So, What Did I Miss...

Hi!

So, I've been dipping back into the news, trying to get caught up with a few things... seeing what I've missed. 

I have some questions...

So, our neighbours to the West AKA, Alberta, are starting their own book banning club now? 

I know we have librarians and teachers in our schools that do a fabulous job introducing our kids to books, both new and classic, without scarring them in any way. I find it hard to believe that the books they were finding, like "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, were in the little kid section, and doubt even more that the sketchy ones they found were in the system at all. If they are, then that's a conversation to be had with the librarian, not a reason to start gatekeeping books. 

Books are such a fantastic way for little ones to learn about the world they are growing up in. They learn about different cultures, how different homes look, the different kinds of jobs that exist outside their family bubble. They get to read stories about overcoming all kinds of adversity, physical, emotional, cultural, historical. Through these stories they learn acceptance, empathy and resilience. 

Reading inclusive stories can't make a kid part of the LBGTQ+ community any more than reading true crime novels makes you a detective, or reading westerns makes you a cowboy, or Shakespeare makes you King Lear. They are simply stories to introduce people, young and old, to ideas that exist outside of their own lives. 

Next question...

I can't help but wonder why survivors of the Rich Boy Pedo Club, are made to feel like they have to hold a freakin' press conference because the king of the club wants to pretend that the horror they went through was a hoax? 

These warriors are expected to just bow their heads and accept this grotesque disrespect? These are women who have grown into the protectors they didn't have as young girls. You don't survive what they have without fierce resolve, and astronomical amounts of courage. This isn't going away.

One last question...

What the hell is going on with the health of the guy occupying the Whitehouse these days?

He doesn't look well.... at all. 

He doesn't sound well... at all.

No, seriously, it's getting weird. 

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