“Not worthy of further comment.” And yet the piece was powerful enough to drive you to your keyboard to complain about a beautiful and affecting poem. I look forward to not hearing from you since there is nothing left worth saying.
What a shame that you are blinded by hatred and can not just step back from judging other people and live your own life. It would be better for you and better for everyone else. Shame on you judging others.
I have been dwelling on persecution of trans people, because I see it not only as an unfair and hurtful attack on American citizens but as a warning sign of the possibility, if these are tolerated, of broader and crueler attacks to come.
And I have been dwelling on it because it targets minors and because the left's rhetoric is just that rhetoric. Given where we are at on this issue, I am on the side of reasonable conservatives. It is not a tale that, as you know because you read it yourself, that children in the 5th grade in a Vermont district will be referred to as sperm and egg producers. How is that not contributing to children's increasing mental distress? Their genders are well established by 10 years old, starting with birth. Children are absolutely being indoctrinated.
Unless and until, transgenderism is proven not to be a social contagion in minors, I will believe that it is. I am on the side of the children. I would love to know the statistics about how many children who claim trans are living in two parent homes.
I couldn't care less about how adults live their lives. It is deeply troubling that adults don't make the distinction.
For example, it is beyond me that any adult would support drag in children's spaces. How have we come to such insanity?
As I have said here before the UN penned the "Treaty of Children's Rights", it states that children is a social construct. Deeply troubling, at least to me.
I hope that in my lifetime to see more acceptance and celebration of diversity but unfortunately at this time there seems to be no path forward..especially for the trans community.
To deny people access to Healthcare is criminal.
And to hate someone based on their non conformity is just wrong.
I spoke with someone the other day who blew me away by telling me that there is no agenda to dismiss and eradicate the trans community....that it's all political....this is simply not true. The conservative *Christian * movement is behind it. Although there's nothing Christian about these haters.
I truly do not understand the people who have a problem with gender identity.
One of the kindest women (or so I thought) who is an acquaintance posts anti trans memes....when I tried to speak to her about how harmful this is she told me she'd pray for me.
I don't want prayers. I want rational people to speak up as you are.
Thank you, Will, for your words, expressed so well. Diversity and bio-diversity are, really, life---the interconnections and interdependence of all living beings that create life on earth. I think of those in fear and anger who are anti-life, the sterility of a rigid order where all are the same. Their arrogance and ignorance, their resort to violence, the diminishing of the bounty of our earth. In farming it is the monocrops lined up in rows--the fertilizers and pesticides that are toxic that kill what could save. In nature it is cutting down what is not profitable or doesn't fit our sense of beauty.
As someone who loves Hopkins and quotes him frequently, I cannot help but also send these words (with many lines omitted) from some of his other poems that speak to me everyday, and speak to all you are saying:
God's Grandeur:
The world is charged with the grandeur of God
Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod and trod and trod
And all is seared with trade, bleared, seared with toil
the soil is bare now, nor can foot feel being shod.
And for all this Nature is never spent
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things,,,
And when i see deforestation, i think of Hopkins" Binsey Poplars"
My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled
quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun
all felled, felled, are all felled.
O if we but knew
what we do when we delve or hew
Hack and rack the growing green
Aftercomers cannot guess the beauty been
strokes of havoc unselve
the sweet especial scene.
Hopkins saw the beauty and bounty of every sentient being and used words to capture. The book "The Immense World" explores the extraordinary and very different senses of every being. May we all be awake.
So well spoken! Thank you! When I was young I thought (incorrectly) that when I was old that we would not see people by their race, color sexual preferences and instead would treat others as we want to be treated. It seems to me that we have not come very far with equality for all, Predigest and hate continue to be passed down generational.
Did you ever watch the movie "The Green Book"? If so, did you have the mistaken thought that there is no longer a need for a book like that? The information on safe travel for LGBTQ and Travelers of Color still exits in Moon travel books today. It deeply saddens me to think there is still a need in our country for advice relating to personal safety against hatred.
Silence is basically agreeing with hateful statements. Come up with a sentence or two that you can comfortablely say in response to predigest statements. It does not have to be aggressive to be powerful.
Amen. Hopkins was a member of the SocietyOf Jesus, aka “god’s Marines”, and this openness to the real world is typical — and well worth emulating in these days of misguided macho. I learned “Pied Beauty “ in 10th grade, seven decades ago, and have never lost its meaning.
The harsh backlash is scary and it is hard to be optimistic about cooler heads and warmer hearts prevailing here. I will hold on to hope and support voices that make more sense vs the loud and misinformed.
Here we go again, so much transgender activism on this site.
This piece is pure rubbish. Not worthy of further comment.
Yet here you are. Again.
Why are you scared Sophia?
Why do you hate the trans community?
Why do you bother to comment if it's rubbish to you?
Take your hate and go away.
