Monday Musing 6/12/23-the dreaded blank page

I certainly don’t want to write a debbie downer post.

Again.

In the last several weeks, I have written about abortion (again), and LGBTQ+ rights, and trans rights.

And today I do not want to gin up the outrage to write about those topics. They will be revisited as long as the attacks on women and our bodily autonomy, and the attacks on LGBTQ+ and trans rights keep happening.

But I am tired of shouting into the void about these topics.

And those who seek the power and control wonder about the state of mental health in the country.

It’s the constant grounding down of our rights, stupid.

And the removal of books.

And the banning of books.

Did you know that this isn’t a real problem?

Nope, it is a holy war by a handful of people. Who spread their hate like poison.

Who want to drag everyone in this society back to when they were comfortable.

The 1950s.

When men were men!

And women were subservient.

News flash!

The desire for body autonomy for everyone regardless of what they perceive to be their truth existed back then. As did the LGBTQ+ community.

The thing is the voices of the few are drowning out the more reasonable voices.

Loud does not make right.

And by right I mean correct.

I understand that you are scared and frightened of changes.

I am speaking to the “I don’t like it therefore you can’t have it crowd.”

What if I do like bodily autonomy, and the rights of people to be who they are and love who they love, and readers who want to read what they want.

So, what?

If you don’t want to change your gender identity, don’t.

If you don’t want to read that book, don’t.

If you don’t want a marriage with another person of the same gender, don’t.

If you don’t want bodily autonomy, find someone who will make all the decisions for you.

If you don’t want other people to read that book/identify as a different gender/have bodily autonomy because you want the control dammit because you don’t agree with it?

Then we have a problem.

The thing is these attacks on these groups is very much top of mind these days. And all days.

I will continue to write about them.

To think I was concerned about a blank blog post.

And thinking I would be able to write about anything other than the attacks on women and LGBTQ+ and books because some old white man/woman wants to erase all the progress that blood and tears and lives have bought over the last eighty years.

Silly me.