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Activism ReportSent my alma mater an email
After I got tired of deleting their pleas for money, I sent this (no idea if it will have an impact, but it felt good to finally complain):
Dear university development,
Whenever I receive an email requesting donations, I scroll to the bottom. If I see a pronoun designation, I immediately delete the email. Why? The belief in a gendered soul that requires everyone to go around stating pronouns is just that, a belief. A state-funded university should not be in the business of promoting any belief system. I would also delete any emails pronouncing that “Jesus saves” or “Allah is great.” You should be in the business of providing educational resources to students, not endorsing fringe beliefs that celebrate narcissism and disproportionately harm women, children, and vulnerable populations. You have only to look at your own house—[omitting here the specific incident but complained about] A man...for whom special exceptions were made not because he has some kind of magical lady soul, but because male privilege is the backbone of this quasi-religion. Until academia drags itself out of the quagmire of post-modern muck it's been wallowing in, you won't be getting a cent from me.
Please remove me from all outreach email lists.
Pete Buttigieg and his husband adopted their children, they did not use a surrogate.
Its still super weird that they LARPed in the hospital bed after the mother gave birth
That's because both of their children were in the NICU, they were not there for the birth. They were only chosen by the birth mother after she had given birth.
I thought it was weird, but the reason they do that is for the skin to skin contact.
You need a camera for that? Does the skin to skin contact not work unless the photos are uploaded to social media?
Well I mean doesn't everyone show pictures of the baby pretty immediately in the past 15 years?? Smartphones and social media has facilitated this.
You're intentionally conflating two situations that are very different.
Situation A: A new mother posts a photo on social media of her first skin-to-skin contact with her infant, lying exhausted in the bed in which she just gave birth.
Situation B: A rich politician orders a baby from a biological mother, then months later shows up to the hospital and has his photo taken with his nonprocreative male partner lying in a hospital bed for no reason with their newly-acquired baby. Due to bed shortages and hospital regulations the exhausted mother who just gave birth may have been asked to stand next to the bed out of frame while holding a pile of sweaty sheets so she doesn't fuck up the photo.
Why are they in the fucking bed? Can you or I just wander down to our local hospital and climb into a bed for no fucking reason and take pictures? Did these two mess up a perfectly clean bed and require a hospital worker to change and resanitize the bed so they could have a photo op? Or did they kick the sweaty, exhausted (but now worthless, fuck off cunt you're ruining the photo) mother out of her own bed for the photo?
Which happened?
Nice fiction you're writing.
Buttigieg and his husband didn't "order a baby" and show up months later. This was not surrogacy and neither Buttigieg or his husband are the biological father of either baby. A woman gave birth, decided to place her children for adoption, and picked Buttigieg and his husband after the babies were born. They were not at the birth and did not shove the exhausted birth mother out of her own bed. Adoptive parents are usually given a room at the hospital to meet the infants they're adopting, they didnt just wander into the hospital for a photo op. They probably took photos on the bed because it is wide enough for them to sit side by side unlike most chairs in hospital rooms.
Do you think adoptive parents shouldn't take pictures in the hospital with the babies they're adopting? Or just the gay couples?
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