EDIT: Sexual Objectification Is Not Your Sexuality

I have decided to redact this post as I think I really want to keep this blog and my Light Living Facebook page as safe space where people can come and feel a bit of peace during their days.

If you are unaware of the Light Living Facebook community and would like to join, you can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/lightlivingnow

You can also follow my Twitter at: https://twitter.com/LightLivingNow

My activism work generally doesn't lend itself to feeling peaceful, so I will keep my activist posts elsewhere so my readers have more of a choice about when they feel like reading about heavy and controversial topics. I already know most of you are activists in some form or another, and I do hope you will take the time to go and look at that page as well and spread the articles. When you're up to it, of course.

For this blog though, I think it best serves as a spot for more personal and positive light work. I'll post links here and on FB and Twitter when I put something new up over there, but won't copy/paste it.

Here is the link for my activist blog on Daily KOS: http://www.dailykos.com/blog/LoriRose/

Here is the direct link to the article:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/24/1272343/-Sexual-Objectification-Is-Not-Your-Sexuality

Namaste! 

The Sword Without A Hilt

Sexism is a double edged sword that has no hilt. You simply cannot pick it up and swing it anyone without cutting yourself.

You cannot call a women "sluts" without automatically calling men "tasteless."

You cannot call men "pussies" without automatically calling women "dicks."

You can't call a man "girly" or a woman "butch" without automatically implying that you yourself are inferior because of your gender.

In other words, you can't help but go around insulting yourself every time you spew sexist diatribe. It's like walking around with a sign on your back that says "World's Biggest Joke," and you haven't noticed. It's funny to those of us who see it, and even funnier to say "Hey, you have a sign on your back!" and watch you get all defensive and say, "No, I don't!"

If we all took the time today to tell our children this, sexism would probably be mostly gone by the time today's kindergartners became college students.