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Nov. 25th, 2014 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynSaw the news last night. Ain't commenting on it. If you know me you already know how I feel about it. if you don't know me-
Well.
When I was in high school, my local library had a rack of paperbacks that didn't have checkout pockets in them. Mostly it was a place for people's donated paperbacks to go so that the library could make use of them before they fell to pieces; you borrowed one and said you'd bring it back, but nobody cared if you didn't. A lot of cartoon books ended up there. I used to roam that rack to look for collections of newspaper cartoons. Found some good ones, now and again.
One day I found a Peanuts collection that I hadn't read yet, and I started thumbing through it. And all of a sudden, about ten or fifteen pages in, someone had taken a rubber stamp with an outline of a fetus and the words ABORTION KILLS and stamped the page with it. Just out of nowhere. No warning at all.
The hell.
Kept going through the book. About ten or fifteen pages later- BAM, there it was again. ABORTION KILLS. Straight to the face, fetus and all.
They'd stamped it every couple of pages through the entire book and then put the book back on the rack just so that anyone who ran across it would get their political message whether they wanted it or not. Apparently the message was more important than the reader. You came to the rack looking for Charlie Brown? ANTI-ABORTION MESSAGE. RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW. SCREW YOU.
I don't remember what I did with that book. I think I took it to the library front desk and told them someone had marked up a bunch of pages. I may have just paid the library for it- they charged maybe fifty cents for that size paperback. I don't know. But the book's lesson's stayed with me in a way I don't think the rubber stamper meant to have happen.
I do not want anyone who comes to read my stuff, whether it's written material or pictures or reblogged jokes or whatever, to get blindsided by my politics when they were looking for something else. I don't want anyone who's looking for cheese, or squid, or spiders, or things with antlers, or helicopter lessons, or any of it to have the equivalent experience of turning the page and getting the fetus stamp thrown in their face. If- IF- I post about what happened in Missouri, or about any other political situation, I'll do what I can to make it clear ahead of time and let people skip over it. I don't much intend to post about stuff like that, though; I deal with enough of it in my everyday meatspace life. I don't want me to come back to my stuff and suddenly get hit by politics out of nowhere.
So yeah. Not gonna post about what happened last night. If you know me, you probably know what I think; if you don't know me, you probably don't need to or want to know, and I'm not going to force you to find out about it.
That's all.
Well.
When I was in high school, my local library had a rack of paperbacks that didn't have checkout pockets in them. Mostly it was a place for people's donated paperbacks to go so that the library could make use of them before they fell to pieces; you borrowed one and said you'd bring it back, but nobody cared if you didn't. A lot of cartoon books ended up there. I used to roam that rack to look for collections of newspaper cartoons. Found some good ones, now and again.
One day I found a Peanuts collection that I hadn't read yet, and I started thumbing through it. And all of a sudden, about ten or fifteen pages in, someone had taken a rubber stamp with an outline of a fetus and the words ABORTION KILLS and stamped the page with it. Just out of nowhere. No warning at all.
The hell.
Kept going through the book. About ten or fifteen pages later- BAM, there it was again. ABORTION KILLS. Straight to the face, fetus and all.
They'd stamped it every couple of pages through the entire book and then put the book back on the rack just so that anyone who ran across it would get their political message whether they wanted it or not. Apparently the message was more important than the reader. You came to the rack looking for Charlie Brown? ANTI-ABORTION MESSAGE. RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW. SCREW YOU.
I don't remember what I did with that book. I think I took it to the library front desk and told them someone had marked up a bunch of pages. I may have just paid the library for it- they charged maybe fifty cents for that size paperback. I don't know. But the book's lesson's stayed with me in a way I don't think the rubber stamper meant to have happen.
I do not want anyone who comes to read my stuff, whether it's written material or pictures or reblogged jokes or whatever, to get blindsided by my politics when they were looking for something else. I don't want anyone who's looking for cheese, or squid, or spiders, or things with antlers, or helicopter lessons, or any of it to have the equivalent experience of turning the page and getting the fetus stamp thrown in their face. If- IF- I post about what happened in Missouri, or about any other political situation, I'll do what I can to make it clear ahead of time and let people skip over it. I don't much intend to post about stuff like that, though; I deal with enough of it in my everyday meatspace life. I don't want me to come back to my stuff and suddenly get hit by politics out of nowhere.
So yeah. Not gonna post about what happened last night. If you know me, you probably know what I think; if you don't know me, you probably don't need to or want to know, and I'm not going to force you to find out about it.
That's all.
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Date: 2014-11-26 02:42 pm (UTC)