Maybe I need to go live in a cave somewhere. Or at least unplug my Internet.
I usually avoid the front page of Susan's because of the depressing headlines. But a new one just popped up on my Facebook feed. Here are four headlines that I collected in less than a minute without hardly trying (one was not from Susan's):
- This Lawmaker Wants To Make Absolutely Sure No Law Protects Transgender People
- HRC Condemns House Freedom Caucus' Alarming Demand to Revoke Crucially Important LGBTQ Protections
- Trump Ally Calls for Incoming Administration to Purge State Department of Pro-LGBTQ Employees
- University ignored warnings about far-right speaker, leaving him free to bully trans student on stage
I have to read the articles because I have to know the enemy. But then I know. :(
I know the news is not all bad, and I rejoice in the victories large and small that the members here share. I know that the dinosaurs will not last forever. But it is hard to bear the gleeful hate as they rise to power.
I just need a good AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
That feels (a bit) better.
I see the headlines, and it's a nine year old transgender girl on the front cover of National Geographic. That gives me hope. Hope that the days of hiding are over. Don't dwell on bad news when there's so much good to be found.
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: KathyLauren on December 20, 2016, 10:12:00 AM
Maybe I need to go live in a cave somewhere. Or at least unplug my Internet.
I haven't read a newspaper, watched TV or listened to the radio since early November. I unplugged it all.
And I'm a political junkie!Plus side. I've read a lot about transgender history since then. And I read this forum a lot more.
Quote from: Jane Emily on December 20, 2016, 11:25:58 AM
I haven't read a newspaper, watched TV or listened to the radio since early November. I unplugged it all.
And I'm a political junkie!
Same here. And I feel a lot less stressed I have to say. It might be a total "head in the sand" denial tactic but I just have no better way of coping at the moment.
Same here. After the election I pretty much stopped reading / watching news. I simply could not deal with it. It is better now but I am not back to my usual news consumption. I am really scared about the next 4 years :o
You all are right, of course. I shouldn't read the bad news, but I just can't help it. And, Devlyn, I am looking forward to getting that issue of National Geographic in the mail. It should be here this week. Yes, there is good news, too. Thank goodness.
I find the news out of the USA utterly depressing as well.
There's the odd ray of light. That National Geographic is really amazing, and I thought this article was hopeful.
https://www.wired.com/2016/12/dont-let-trumps-win-fool-americas-getting-liberal/
Thank you for that link, AnonyMs. Most uplifting!
As a race, humans in general need to just, finally....evolve.
~Trystlynn
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on December 20, 2016, 11:21:58 AM
I see the headlines, and it's a nine year old transgender girl on the front cover of National Geographic. That gives me hope. Hope that the days of hiding are over. Don't dwell on bad news when there's so much good to be found.
Hugs, Devlyn
The sociopath right is organizing boycotts against NatGeo because of this article. I read somewhere this little girl is receiving death threats. Absurd.
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I limit my contact to the news especially for our American friends who could be in for one hell of a ride over the next 4 years...
Anything I read coming out of there feels like its time to batten down the hatches...feels like a storm is brewing...
Liz
I don't bother with TV news, radio news or printed news. It's all junk. Online I don't read it either. I stopped my smartphone subscription and went back to an ordinary text and Talk phone. I use free wifi when I can.
The more I see of electronics and the internet the more I dislike them. It all seems so catchpenny. In fact, today I bought a couple of books!
I think it's easy to get worried by rubbish spouted online and in the press. You just have to remember if it comes from the media the odds are it's deliberately misrepresented nonsense.
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The news in general sucks these days. Even worse when there's usually an ideological agenda attached to it.
Just take a break from it. None of us are getting medals for carrying the weight of the world.
sadly my brain has been desensitized as far as the news which is good because when I was in college I complained to my Psychiatrist that I couldn't even read the newspaper because I would cry . Of course that was the year that Nixon through the Constitution in the toilet. I hope not to offend anyone by my example of news going sour.
KathyLauran, the noise from the media can do devastating things to a spirit but as you mentioned, so many of the stories on Susan's do such wonders at lifting the heart. I don't know if you saw Cindy's review of her past year on Ms. Grace's thread. Her testimony about her incredible struggles and coming out saying that now she has learned how to live. Wow, listening to how so many on this site continue to seek out and take the high road will offset all of the down side junk from the mainstream news articles. - Anne
The goal of the media is to sell advertising space. Hence, the "news" they publish is heavily filtered to be frightening, sensational, emotional or titilating, not honest. I refuse to buy into their crap.
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That's not how I view it. I actually think the newspaper industry in USA does a pretty good job. Yes they have to sell ads. Nobody works for free.
It's the actual news itself that upsets me so.
Quote from: Jane Emily on December 23, 2016, 03:07:04 PM
That's not how I view it. I actually think the newspaper industry in USA does a pretty good job. Yes they have to sell ads. Nobody works for free.
It's the actual news itself that upsets me so.
There's news everywhere. What's published is filtered by editors to sell copy.
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Here's some news... I love all of you, and you're beautiful!
I'm fortunate that I am living in southern Thailand, so I watch international news channels on cable TV. Most of the newscasters were dismayed at the Trump win, if not downright horrified, some calling him a "monster."
