So. Let me tell you what happened.
Remember a week or two ago when I wrote about someone asking me if I was an atheist? That I am on some Christian right wing website?
Well, my girlfriend Drew came by my house to tell me that there may be a stink about to start. Her husband's mom had called him to tell him that she had heard that he was associated with a witch. She had found the website (witch vox) and "the stuff I read just made me sick to my stomach". Anyway, Drew's hubby proceeded to tell his mom that she and all her friends needed to "mind your own damned business, and if you really knew her you would not even consider the things that you are thinking about her" Which was really nice. But rather than subject my friends and family to this stupid shit, I decided to just make a fresh start.
Remember how in the 80s we were not allowed to like Fleetwood Mac because Stevie Nicks was a witch who worshiped satan and sacrificed babies on 6/6/86? Well, I was really afraid that this HIGHLY influential person at my kids' school would paint me that way. And that, as I put it to Drew, that my friends would be tainted with the brush of witchcraft. And, yes, I said that with my tongue firmly in my cheek. And, hell, if this was in the utmost of everyone's minds around here? I just needed to make it disappear so they could find something else to think about.
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I try to tell myself that narrow-minded people hate those that are different from them because they are afraid and just don't know any better. I know there are people out there who don't like me for no other reason than because I love a woman, but I've never been hurt by their asshole-ness, so I just roll my eyes and walk away. I'm sorry if you've been hurt.
Kitties: Congrats on your new additions. I don't think anybody can beat me & Vic, though, when it comes to kitties. We have 12 kitties - all INDOOR - and one new outside friend. We call him Flea, because he wears a flea collar. We haven't seen Macy, our other outside buddy, in months. We tell ourselves she went to Florida with her other snowbird family and will be back in the Spring.
Some people really need to mind their own fucking business. If the Fundies spent the amount of time and energy on helping the poor and homeless that they do on pushing their view of things down everyone else's throats, then the world would be a much better place! Grrr!
I really struggle with this whole thing. I simply don't understand it. How can people be so small minded and absolutely hateful?
This all reminds me of the Phillip Pullman movie just out - and why, in the name of all that's holy, do they feel so threatened? I don't get it.
But totally - if you have the ability to turn these people into frogs, by all means, do so.
And my two kittehs say hallo to yours! How exciting!
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