This is a complete fiction. 86% of K-8 teachers are female. It's an absurd claim to say that they all go by Ms. and none by Mrs. or none are ever pregnant. I taught a mentoring group of middle grade kids for a decade until 2016 and they knew the status of all their teachers. 1/
Plus, every kids' movie, TV show and book has stories about romance and parents and a wide range of heterosexual themes. So you have to toss all of those. No pairings of any sort. So no Frozen or Encanto or My Little Mermaid. And no Goodnight Moon, written by a lesbian.
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Also, this lady is a right-wing extremist lauded by the likes of Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager. Her anti-LGBTQ biases are the basis for her celebrity. It's all she thinks about or writes about. People like this are dangerous to our kids who live in a multicultural world.
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The result of promoting the extremist anti-LGBTQ activism of someone like Shrier is harm to LGBTQ people--especially teens, as I wrote here. epgn.com/2022/03/31/don…
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A friend sent me this last week--a post purportedly from a Florida teacher after the #DontSayGay law passed. It speaks directly to Ron DeSantis, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton, Marsha Blackburn, Abigail Shrier & their anti-LGBTQ cohort. It's a powerful refutation of their policies.
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Hating this debate, which reminds me yet again that Philadelphians are so much more progressive than mid-state. Malcolm Kenyatta even looks like he's from a different century than Conor Lamb. #pasen
Kenyatta speaking out on green energy--like Biden-Harris. Lamb speaking out for fracking. Yikes. #pasen
Lamb doesn't answer the question. Kenyatta talks about the groundwater and about environmental racism. He also invokes how Josh Shapiro has been prosecuting fracking. #pasen
I spent my entire PTSD therapy session talking about how under threat I feel due to all the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and hundreds of anti-LGBTQ laws being promoted and passed. I could feel my BP rising as we talked. My therapist warned me it was only going to get worse.
For those unaware of the orchestrated assault on LGBTQ Americans by the GOP as was highlighted during the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings, I wrote about it here: epgn.com/2022/03/23/ket…
Also, there are literally HUNDREDS of anti-LGBTQ laws in state legislatures right now. I reported on that here. Please read/RT epgn.com/2022/03/23/rec…
Violent abusive men who should have their Oscars stripped before Will Smith.
Charlie Chaplin
Harvey Weinstein
Roman Polanski
Mel Gibson
Woody Allen
Kevin Spacey
Casey Affleck
Gary Oldman
Sean Penn
Quentin Tarantino
Jared Leto
Bryan Singer
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Some of these men have made among the most iconic films in Hollywood history. Hitchcock and Tarantino were abusive to women. Uma Thurman accused Tarantino of abuse and Tarantino said he "only" choked her and spit on her during filming.
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Roman Polanski was convicted of raping a girl anally, orally and vaginally at Jack Nicholson's house. She had just turned 13. Before he was scheduled to go to prison, Polanski fled the US. He has continued to make films and won an Oscar in 2003, 26yrs after the rape.
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So after reading a bazillion Twitter threads and think pieces on The Slap, I wrote something completely different about violence in America and the privilege inherent in saying violence is always wrong. I hope you'll read this.
"Is violence sometimes necessary, as Malcolm X once suggested, for oppressed people? Weren’t many advocating 'punching Nazis' throughout the white supremacist Trump years? Didn’t we talk obsessively as a nation about killing Osama bin Laden after 9/11?" epgn.com/2022/03/30/is-…
"Another truth is that America is the most violent country in the world that isn’t actually a rogue state, with over 500 million guns. In 2020 there were more than 40,000 gun deaths and more than a quarter million shootings."
Is Violence Always Wrong? epgn.com/2022/03/30/is-…
So I lost over 200 followers last night who said I was "condoning violence." I wasn't. Saying you understand someone's anger doesn't mean you condone violence. I explicitly stated I did not. But I have been the person with a disabling illness and also,now, the spouse of one.
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I've lost my hair to chemo in my 20s when I had breast cancer and 5yrs ago when I was paralyzed from a catastrophic injury. It's terrible. I'm very grateful my hair grew back, albeit a different color and texture. If your hair is defining (mine always was for me) it's hard.
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For several weeks my wife, who is never ill, has been unwell and going through myriad tests and biopsies. She's in pain and very debilitated. It's been horrible for her/us. These things made me empathetic to Jada Pinkett Smith and also understanding of Will Smith's anger.
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So I left Twitter early Friday night because it's been a hellish week for me as a reporter & a lesbian & there were a bunch of folks in my mentions literally telling me #DontSayGay. It was just too much. Twitter's a big place. Exercise that option to just keep scrolling.
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Don't tell people in historically marginalized groups not to talk about being members of marginalized communities. We are the ones dealing with discrimination,not you. Instead you could figure out ways to be supportive and an ally. Otherwise you can always just say nothing.
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While navigating the healthcare system for my wife's care in the midst of her health crisis the past 10days I had to come out to more than a dozen strangers who would then be responsible for her care. Try & imagine what that would be like in the current political atmosphere.
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