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soldierant

(8,151 posts)
26. You put me to shame
Sat Aug 24, 2024, 04:20 PM
Aug 2024

for failing to remember my own white cis privilege. (At least I'm female.) Not to mention differences of environment. I grew up in California, in the same city that Stanford is in. For much of my childhood the district I lived in voted Republican, but that was not as damning a fact then as it would be now. I had sex education in junior high, bt I didn't really learn anything as my mother had given me a book when I was about 8. That may sound like a cop-out - but she knew I'd rather read than listen And it covered everything that was i the 9th grade class and more. But it didn't cover anything non-binary. But we did talk at home about Christine Jorgenson. So I at least knew that trans people existed and that they were just people who happened to have been born with a soul that didn't match their bodies. No big deal. Your chilhood and teens would have been) much worse. (BTW the address I gre up at is now in a district that is Democratic by 26 points.)

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This is INSANITY! We're not going back!!!!! n/t iluvtennis Aug 2024 #1
Looks like Oklahoma is giving desantis a run for his money. rubbersole Aug 2024 #2
Dammit. I may have to change my name! dameatball Aug 2024 #11
Oh, I read that as three words JoseBalow Aug 2024 #18
Brag, brag, brag... rubbersole Aug 2024 #25
Oklahoma is following Texas down the Taliban rabbit hole. Lonestarblue Aug 2024 #3
Yep ArkansasDemocrat1 Aug 2024 #9
A close friend moved from here moonscape Aug 2024 #27
I'd rather live in Tulsa than OKC ArkansasDemocrat1 Aug 2024 #28
I always thought the thing about Obama being taught in madrassas was stupid.... AZ8theist Aug 2024 #16
Massive wrongful firing lawsuit. Massive. n/t PatrickforB Aug 2024 #4
Illinois will welcome her. sinkingfeeling Aug 2024 #5
Absolutely! ShazzieB Aug 2024 #10
This is public information. This effort will fail unless they shut down the internet. erronis Aug 2024 #6
also , data scrambling . AllaN01Bear Aug 2024 #8
The problem is... jmowreader Aug 2024 #23
That's right. ShazzieB Aug 2024 #12
i hope the teacher sues . back to the 1950s we go. AllaN01Bear Aug 2024 #7
I remember the fifties being bad, but not this bad. soldierant Aug 2024 #13
I grew up gay a half century ago in markodochartaigh Aug 2024 #20
You put me to shame soldierant Aug 2024 #26
They don't want to go back to the 1950s..... AZ8theist Aug 2024 #17
The Repression party (formerly, Republican) is now full-blown Talibangelical. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2024 #14
Oklahoma DENVERPOPS Aug 2024 #15
"I will not apologize for sharing publicly available information about library access..." JoseBalow Aug 2024 #19
I'm waiting for Summer Boismier holding up a T-shirt with her retirement date... thanks to the..... usaf-vet Aug 2024 #21
Losing one's teaching license for helping students access books is a badge of honor. ancianita Aug 2024 #22
A lot of my family is from Oklahoma tirebiter Aug 2024 #24
Amazing, isn't it.......... MyOwnPeace Aug 2024 #29
Former Norman High School teacher's certificate revoked after two years of turmoil, Walters says mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 #30
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