Reading Time: 4 minutes Those awful Trump statues have a meaningful message about how we perceive the bodies of our leaders, and it’s not a nice one.
Observations
Posted inCulture, General
If You Can Understand Fantasy Football, You Can Understand Systemic Racism
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you can analyze statistics for your sports-enjoyment purposes, I wonder why you’re not doing it to understand the impact of racism.
Posted inGeneral, Sex & Gender
I Gain Nothing By Excluding You
Reading Time: 3 minutes How many years of feminine socialization are required to make a woman? I don’t have the answer and I don’t want to be a jerk about it.
Posted inCulture, General
Changing Your Conditioning Sucks But Sometimes You Gotta
Reading Time: 3 minutes You don’t get to be smug about deconditioning yourself from one toxic worldview (theism) simply to espouse another (racism). It’s hard, but do the work.
Posted inGeneral, Sex & Gender
The Dilemma of Confronting Abusers Who Do “Good Work”
Reading Time: 4 minutes However high the quality of your work, you’re not doing “good work” if you are intimidating, harassing, or abusing people in your community.
Posted inGeneral
Valuing Consent Means Being Ready to Apologize
Reading Time: 3 minutes If someone says you’ve harmed them, you can either argue, or you can apologize. Guess which one moves the conversation forward.
Posted inCulture, General, Myth & Folklore
Not All Religion Is a Cancer, But If It’s Part of the Problem, It Must Be Part of the Solution
Reading Time: 4 minutes If your religion participates in the dialogue making LGBTQ folks out to be misguided, gross, or subhuman, then you are part of the problem. And from there, you can choose to become part of the solution.
Posted inGeneral, Myth & Folklore
Post-Tragedy Right-Wing Statements Predictably Blame Victims
Reading Time: 3 minutes Denying a group basic humanity, and staging even nonviolent protests against them, is one end of the spectrum of dehumanization. And at the other end lies violence, genocide, obliteration.