“Not worthy of further comment.” And yet the piece was powerful enough to drive you to your keyboard to complain about a beautiful and affecting poem. I look forward to not hearing from you since there is nothing left worth saying.
What a shame that you are blinded by hatred and can not just step back from judging other people and live your own life. It would be better for you and better for everyone else. Shame on you judging others.
As I have asked before and you have not answered, do you actually know a single transgender person?
I have been dwelling on persecution of trans people, because I see it not only as an unfair and hurtful attack on American citizens but as a warning sign of the possibility, if these are tolerated, of broader and crueler attacks to come.
And I have been dwelling on it because it targets minors and because the left's rhetoric is just that rhetoric. Given where we are at on this issue, I am on the side of reasonable conservatives. It is not a tale that, as you know because you read it yourself, that children in the 5th grade in a Vermont district will be referred to as sperm and egg producers. How is that not contributing to children's increasing mental distress? Their genders are well established by 10 years old, starting with birth. Children are absolutely being indoctrinated.
Unless and until, transgenderism is proven not to be a social contagion in minors, I will believe that it is. I am on the side of the children. I would love to know the statistics about how many children who claim trans are living in two parent homes.
I couldn't care less about how adults live their lives. It is deeply troubling that adults don't make the distinction.
For example, it is beyond me that any adult would support drag in children's spaces. How have we come to such insanity?
As I have said here before the UN penned the "Treaty of Children's Rights", it states that children is a social construct. Deeply troubling, at least to me.
What about attacks on children?
Thank you Will .
The struggles of being *different * are real.
I hope that in my lifetime to see more acceptance and celebration of diversity but unfortunately at this time there seems to be no path forward..especially for the trans community.
To deny people access to Healthcare is criminal.
And to hate someone based on their non conformity is just wrong.
I spoke with someone the other day who blew me away by telling me that there is no agenda to dismiss and eradicate the trans community....that it's all political....this is simply not true. The conservative *Christian * movement is behind it. Although there's nothing Christian about these haters.
I truly do not understand the people who have a problem with gender identity.
One of the kindest women (or so I thought) who is an acquaintance posts anti trans memes....when I tried to speak to her about how harmful this is she told me she'd pray for me.
I don't want prayers. I want rational people to speak up as you are.
We can bring down the hate if we're united .
Thank you again Will for your voice.
Thank you, Will, for your words, expressed so well. Diversity and bio-diversity are, really, life---the interconnections and interdependence of all living beings that create life on earth. I think of those in fear and anger who are anti-life, the sterility of a rigid order where all are the same. Their arrogance and ignorance, their resort to violence, the diminishing of the bounty of our earth. In farming it is the monocrops lined up in rows--the fertilizers and pesticides that are toxic that kill what could save. In nature it is cutting down what is not profitable or doesn't fit our sense of beauty.
As someone who loves Hopkins and quotes him frequently, I cannot help but also send these words (with many lines omitted) from some of his other poems that speak to me everyday, and speak to all you are saying:
God's Grandeur:
The world is charged with the grandeur of God
Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod and trod and trod
And all is seared with trade, bleared, seared with toil
the soil is bare now, nor can foot feel being shod.
And for all this Nature is never spent
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things,,,
And when i see deforestation, i think of Hopkins" Binsey Poplars"
My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled
quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun
all felled, felled, are all felled.
O if we but knew
what we do when we delve or hew
Hack and rack the growing green
Aftercomers cannot guess the beauty been
strokes of havoc unselve
the sweet especial scene.
Hopkins saw the beauty and bounty of every sentient being and used words to capture. The book "The Immense World" explores the extraordinary and very different senses of every being. May we all be awake.
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So well spoken! Thank you! When I was young I thought (incorrectly) that when I was old that we would not see people by their race, color sexual preferences and instead would treat others as we want to be treated. It seems to me that we have not come very far with equality for all, Predigest and hate continue to be passed down generational.
Did you ever watch the movie "The Green Book"? If so, did you have the mistaken thought that there is no longer a need for a book like that? The information on safe travel for LGBTQ and Travelers of Color still exits in Moon travel books today. It deeply saddens me to think there is still a need in our country for advice relating to personal safety against hatred.
Silence is basically agreeing with hateful statements. Come up with a sentence or two that you can comfortablely say in response to predigest statements. It does not have to be aggressive to be powerful.
Gina LeClair
Amen. Hopkins was a member of the SocietyOf Jesus, aka “god’s Marines”, and this openness to the real world is typical — and well worth emulating in these days of misguided macho. I learned “Pied Beauty “ in 10th grade, seven decades ago, and have never lost its meaning.
We emerge from the same place and all return there as well. How could we not be connected?
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
Beautiful
The harsh backlash is scary and it is hard to be optimistic about cooler heads and warmer hearts prevailing here. I will hold on to hope and support voices that make more sense vs the loud and misinformed.