from the department of extremely not okay
Jun. 4th, 2009 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rowe/krxq-sacramento-radio-hos_b_210637.html
Because seriously? If you think this is just about children who are trans? It's not. If you think it's just about children who are lesbian, gay or bisexual? It's not.
It's about any child, anywhere, that isn't conforming to the most traditional of gender roles. It's about kids who like to play dress-up and kids that like to write stories and kids that want to try on identities instead of just growing up into exactly who they think they should be to make everyone else happy.
It's about your little heterosexual, cis-gendered, pink-wearing girl who wants to grow up to be a pilot and your son, who is going to be a dancer, who would happily date every girl in ballet class if he could.
It is about our arts and our sciences.
And it is, of course, as ever, about women and how we culturally despise them. Because how much of this diatribe is reserved for FtM kids? Almost none. It's all about boys and dresses, or, at least, so these biggoted child-abuse advocates think.
Trans issues are the issues that seem to get shafted the most often in the battle for LGBTQ rights. They're so marginal people say. They affect so few people.
Nope. Wrong.
They're about everyone. About what they do. About what they like. And about what kids want to be when they grow up.
This shit is severely unacceptable and deeply dangerous.
(ETA: Read comments for ways to contact station, advertisers, etc.)
(ETA2: More contact info and some progress: http://virginia-fell.livejournal.com/267487.html)
Because seriously? If you think this is just about children who are trans? It's not. If you think it's just about children who are lesbian, gay or bisexual? It's not.
It's about any child, anywhere, that isn't conforming to the most traditional of gender roles. It's about kids who like to play dress-up and kids that like to write stories and kids that want to try on identities instead of just growing up into exactly who they think they should be to make everyone else happy.
It's about your little heterosexual, cis-gendered, pink-wearing girl who wants to grow up to be a pilot and your son, who is going to be a dancer, who would happily date every girl in ballet class if he could.
It is about our arts and our sciences.
And it is, of course, as ever, about women and how we culturally despise them. Because how much of this diatribe is reserved for FtM kids? Almost none. It's all about boys and dresses, or, at least, so these biggoted child-abuse advocates think.
Trans issues are the issues that seem to get shafted the most often in the battle for LGBTQ rights. They're so marginal people say. They affect so few people.
Nope. Wrong.
They're about everyone. About what they do. About what they like. And about what kids want to be when they grow up.
This shit is severely unacceptable and deeply dangerous.
(ETA: Read comments for ways to contact station, advertisers, etc.)
(ETA2: More contact info and some progress: http://virginia-fell.livejournal.com/267487.html)
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Date: 2009-06-05 01:04 am (UTC)As a woman, I notice the limitations placed on me. But I never thought of the limitations boys and men have on them, the lack of freedom in how to express themselves. Now it's not really a big deal if I want to walk around in casual mens wear, baggy jeans and hoodies, t-shirts, stuff like that. Guys just can't get away with wearing girly clothing. I never really thought of that before.
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Date: 2009-06-05 02:08 am (UTC)The folks who spew this stuff...the answer to any problem to them is dominance. Berate and belittle and bellow to get submission of whoever is against them, and if that doesn't work, beat. The "Ay-rabs" getting in your way? Bomb the hell out of them. Your wife not doing like she "should?" Slap her around, belittle her as a human being.
We tend to call people like this abusive and sociopathic and put them in jail.
And you know, it's all well and good for them to have an opinion, but they'd better be prepared to stand by it when they're called on their shit. As in, you are saying it's a good thing to be a child abuser. You are saying it's a good thing to be so small-minded and simple that the only answer your tiny brain can come up with is violence. Your world is so monochromatic that you are incapable of seeing nuance in a situation, whether it's "the man in front of me dropped a dollar, do I give it to him" or "if I beat my child and tell her she's worthless and an abomination, why would i be surprised if she committed suicide?"