The meme below is one I found on the page of yet another white man over 70 who took me to task for being blasphemous, which I ignored other than to go briefly to his page and confirm he was a. white, b. male, c. Catholic (he’d used white male Jeebus with a sacred heart as a featured photo more than once). And, I also saw this, which – you gotta admit, is head-bangingly ironic given his stance – with me in the ‘argument’ and revealed on his wall – on abortion.
Poor kitties, being forced to give birth to a litter of critters before they’re full grown!! Imagine how a 12-year-old girl feels, you dickhead?! Oh, no, right, you can’t – you lack empathy for women and girls; you have empathy for cats, instead, and I bet you have a ton of empathy for your fellow man, I mean men. Ick.
But speaking of spaying, how about mandatory vasectomies for all men over the age of 12 and under the age of limp-dick-i-tude, say – 65? 70? Vasectomies are reversible, menstruation and endometriosis and fibroids and cramping and hysterectomies are not.
Blasphemy is speaking or acting irreverently about or against ‘gawd’ or sacred things; But I don’t believe in gawd, or that ‘things’ – chalices, wafers, linens – are more sacred than actual living, breathing human beings – particularly women and girls. The need others but especially men have to ‘correct’ what they perceive as my infractions against ‘the truth’ is staggering at times. The dominant culture – white, male, christian (small ‘c’ used deliberately) – is still doing well, why must the rest of us agree with these brother-fucking assholes? Because they said so.
Being respectful of other people’s beliefs is a good thing, but being force fed any belief, being shamed or berated for not believing, or for questioning the over-arching system – any overarching system – is bad.
As I write this yet another shitty red state (Ohio) has passed a bill seeking to punish trans-kids and adults, a vanishingly small segment of our population, with regard to bathrooms and girls’ – and only girls’ – sports. At the very same time, a former youth pastor in neighboring West Virginia has been charged with almost 200 counts of sexually abusing children – mostly female, possibly all female, including many of his own, younger, relatives – over the past thirty-plus years. Drag queens and trans athletes are not the problem, are not even a problem, but here we are.
You want to help women and girls (well, no, many white men do not – nor do their female enablers – the youth pastor’s wife knew, I gather, and is also charged) but – if you do: #SmashThePatriarchy and that includes – for me – celebrating the Winter Solstice not that made up b.s. we just ‘observed’ yesterday with our usual rush to buy, spend, and charge and waste. Ooooo, I am in a sour mood today. LOL.