sound effects. After reading some of the stories of the 59 women who came forward… well, I can’t bring myself to listen to his voice.
The “Incel Rebellion” Is Misogynist Terrorism. So Why Do So Many People Still Put the Blame on Women?
Why are ‘incels’ so angry? The history of the little-known ideology behind the Toronto attack.
Unfortunately society brews a toxic stew of slut-shaming women, telling young men that the only way to be a man is to never feel empathy or treat others with respect, and then we wonder why things like this happen. That’s not all that’s in play, here. It takes an incredibly big mass of hubris to keep insisting that nothing that is wrong in your life could possibly be your fault. Think about the cognitive dissonance that has to be going on: on the one hand most of these guys have embraced the notion that they are not as attractive as other men and so forth, but they also believe that they can do nothing wrong. It ought to make their heads explode.
Now, me bringing up the toxic double-standards of society is not to say, in any way, they these guys are victims. There comes a point where a person should learn to question their assumptions, to question and examine the things they’ve been taught, look around at the world and all the evidence in it, and ask themselves if maybe some of those things are f—ed up. It’s called growing up.
These guys have no one but themselves to blame.
That’s enough about that. I have errands to do and an Avengers movie to see. Time to go be productive!
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I’ve seen an amazing amount of tolerance & patience by many of my GLBTQ peers at educating their co-workers/relatives/neighbors, putting up with many microaggressions- and that’s just at the milder end. I’ve known GLBT folks to forgive people in their lives for much nastier treatment & behavior. So yes, we’ve done more than our fair share of “agreeing to disagree” and turning the other cheek and so forth. They can still not approve of us, not agree with us, etc. But their days of putting those beliefs into law are numbered. That’s not oppression. The Catholic church, Orthodox Jews & plenty of other groups have rules about marriage that aren’t recognized by the state, but are within their groups. Pluralism, it goes in multiple directions, not just in ways that favor social conservatives. Imagine that!