Yesterday evening, as you have probably seen, there was a Board of Education meeting in which Policy 443 was featured in public debate, both inside the meeting and out on the sidewalk. This is basically a policy that allows students to be addressed by the pronouns they prefer and use the facilities they find appropriate for their gender. If you have been following our Facebook posts this will be redundant information, but to no one’s surprise more than ours, we again agree with Cindy Rose about something. These concerned parents couldn’t be bothered to notice when this policy was adopted, so now they think their inattention constitutes some kind of emergency (and perhaps it does, but that kind of deadbeat parenting is a home thing, not a school thing). Most of the deadbeats seem to be affiliated with Moms for Liberty and the coalition with Tom Neumark–whatever it is that thinks he is doing. Think of him as the general in charge of handmaids.
If you attended this and felt like there were a lot of assholes represented at this event, that’s because theyurntfrumheere. There was a large and noisy group of mercenaries in this culture war who look shockingly like the creeps who follow Bob Roberts in the brilliant 1992 film that we are afraid to rewatch because satire of that era probably pales in comparison to our current reality. They are very weird–the Crusaders from Pennsylvania, we mean. Not unimportantly they do use the term Crusade, like the Medieval thinkers that they are. They have been doing “important” “work” for years like protesting the Da Vinci Code film. That seems like time well spent. Basically they are the Catholic analogue of the Westboro Baptist Church. And here they are finding fellowship with the Moms for Liberty and Tom Neumark. Gross.
Anyway, the whole big deal is stupid. Yes, a lot of people are hearing a lot about transgender people for the first time in their lives. Look, gender really is a social construct and those constructs have changed over time and now women wear pants and get short haircuts and are in the military and go to college, and men change diapers. Man, that Barbie movie really did have it right. Seems like men could do a little more…Perhaps the social construct is changing a lot right now in ways some people find difficult and confusing. But you know what? Acting like an asshole isn’t actually going to stop that, and unless you can turn off the internet and the rest of society for an entire generation, you aren’t going to affect it by being mean to people who feel like they would be happier with these changes in their life. Just be nice, FFS. (P.S. We know we are preaching to the choir.)
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