@diurnalfreak666 I'm not trying to convince them though, I'm telling them that when they use Christianity, or any religion, as a club to justify their homophobia, it disgusts me on a visceral level.
I'm not a practicing Christian for very personal reasons. However, my brother has his Master's in Divinity from a serious college and he's had people be utterly vicious to him, and justify it under the name of God.
It's clear that you poastoids have never spoken to an actual non-terminally offended gay person, and you've never spoken to queer people who have had to make the painful decision to leave their hometowns and sometimes family behind.
@EvilSandmich You know what, normally I'd let this go, but no, fuck you.
I didn't spend a month full of sleepless nights trying to get my now ex-boyfriend out of Russia into a safe place because he was morified that he would be beaten and potentially murdered because he's a pervert — I did that because he's a person worthy of respect, dignity and kindness.
I didn't pick up phone calls in the middle of the night from sobbing friends who are suicidal because they're perverts. I did it because someone fucking needed to be kind to them. I did it because they need SOMEONE who cares.
I can't tell you how many people end up in really fucked up situations because their family, the people who are supposed to LOVE THEM no matter what turned their back on them.
They want to be seen, they want to be heard, they want to be LOVED. What the fuck is wrong with you where you DO NOT SEE THAT.
If you genuinely think shit like this, I hope you never have children. If you have children, I hope you realize that your love for them is conditional.
Somewhere, there's a kid who believes he's better off being dead than being gay/bi/lesbian/trans. And the fact that some of you on this end of fedi think that's a good thing is something that needs to be examined more.
I don't know at what point you decided that someone is better off dead than queer, but don't you fucking dare call yourselves christians ever again.
I listened to my gay uncles talk about "what it was like when I was younger" and it's fucking crushing.
It's why I'm so proud of my brother who is openly bisexual, and unfraid of being loud about it.
I know people on this side of fedi find it annoying, but if you talk to older gay/bi/lesbian people, you realize that a lot of it just standing up and flexing and say "no, you're not pushing us back into hiding anymore." blob
@coolboymew The amount of people who I've talked to who genuinely grew to like subjects they hated in school (literature, history, art, math, etc.) once they became adults is shockingly high. My sister is an artist, she LOATHED art classes, even in university she hated them. Now she's an artist and she makes more than me, funny how that works. @Pawlicker@disclosetv@Twoinchdestroya@graf@DocScranton@jeffcliff
@Pawlicker We presented the kids with realistic, age-appropriate scenarios that they would encounter in a francophone country/area on a regular basis. For example with the upper beginner kids, we'd have them order a pizza from the kitchen and it would get delivered. This covers: - lower-intermediate/upper-beginner vocabulary and sentence structure - numbers and prices - times (eg. your pizza will be ready at 2:15pm. How long until then?)
@Pawlicker I used to be a camp counselor for 10 years, my theory is that children's need for stimulation and just moving around a lot doesn't sit well with the overall school model of conformity and repetition. Seldom are you taught to form your own opinions, your own theories, to really ask WHY things are the way they are. If you are, it's probably in a university philosophy course. I worked at both a language immersion camp (French), as well as a camp for children who are on the spectrum or something similar. Shockingly, kids did a lot better at picking up the "boring" concepts (for example, the verbs conjugated with être rather than with avoir) when it wasn't just sitting in a classroom, but rather stuff they'd use in daily life. It's almost as if there's a connection there. @DocScranton@Twoinchdestroya@coolboymew@disclosetv@graf@jeffcliff
@coolboymew I think the most mind-boggling part is you have people acting like "ohh, only the coomers are mad about this. porn addicts on suicide watch" instead of the reasonable "hey? what the fuck!" @jeffcliff@graf@Twoinchdestroya@disclosetv
@coolboymew people were making fun of furry coomers for being against this sort of thing but they've very much got a point. Not only is it a major privacy/security risk, it's also a 1st amendment violation.
I hate to sound like a canceldon faggot but also there's the accessibility issues (Captcha has previously been blasted for this, aside from the fact that it doesn't fucking work)
@graf NC wants a similar thing in the US for adult sites. and I understand their point because keeping kids away from porn is always good but holy fuck I just do not feel comfortable uploading that info, no matter how horny I am. @jeffcliff@coolboymew@Twoinchdestroya@disclosetv