Brain and Heart-Breaky
Oct. 4th, 2008 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianOkay, I was going to have a nice calm day of Simming. And I will. Later. Now, though, news horror. Of course, it's all American, but given how much the rest of the Western world follows that (sorry) utterly bug-fucked country, it's legitimate to be worried about the asinine shit that some of their number comes up with.
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zoethe flags up a Time article about how women hate Sarah Palin because they're catty bitches. I'm not sure which I'm more offended by - the labelling of a catty, insipid moo led entirely by hormones and issues in my every decision ... or the fact that she ends up calling the idea of making people pay for their own rape test kits 'benign'. I do not understand why this woman thinks that other women do not follow any sort of logic in their decision-making process. I don't hate women because they're prettier than me, or more confident than me, and the only reason I hate women who fuck up in positions of power is because of how poor decisions, particularly in government office, affect those lower down the chain, and a man would be lowered in my esteem for that just as much. And I say that because ... I don't hate Palin. I don't know Palin to hate her. To really hate someone, I have to know who they are, and I won't pretend that I do just from sound bytes and so forth. I do not think that she is skilled enough in politics to be vice-president, and I disagree with most of her policies, and I think that her candidacy was the biggest mistake the Republicans could have made, but I do not hate her. Luscombe needs to grow the hell up, or else someone's going to take her more seriously than is warranted and we're going to end up with the New Gilead thing in more ways than one.
And then there's the new law allowing children up to the age of 19 to be abandoned at hospitals without prosecution. This apparently started in Texas in 1999, and since it was passed in Nebraska this July, fourteen children have been abandoned at hospitals, most in their teens. And the one woman who made the mistake of bringing her fourteen-year-old to a police department, thinking that was covered under this new law, said that she "did not want to care for him anymore". And then...
On September 13 a woman took her 11-year-old grandson to a hospital in Omaha complaining he was violent and destructive and saying he would be better off in a group home. The boy is now in foster care. The same day a boy aged 15 was abandoned in Lincoln by his aunt, who said he was disobedient and a possible gang member. "I didn't abandon him," she told the Omaha World Herald. "I wanted help for him so when he hits 18 he's not a menace to society."
There are few to no words for this. You're going to end up with little kids turning up at hospitals, turning up at hospitals and handing notes to A&E doctors saying, "Mummy said to give you this". And then an A&E doctor will read this ... this "Take my child and put it somewhere because I can't cope" note, and this doctor's going to have to tell this child something and ... gods, the kid won't be able to cope, the doctors won't be able to cope, and then you're going to end up with the group homes and foster care system overcrowded, overpressured, underfunded... It's a recipe for broken people in a broken country and ... I mean, I did not always feel like a wanted child and look how I ended up a few years back! What's it going to do to kids and teens when they're abandoned at hospitals because their parents obviously don't love them enough? This in a state basically run by the right-wing 'family first' types?
My heart and my head are both slightly broken over these things. It actually hurts. Where is the love and common sense? Just ... why do these things happen? When people don't want to allow abortions because they could be used as a substitute for birth control but people are allowed to abandon their grown, cognisant children at hospitals just to get said children off their hands, when grown women are accused by other grown women of voting with their high school bitch-grudge hats on ... what do you do?
zoethe flags up a Time article about how women hate Sarah Palin because they're catty bitches. I'm not sure which I'm more offended by - the labelling of a catty, insipid moo led entirely by hormones and issues in my every decision ... or the fact that she ends up calling the idea of making people pay for their own rape test kits 'benign'. I do not understand why this woman thinks that other women do not follow any sort of logic in their decision-making process. I don't hate women because they're prettier than me, or more confident than me, and the only reason I hate women who fuck up in positions of power is because of how poor decisions, particularly in government office, affect those lower down the chain, and a man would be lowered in my esteem for that just as much. And I say that because ... I don't hate Palin. I don't know Palin to hate her. To really hate someone, I have to know who they are, and I won't pretend that I do just from sound bytes and so forth. I do not think that she is skilled enough in politics to be vice-president, and I disagree with most of her policies, and I think that her candidacy was the biggest mistake the Republicans could have made, but I do not hate her. Luscombe needs to grow the hell up, or else someone's going to take her more seriously than is warranted and we're going to end up with the New Gilead thing in more ways than one.And then there's the new law allowing children up to the age of 19 to be abandoned at hospitals without prosecution. This apparently started in Texas in 1999, and since it was passed in Nebraska this July, fourteen children have been abandoned at hospitals, most in their teens. And the one woman who made the mistake of bringing her fourteen-year-old to a police department, thinking that was covered under this new law, said that she "did not want to care for him anymore". And then...
On September 13 a woman took her 11-year-old grandson to a hospital in Omaha complaining he was violent and destructive and saying he would be better off in a group home. The boy is now in foster care. The same day a boy aged 15 was abandoned in Lincoln by his aunt, who said he was disobedient and a possible gang member. "I didn't abandon him," she told the Omaha World Herald. "I wanted help for him so when he hits 18 he's not a menace to society."
There are few to no words for this. You're going to end up with little kids turning up at hospitals, turning up at hospitals and handing notes to A&E doctors saying, "Mummy said to give you this". And then an A&E doctor will read this ... this "Take my child and put it somewhere because I can't cope" note, and this doctor's going to have to tell this child something and ... gods, the kid won't be able to cope, the doctors won't be able to cope, and then you're going to end up with the group homes and foster care system overcrowded, overpressured, underfunded... It's a recipe for broken people in a broken country and ... I mean, I did not always feel like a wanted child and look how I ended up a few years back! What's it going to do to kids and teens when they're abandoned at hospitals because their parents obviously don't love them enough? This in a state basically run by the right-wing 'family first' types?
My heart and my head are both slightly broken over these things. It actually hurts. Where is the love and common sense? Just ... why do these things happen? When people don't want to allow abortions because they could be used as a substitute for birth control but people are allowed to abandon their grown, cognisant children at hospitals just to get said children off their hands, when grown women are accused by other grown women of voting with their high school bitch-grudge hats on ... what do you do?