From bathroom policies to free birth control, we’ve sexualized our culture to the point that it’s actually killing us.
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Sex is not a new invention of the twenty-first century. But sexuality seems to be the great divider of our day, and you are among the groups polarizing people in order to seem relevant. Please just remember: gay or straight or transgender, we are all human beings, and for that alone we all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
No Josh, you are the sexualised.
And then the FRC were Hypocritical zombies.
@Happy Atheist
Examples of deaths, please?
Themselves. When they allowed what is supposed to be anathema to them - Josh Buggar - to represent their interests.
It's "actually" killing "us"?
Explosive traps wired to unisex toilets!
Condoms that make your dick fall off!
Of all the stupid shit to worry about right now...
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hrm...it seems to me that the bathroom policies have been instated because of organizations like FRC wanted laws discriminating transgendered people. The FRC brought that one on themselves.
As for free birth control, it's a lot cheaper and safer than abstinence. The FRC brought that upon themselves as well.
@Phil O'Macedon:
Yeah, but I love just following each answer with "why/how/who" in cases like this. Usually only takes two or three rounds before they run out of places to hide and have to admit (whether openly or by default) that their entire argument rests on "because I say so" or "because the Bible/pastor says so". There's a name for the method but I can never remember it. Named for some Roman philosopher, if memory serves.
Funny, but those who scream themselves raw over how we have sexualised society are generally the ones who cannot think in other terms.
When you listen to muslim fundies talking about how the west has sexualised women, their answer is to make women wear clothes which identify them clearly as women and which state that they are, as soon as they appear in public, objects of temptation that need to be hidden, in order to remain pure. It also states that men simply cannot restraint themselves if women are not bundled up like mummies.
Their christian counterparts have always put a huge emphasis on sexual so-called sin, whereas Jesus said very little about the subject.
So, sure, modern society is blatant about sex. There is very little hidden and that is the difference with what came previously. However, those who say that society did not think in those terms before simply do not comprehend that the mechanism was simply inverse: society was deeply sexualised, but only tried to hide that sexuality, mostly that of women, moreover.
I don't have any statistics on the matter, but I'm pretty sure most transgenders identify as heterosexual, meaning they have little sexual interest in non transgenders in the bathrooms they wish to use. As for free birth control, that cuts down not only on abortion, but also the number of unwed mothers, which is one of the single best predicting factors in whether or not a child will grow having problems or become involved in criminal activity. Free birth control does the opposite of "actually killing us".
I read the full context of this quote at the link, and it seems they're talking about STDs. Bathroom policies have nothing to do with STDs. As for birth control, acknowledging that young people are going to engage in sexual activity and having a response to that other than shaking your head and insisting that they be punished for it is not the same thing as encouraging everyone to have sex with a different partner every day or something like that.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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