have courage & be kind

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My fave part:

she did eventually find a reasonable gyno who prescribed her progesterone, and surprise, it worked. but imagine if she was another woman with the same problem who wasn’t as educated about cycles as my mom? and trusted that burning her uterus was the only way?

Christ Learning to Read (1910-1914). Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859-1937). Oil on canvas. Des Moines Art Center.

The follow up questions are:

• Do you think this is an isolated incident?

• If it is, how would you know for sure?

(Use the word for what they really are - children - no one wants to admit to being a pedophile and when they realise they are you either stop them or show them for the pedophiles they really are.

The pedophiles will always try to explain away how teenagers and ‘almost-legal’ girls are basically the same as legally aged women. Follow this up with: So if 17 is okay because it’s almost 18 does it follow that 16 is okay because it’s nearly 17 which is basically the same as 18? Then 15 is basically 16… 14 is basically 15… 13… 12… 11… where does the line get drawn if crossing the line is okay? And if crossing the line is okay when it is close enough - then wherever a new line is drawn will it also be okay to cross? Where does it stop? Where is your actual bottom line of what’s okay?

Do you think sex trafficking in porn is an isolated incident? If it is, how would you know for sure? If it’s not, what is the acceptable number of forced and raped women and children you would accept in your porn?

Women are drugged to support the porn industry that everyone who watches porn props up. The consumption of porn is tacit support for sexual exploitation and slavery. People need to get over their pathetic and childish insatiability for easy sexual gratification, stop letting porn control and rot their brains, and realize that actions have consequences even when they feel good.

Performers are drugged for a reason. Performers commit suicide for a reason. Performers are black listed by others in the industry when they speak out on abuse for a reason.

What if one of your uncles was exposed as a rapist/pedophile/serial killer (or something equally as heinous). He lives in another state, you met him maybe twice in your whole life. You have a big family, he was just another uncle, and suddenly he is nationally exposed as this horrible predator. 

Is it okay for the country as a whole to vilify you and your family? Is it okay that strangers set fire to your family home? Not the uncle’s home, your home - that’s totally understandable, right? You’re his family. It’s your fault too, just by sharing DNA with him.

Remember, you’ve met him briefly. Or maybe he came every Christmas and no red flags were raised - maybe he was adept at hiding his perversions. Or maybe you’ve never met him in your life. Maybe you didn’t even know you had that uncle, and live halfway across the world! But still, it’s totally okay for strangers to get you fired from your job, blow up your car, set fire to your home, tear up everyone in your family’s precious heirlooms - he shares your DNA, so you deserve everything coming to you.

Why is the above scenario ludicrous when it seems that the vast majority of society has this attitude towards Catholics? Why do people bend over backward to justify that Christians and Catholics in the Middle East are persecuted, that Notre Dame catching fire doesn’t matter, that so many Syrian Catholics were killed on Easter?

“Well if priests didn’t rape kids, if those nuns at my high school weren’t so mean, if my parents didn’t manipulate me using religion, MAYBE this wouldn’t happen!” 

Translation: the uncle you never met was Charles Manson, so your family, cousins, great aunts, and family pets all deserve to be tortured, burned alive, massacred. 

“Heh, Gotcha!”