I didn't see in Ursula's post what you saw in it, but I am reading it from a different angle. It's like you say there's a glacier halfway up the mountain and I can't see it from this side (maybe we're on the phone here--well, we *are* on the internet so this metaphor still works.)
There's nothing wrong with my eyes, and nothing wrong with your eyes, just because we see different things.
FWIW I don't think she consciously intended to put a glacier there... but I'm only a good judge of that to the degree I know her. Which is about as much as I know you, actually, except I know more of your friends. And I like to think the best of people.
I am happy about the developments on the LGBT front, imperfect as they are, because they are something I only recently thought might be possible. I am impressed with Senator Davis (I actually went and looked at sneakers on the internet *solely* because they were the kind she used; how shallow is *that*? Or maybe I just aspire to step into her shoes when I grow up.) But I am appalled by the damage to the VRA and the resulting Republican pounce on minority voting rights.
If I ask myself which is more important, getting to marry or getting to vote, I get confused. For goodness sake, how could anyone pick? Why should anyone have to? Can't they both be important? Can't they be important along different axes, so that we aren't moving forward or moving back but kind of slantways?
All the feels. And sometimes I want to go with one feeling and and sometimes the other and sometimes it irritates me when I come across someone in a different part of their feels cycle. (Not you. But I'm just saying.)
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I didn't see in Ursula's post what you saw in it, but I am reading it from a different angle. It's like you say there's a glacier halfway up the mountain and I can't see it from this side (maybe we're on the phone here--well, we *are* on the internet so this metaphor still works.)
There's nothing wrong with my eyes, and nothing wrong with your eyes, just because we see different things.
FWIW I don't think she consciously intended to put a glacier there... but I'm only a good judge of that to the degree I know her. Which is about as much as I know you, actually, except I know more of your friends. And I like to think the best of people.
I am happy about the developments on the LGBT front, imperfect as they are, because they are something I only recently thought might be possible. I am impressed with Senator Davis (I actually went and looked at sneakers on the internet *solely* because they were the kind she used; how shallow is *that*? Or maybe I just aspire to step into her shoes when I grow up.) But I am appalled by the damage to the VRA and the resulting Republican pounce on minority voting rights.
If I ask myself which is more important, getting to marry or getting to vote, I get confused. For goodness sake, how could anyone pick? Why should anyone have to? Can't they both be important? Can't they be important along different axes, so that we aren't moving forward or moving back but kind of slantways?
All the feels. And sometimes I want to go with one feeling and and sometimes the other and sometimes it irritates me when I come across someone in a different part of their feels cycle. (Not you. But I'm just saying.)