I'm very sorry to hear that you were beaten and doubly sorry to hear that the police didn't take you seriously. Where was this?
The news from the Bush Administration is so bad that some days I have to close my eyes and not look, or I might kill myself. Do you suppose driving someone to suicide constitutes assault on their part?
On the sidewalk in front of my house, a few doors down, last year. The police didn't respond to my first or second call, nor the call from the ambulance driver, and took forever to show up at the hospital. Then I overheard the officer who had taken my statement, on the phone to his precinct, saying, "Yeah, he wants to report it as a hate crime because he's transgendered." (No, I wanted to report it as a hate crime because it started out with comments about how I was dressed and then escalated; if they hadn't said things that suggested they were motivated by my gender presentation, I wouldn't have called it a hate crime. You think maybe some of the police understand that they're required to keep hate crime statistics but don't actually understand what the phrase means?)
The guys who beat me didn't seem to be from around here; I got the impression they were on their way back to the suburbs from a club here in the city.
"Outrage fatigue" is a phrase I hear a lot (or that I hear the description of, even when I don't hear those words) in connection with the Bush Administration.
I agree that a lot of the news is despair-inducing (even when it raises outrage at the sae time). I keep looking for glimmers of hope that they can be stopped, and that at least some of their damage can eventually be undone. When the hope is gone, more-and-different bad things happen.
I don't like being afraid of my own government. I can take disagreeing vehemently with my own government, but being afraid of it is too many kinds of wrongness at once.
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The news from the Bush Administration is so bad that some days I have to close my eyes and not look, or I might kill myself. Do you suppose driving someone to suicide constitutes assault on their part?
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The guys who beat me didn't seem to be from around here; I got the impression they were on their way back to the suburbs from a club here in the city.
"Outrage fatigue" is a phrase I hear a lot (or that I hear the description of, even when I don't hear those words) in connection with the Bush Administration.
I agree that a lot of the news is despair-inducing (even when it raises outrage at the sae time). I keep looking for glimmers of hope that they can be stopped, and that at least some of their damage can eventually be undone. When the hope is gone, more-and-different bad things happen.
I don't like being afraid of my own government. I can take disagreeing vehemently with my own government, but being afraid of it is too many kinds of wrongness at once.
I'm probably not helping ...