Transphobes & misogynists: “Hardly any men! How dare you say our p*nises are weapons to be feared. We are heroic protectors & women who deny it should be mauled by the bear or meet a (racist slur) in a dark alley (guffaw).” 1/
Also transphobes & misogynists: “Poor babies! Of course you tremble in triggered fear of a deadly weapon: suspected p*nis (if present possibly smaller & more flaccid from hormones, or absent altogether) in a closed stall ten feet from a public hallway! We’ll save you!” 2/
(By coming in with you, as suggested by the biggest name trad wife here. The mind boggles). 3/
“Bathroom use according to birth certificate only, or punished by arrests and/or 10k bounties. Don’t you feel great about all the bearded trans men who’ll joining you? No p*nis = no stress or danger. What’s that? How will you know? You can always tell!” End.
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Good job Jesuits for listening to true experts on liberation theology, the people living it, & using your male & clergy privilege to amplify message by travel, writing, & teaching. Helped that they cooked your food & cleaned your toilets of course. 2/
Señora Ramos & her husband were driven from their farming village by paramilitary forces. Their community shattered & dispersed, they moved to San Salvador to perform manual labor at the Jesuit university: he as a gardener & she as a housekeeper. 3/
@MRibnek @rtrolly Here too. My personal story & vocation as theologian & spiritual director double helix of building & spreading trauma- & actual intersectional justice-informed Ignatian spirituality & fighting like hell against the full & partial abuse inflicting & enabling versions.
@MRibnek @rtrolly Recent pilgrimage to Montserrat, Manresa, & Loyola was quite the processing mix of glorious & hideous & in between interactions & experience with Jesuits.
@MRibnek @rtrolly Undergrad: wonderful initiation to individual & group Ignatian spirituality plus nightmarish enablement & report botching of clergy/professor sexual & emotional abuse. Protestant perp whose wife I knew & liked so even more shame & trauma than SJ who would only be cheating on God.
To my trans friends & followers & your loved ones:
I am so angry & so grieved at the evil that has gained power & the evils it aims to impose.
I believe a loving Higher Power—however that might look for you—is even more angry & grieved. 1)
Especially at the sacrilegious misuse of religion for mortal harms to people wondrously & beautifully made in the divine image.
I would be honored to hold you in prayer if you would like. You can respond here or by DM, including any special intentions. 2)
I am also offering support & resistance via free & totally confidential sessions in my spiritual direction/companioning practice—similar to coaching, but with a different training & certification process. 3)
Just heard my first anti-Harris Gaza ad. Yet another screamingly obvious hypocrisy except to his cult members. Obviously from Trump campaign—leftists who actually oppose genocide are speaking out in various outlets but aren’t paying for ads AFAIK. Stein not mentioned. 1)
Trump wasn’t mentioned either. All it said was Harris is spilling blood in Gaza & putting Israel over “us.” Zero claim Trump would do anything different, so one lie they actually skipped since he would obviously be at least as bad & probably worse even just on this. 3)
Rips my Michigan heart out especially as I live in Detroit 7 minutes from Hamtramck & 15 from Dearborn. Many people with literal families & friends endangered, wounded, & slaughtered so their rightful anti genocide fury could make pushing the Dem button feel nauseous. 4)
I couldn’t be more pro choice & more furious at bans & lies. But gloatingly claiming that miscarriages are abortions is not just cruel to those of us who have had them, but scientifically incorrect. 1)
Abortion is shorthand general medical term for a pregnancy that ends without live birth before roughly 20 weeks, after which it is called stillbirth. But full correct term for chosen procedure is induced abortion, while miscarriage is spontaneous abortion. 2)
Obviously opposites, which it is why it’s so hurtful —and counter productive & credibility losing —to gleefully & inaccurately throw the partial term in the face of people who oppose all abortion & have, or someday might, experience loss of a desired pregnancy. 3)