Charity: literally called “it gets better.”
GOP: "The FUCK it does!"
“Not here it doesn’t; not on our watch!”
Idk adults like this are literally the point of the campaign. “As a minor you’re subjected to whatever idiocy the adults around you want to pull. It gets better when you can tell your parents to fuck off and you have money and your own place and can move out of whatever shithole you came from”
Brittany said she’s trying to be optimistic. “Yeah, it gets better,” she said. “But when is it going to get better for us, specifically?”
Honestly? When you GTFO of Lynchburg, VA kids. I don’t say that lightly, Lynchburg is about 3 and a half hours away from and about 50 years behind Washington, DC.
I mean I wouldn’t expect a town named Lynchburg to be very progressive.
It was the founder’s name, his brother was associated with lynching, but not him, iirc.
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Yes, but you move out to the sticks first.
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It sounded like the kids had some community support, too. It might just take people taking initiative to run for the school board positions and let the community know to show up and vote.
I thought about this for a couple days and I still don’t think that any bullied queer kid should hang around in Lynchburg any longer than necessary.
Change comes from the top down on issues like this.
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Change never comes from above
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_integration_in_the_United_States
That sort of thing
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Yeah, there are some parts of this country where as a queer person you’d rather be homeless in D.C. than sleep in a comfy bed in. And I don’t say that lightly, I’ve slept in a car in Ohio winters, and D.C. is that but with summers like the Everglades. But if it’s that or being the [slur] of some rural mountain town, you can find places to live and resources in D.C.
In the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia two weeks ago, a group of adults running a public meeting created a blueprint for how to belittle, betray and dismiss kids.
What the fuck?
It’s the usual “positions of power attract the worst people” kind of deal. It’s awful to think that this also applies to the people overseeing children.
Unfortunately many adults like to pick on teenagers because it makes them feel powerful and smart and they can tell themselves it’s for the kids’ good. It’s why even nearing 30 I generally support a form of youth liberation. Tempered from my 16 year old desires to do whatever I wanted, but hardened by my witnessing the sheer idiocy of over sheltered 20 year olds making decisions that would’ve been much less damaging a few years younger.
“Why do younger generations have such hatred for old people??” I wonder grandma, I wonder. I really don’t find it that hard to not do this sort of thing
It really is unbelievable how scared these people are of nothing.
They aren’t scared, they are just assholes.
They can be both.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate
It sounds like a lot of projection. They worry about indoctrination but that’s a staple of religions and the existing culture. They worry about people dressed in drag molesting kids, but as the article said, more molesters wear a black robe and collar or sweat pants and a whistle than clothing of the opposite gender.
Though the projection goes deeper than that for some of them. They worry about indoctrination because that lifestyle sounds appealing to them but they’ve already convinced themselves it was wrong and might even be jealous of kids not having to live like that after they did. They worry about people in drag molesting kids because they get uncomfortably turned on when they see that and might even be jealous that kids today might be free to explore that if they want to when they “weren’t able” to themselves.
I look forward to the day these bigots are seen in the same light as segregationists. Assuming that day comes, that is.
They probably are segregationists, too.
We see them that way now, and they don’t see segregationists the same way as everyone else.
Many of us already see them that way.
I just wished we could eliminate bigotry or at least reduce its prevalence by a few orders of magnitude.
We are one monkey finger away from segregation coming back in style.
… I could probably phrase that better.
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And these people wonder why their kids leave as soon as they are legally and/or financially able to.
Sooner, in some cases.
The archive link doesn’t work on Firefox mobile?
Someone’s got an alternative?
Reader mode worked for me on the main page.
That did it. Thanks.
