The young ladies
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bill_schubertTwo things cut deep into me over the past day or two.
Initially is a story told first hand by one of the Mystic camp counsellors (the counsellors are 18 and younger) that they wrote their names on their own bodies and then wrote the children's names on their bodies.. That particular insight into the desperation got to me when the rest is just noise. That they would even think of doing that is amazing but that they were so sure that it would be needed speaks volumes that the pictures and all the rest somehow don't do for me.
And then, unfortunately, I read some of what Abbot said while kissing Turmp's ass as he always does, as everyone eventually seems to do. He managed to offend me for some reason by referring to the children who were writing their names on their bodies as 'the young ladies'. [Gov. Greg Abbott said Trump "cares a lot about those young ladies"] Like they were at a cotillion and dressed in gowns. It is my prejudice, I think, but the unconscious gender specific pushing them into their boxes even in the middle of all this solidified, once again, how far apart I am from the majority of the environment in which I live.
Initially is a story told first hand by one of the Mystic camp counsellors (the counsellors are 18 and younger) that they wrote their names on their own bodies and then wrote the children's names on their bodies.. That particular insight into the desperation got to me when the rest is just noise. That they would even think of doing that is amazing but that they were so sure that it would be needed speaks volumes that the pictures and all the rest somehow don't do for me.
And then, unfortunately, I read some of what Abbot said while kissing Turmp's ass as he always does, as everyone eventually seems to do. He managed to offend me for some reason by referring to the children who were writing their names on their bodies as 'the young ladies'. [Gov. Greg Abbott said Trump "cares a lot about those young ladies"] Like they were at a cotillion and dressed in gowns. It is my prejudice, I think, but the unconscious gender specific pushing them into their boxes even in the middle of all this solidified, once again, how far apart I am from the majority of the environment in which I live.
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Date: 2025-07-11 07:39 (UTC)