[ SECRET POST #3538 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3538 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What hot-button debate do you take most personally?

[philstar22]

I'm not sure if personal is the right word? I mean, immigration is probably the most important social issue to me, as well as all the related social issues of the reasons why so many of them leave their original country. It isn't personal in the sense of it affects me because I'm not an immigrant, though it does affect clients I work with. But it does offend me in a way greater than most other issues because I am involved with the issue in my (hopefully soon) work and previous internships. I know how bad our laws our, I hear the testimonies of what immigrants go through (stuff that can make me cry at times, and I almost never cry), and then I hear the way it is talked about on tv. And it makes me mad.

Gender issues are obviously personal for me. But also the cross between gender and rase issues feels personal as a woman who thinks it should be about women getting to choose for themselves. The way western culture judges Muslim women for covering up while at the same time treating female bodies as objects for public consumption offends me greatly. Sometimes I like to show skin, sometimes I want to be completely covered up, and either way it is my choice. Criticize the forcing of women of course (though don't forget to criticize the expectations Western culture puts on women in how they look and dress, or you are extremely hypocritical). But don't judge an individual woman's choices when she isn't judging yours. And listen to the voices of the women in that culture. Let them speak for themselves. And don't pretend like we've got it all figured out and are totally great on the gender front.

Religion is weird for me because it is personal in so many different ways. I grew up in a super conservative, fundamentalist area. I grew out of that when I grew up. So that stuff offends me. But I'm still somewhat religious, and I also get offended by people who insult people who do have faith. There is such a thing as a liberal, progressive faith. Faith is personal. It is okay not to have any religion, but it is also okay to have some. I don't go around insulting atheists. I just hate it when all religious people are painted as being the same.

LGTBQ stuff also, definitely. especially because I'm bi and my parents are super homophobic. They don't know I"m bi, and ever time they say something offensive, it feels personal, but I can't tell them that.

Re: What hot-button debate do you take most personally?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

What you say about religion is the thing that came to mind on this. I consider myself moderately liberal, even though I have some very fundamental beliefs.

Even those beliefs, I find it irritating to discuss because I view them as a very personal thing that, in practical day-to-day living has little effect on people I interact with.