Nevertheless, I found myself refusing to watch news whenever Trump came on.
@ AnonyMS, Thanks SO much for the link to a GOOD news story
It's too soon to judge trump. I think he wants to get America back into profit. Other than that, anything good for business will get the thumbs up. In business you just don't turn people away because of gender, gender expression, color, race, creed, sexual orientation etc. money is money.
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There's been some things on the news on tv recently about false news articles on facebook being prominent. People are believing them and being misinformed about what's really happening. They proved that many articles that were supposed to be American were actually written by shady people somewhere in South America. As many people in this forum have already said they have to sell news and promote their ideologies.Because this is election year there will be more propaganda. You have to remember that not all news is based on fact. A lot of the journalists personal opinions go into these articles. There's a lot of propaganda out there. Some articles I just can't read.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fake-news-guide-facebook_us_5831c6aae4b058ce7aaba169 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fake-news-guide-facebook_us_5831c6aae4b058ce7aaba169)
There are other articles about false news if you google it.
Yeah, the problems with Trump would start if he actually does the things he's promised, things he may only have said to galvanize his target audience.
If he really starts removing legal protections from LGBTQ people, making Muslims register, building walls, and deporting people there is going to be trouble.
On the other hand, Trump seems enamored with Putin and President Putin has banned GMOs and condemned the USA for filling their food supply with toxic food, pesticides, and requiring dangerous mercury-laced vaccinations, so maybe he'll actually influence Trump for some good.
http://www.organicandhealthy.org/2016/10/putin-human-evolution-under-threat-by.html#.WGnUW8R44TY.twitter
My concern when I posted this was not about bad news in general - though there is enough of that - but about bad news that is specifically trans-related. I suppose that there have always been haters and that the news media just report stories about trans-related incidents more often now because of increased awareness, both among the reporters and among the general population.
But I can't help wondering how much of the increase in anti-trans news stories is the result of an actual increase in hate as a backlash to the increased awareness. Certainly, legislators didn't always pass anti-trans legislation. That is a new and real thing.
I suppose my dysphoria over the news is a projection of my fears about coming out. When the time comes, people will react however they will react, and it is out of my control. But my confidence that they will likely react well enough is eroding.
Quote from: KathyLauren on January 02, 2017, 07:24:43 AMBut my confidence that they will likely react well enough is eroding.
Simply because there will no longer be a
pro LGBT bully in the White House? I fail to see what a yet untested Trump has to do with any of this outside of a promised return to some degree of '
prosperity & normalcy' ?
I find some comments on the NATGEO article webpages very balanced and fair: the apparent anomalies of less than 1 percent of the population does NOT make for a "Gender Revolution"! The 'media' is simply capitalizing again.
Quote from: nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/01/how-science-helps-us-understand-gender-identity/"A recent survey of a thousand millennials found that half of them think gender is a spectrum."
"The vast majority of people—more than 99 percent, it seems safe to say—put themselves at one end of the gender spectrum or the other."
This so-called revolution is caused by the advocacy of the GLBTQs through the Medía. Does anyone see the dichotomy in the two quotes above? How can over 99% of the world allow the rest to form some kind of "Gender Revolution"? I will answer: by sitting back and letting them do it: by letting them create the forum for discussion, the demand that the dialogue be limited to their "evidence", their world view creation.
Any and all increased awareness and discussion is
GREAT we need to count our blessings and move
ON!
Increased awareness and discussion is not a blessing when much of that increased discussion consists of calling us mentally ill with a political party coming into power that has openly stated time and again that it intends to deny us equal protection under the law by legally protecting those that would discriminate for religious reasons.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide, Autumn Leaves
Quote from: Kiera on January 02, 2017, 08:13:20 AM
pro LGBT bully
Huh? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Quote from: Kiera on January 02, 2017, 08:13:20 AM
the apparent anomalies of less than 1 percent of the population does NOT make for a "Gender Revolution"! The 'media' is simply capitalizing again.
I'm curious how old you are. When I was growing up men were arrested, thrown in jail, prosecuted, convicted and jailed. A permanent record of their crime on file with the police as being a sexual deviant. Why? For the crime of wearing a skirt in public. That was from the official Government. "Street justice" was violence against us and was quite common and considered "getting what we deserve." Forget about going to school as yourself. You would be asking for a beating and you would get it while the teachers looked on. Again, just getting what you deserved and being taught how not to be a sissy. Living in this day and age and being able to express my gender identity as freely as I can? That to me is revolutionary. It is a revolution that I live. Every day.
Quote from: Jane Emily on January 02, 2017, 06:55:47 PM
Huh?
LGBT Bully is a 'dog whistle' phrase courtesy of the Heritage Institute, the Daily Signal, and others in that particular line. Some of their authors have been using it to push back against things like the anti-bullying initiatives, and the supposed infringement of religious rights that granting legal protection to LGBT persons is seen as by some parties.
Persons promoting the equal treatment of LGBT folks are referred to as the
LGBT bully community in their publications.
Disclaimer: I am an activist. I don't think I should have to go back into hiding because others are uncomfortable with me. I believe that others should not have the right to throw me onto the street, refuse me food or access to a safe bathroom, abuse me, or kill me. I believe I have a right to exist and be treated as any other human being. To some people, this makes me a
LGBT bully.
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