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This, today.

“This user is blocked from commenting on Scotties Playtime. The person has been asked not to comment on this blog. This person deleted my comments on her blog and refused to answer questions why, but this person left up their replies under a prior comment attempting to make me look stupid and uneducated on the subject. When I asked her why she did that she refused to answer. This person continuing to comment here and not addressing my question on her behavior to me shows contempt for me and a lack of respect for my blog. I have now gone to the step of blocking this person. Bye”

At least Scottie had the courtesy to tell me why he blocked me, although he’s totally wrong. I’ve never tried to make him look “stupid & uneducated” on any subject. & I don’t have a contempt for him or any other person, nor do I have a lack a respect for his blog. I stopped following his blog because he posts too much & I can’t take all the email in my inbox. I have too much email as it is.

My beef with Scottie is that we disagree on trans-ideology & instead of “agreeing to disagree”, like reasonable people do, like friends do, he kept trying to argue with me. Some of his arguments, especially those concerning the transing of children & the education of young children concerning trans-ideology seemed to me just like the arguments that abusers use, especially child abusers. I am giving Scottie the benefit of the doubt here & I don’t think he knew what he was saying. But as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, I am really tuned to this kind of thing & I am all about keeping children safe from predators, ALL predators.

As to “refusing to answer”, I did what I do with all people who continue to hound me when I say I do not wish to continue the conversation … I walk away. Which is what I did with Scottie. I am very sad that it’s come to this. I really like Scottie & I am going to miss him. This argument has rippled through WordPress & now I am finding myself no-platformed on several other blogs that I follow. I won’t list them here but it’s really getting to me. & it’s all because of the stupid trans-ideology political crapola.

I will state it here & I will state it clearly. I do not hate anyone. I have fought for the civil rights of all people, including transgendered people & I will continue to do so for the rest of my life. However, I do not & I will not fight for an ideology that is toxic & is obviously the patriarchy on steroids … that is removing sex-based protections for girls & women … that is teaching gender ideology to children too young to understand what it means … that is weaponizing BOTH the Republicans & the Democrats in their war against each other & the American people. An ideology that is based on kink & porn & should be left in the adult sex industry where it belongs. As a former sex worker, I know what I am talking about.

This is an ideology that should NOT be taught to children. Honestly, no ideology should be taught to children. Leave the kids alone! You don’t give kids alcohol & cigarettes or drugs … you make them wait until they are adults. This ideology is the same damn thing. But for some reason, it now OK to put children on life-changing drugs & even mutilate their bodies, all in the name of being “trans inclusive”.

As a mother & soon-to-be-grandmother, I find this absolutely egregious.

I have no doubt that there are children that think they are the opposite sex. When I was a kid, I thought I was a deer. For a while I thought I was a horse. & yes, I thought I was a boy. I was a tomboy & I am still a tomboy. But I am a woman & I am SO FUCKING GRATEFUL that I don’t live in today’s world because I still have my beautiful breasts, I wasn’t ever put on puberty blockers, I have experienced orgasms & still do. I think of all the children who will NEVER have an orgasm because of the drugs they are being fed, because nobody is making them wait until they are old enough to know what’s going on in their growing minds & bodies. Nobody has the strength to tell them NO. Like parents & the adults in their lives are supposed to do. Like mine did. Yeah, I hated my parents sometimes. You’re supposed to hate your parents. Now I am so thankful I had parents who loved me enough to be “mean”. They weren’t mean … they LOVED me.

As for puberty blockers … you’re supposed to go through puberty! & you’re supposed to hate it. I know I hated my period, especially back in the 1970s, when I wasn’t allowed to wear a tampon (my Catholic mother forbid it) & I had to wear this awful belt with the pad & the metal clasp bit into my skin. It was TERRIBLE. When I hear young girls complain about their periods now, I think, gee you just don’t know. But yeah, I get it. Puberty sucks & periods suck & boys being boys suck. & all the changes suck. It’s called growing up. It’s what all animals do & humans are animals.

Stop trying to fuck with reality. Reality is humans come in two types, men & females. You cannot change your sex. You can change your gender but not your sex. Gender is not sex. I know that most people now think that gender & sex is the same thing but that is not true. I am a WOMAN, that is AN ADULT HUMAN FEMALE.

Transwomen are not women. They are men. Transmen are not men. They are women. This is reality. The prefix “trans” has meaning, it’s not there for nothing! If transwomen were really women & transmen really men, why is the “trans” there? Because they’re not. & everyone knows this. It’s only ideology that says they are.

I live in the real world. Not in some transgendered magical world. This does not mean I hate transgendered people or that I’m “transphobic” or “hateful” or any other stupid thing. It means I am living in REALITY.

Goodbye Scottie. I’ll miss you. But that’s the way it goes in war.

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Rage at Republicans but Don’t Forget that the Democrats are Every Bit as Complicit!

My son reports that his father has been blowing up his phone with texts about how he “should” be voting “blue” this election & every election to come. But to my thinking, that’s like closing the barn door after your horses have run off. & honestly … the way the Democrats have acted, it’s almost like trying to save your burning barn with a mere bucket of water. Walk away. There’s nothing left to save.

Margaret Kimberley writes about this much better than I can. I’m just a poet.

Link here ~~~~> https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/democrats-exposed-by-the-end-of-roe?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=87c3b8f6b8-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-87c3b8f6b8-287008008&mc_cid=87c3b8f6b8&mc_eid=868e0aff63

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On the Censorship of Books

I’ve been reading a lot about censorship lately in various newspapers, blogs & ezines. It’s a curse that never seems to go away & it’s particularly virulent right now, like so many other curses that the United States seem to be suffering.

I was born in 1960 & went to junior & senior high in the 1970s & many of the books that are being banned in certain states were on our required reading lists (of course, several of them, like the graphic novel Maus, hadn’t been written yet). Even in the so-called liberal states of NY & MA, where I went to school, there were parents who wanted to remove books like Catcher in the Rye & The Grapes of Wrath & Catch-22 (just to name a few) from required reading lists.

My parents were strict Roman Catholic, conservative Republicans, but I was allowed to read whatever I wanted & I read everything. (I am sure – now – that they weren’t entirely aware of everything I was reading). I read The Collector by John Fowles when I was 11 years old because my older sister was reading it in her 10th grade English class & I read whatever she was reading. I read the entirety of The Story of Civilization by Will & Auriel Durant before I was fifteen. I read the racy novels that my cousins read. I read the bestsellers of Taylor Caldwell & Rumor Godden & Elizabeth Goudge. I read poetry & history & books about fashion & culture & hundreds of biographies. I read the Bible all the way though, once a year, every year, from the age of 10 until I was 17. Believe me, I read everything.

The only thing that I wasn’t allowed to read was – amazingly! – Gone With The Wind – to which my mother had objections. When I asked why I couldn’t read it, she said that I “wouldn’t understand” it. My father said that if I didn’t understand it, then there wasn’t a problem … it was the books that I did understand that created a problem. He also pointed out (quite sensibly) that the more my mother banned the book, the more I would want to read it. & of course I did read it – I had a paperback copy that I stuffed into my suede bag with my notebook & pens & apple & carried with me everywhere. I had that copy for years … it eventually fell apart, doomed to be held together with tape & rubber bands, like so many of the paperback novels that I read & reread.

I love to read & I love to write & I have a degree in English. I remember when it was recommended that I become a teacher but that route never particularly appealed to me. Now, it appeals to me even less.

Apparently, some parents in some states think they have the necessary education to tell teachers what they can & cannot teach. Not just the books they use but the very curriculum. I suppose they want to home school but they don’t want to do the actual schooling part of it, nor do they want their kids at home. They just want to dictate what other people do.

The Rude Pundit has a better take on this than I do. link here ~~~~> https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2022/01/one-more-time-nearly-every-parent-is.html