Thank you Ten Bears. This sums up my feelings very well. I just wished that others understood it. Hugs. Scottie
Category: Abuse
Queer Gen Z kids are still facing widespread bullying and harassment in schools
Notice the lack of positive response by school staff and teachers. This is what red states want also. They do not want teachers to defend or stick up for students. Force all kids to be straight cis little John and Jane, who harass and harm the LGBTQ+ kids forcing them to hide who they are. Horrible. But hey, they call themselves good Christians. Hugs. Scottie
While Gen Z contains the highest percentage of out-LGBTQ+ people, life is far from a progressive paradise for this age group. Nearly half of LGBTQ+ Gen Z students in the UK are still experiencing queerphobic bullying in schools, some of which comes from teachers and administrators, a new survey reports.
The survey comes from Theirworld, an international children’s education charity, and global research firm YouGov, which polled 545 LGBTQ+ youth ages 16 to 24 in the UK. 47% of respondents said they have experienced bullying from their peers over their sexual orientation, 25% for their gender identity.
This bullying included verbal abuse (73%), harassment (53%), online abuse (31%), threats of violence (24%), purposeful misgendering (19%), physical abuse (16%) and sexual abuse (15%).
“When I came out as a lesbian in 2013, I had a brick thrown at my face and screamed at that I was a fagg*t,” one survey respondent said. “I was ostracized by my female peers and refused to get changed for PE with them as they would all hide. I am not publicly out as nonbinary.”
“I was added to a group chat of students where I was outed to the full year group and subsequently bullied, called slurs and names daily,” recalled another respondent. “Most teachers ignored the bullying especially if it was in their classroom. They would mock my gender and discuss my identity with other students in a negative way.”
Such negative responses from school staff represented a sobering trend in the data. Of those students who experienced anti-LGBTQ+ bullying, nearly half never reported it at all. 18% reported it once and 30% reported it multiple times. Of those who reported their experiences, 72% said that school staff responded badly.
In the end, more than 1 in 4 LGBTQ+ respondents said they do not view schools as safe for them. “All young people deserve a safe place to learn, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation,” said Theirworld president Justin van Fleet. “However, LGBTQ+ youth face higher rates of bullying and discrimination than their peers in schools around the world.”
In response to the growing rate of bullying among LGBTQ+ youth, Theirworld has launched a global taskforce to provide increased advocacy. Van Fleet explained, “The task force will focus on issues of safe campaigning in challenging contexts and allow LGBTQ+ youth leaders and their allies to have a powerful platform and network to advocate for more inclusive education policies in communities around the world.”
A memory that has bothered me, been resurfacing repeatedly for weeks. Trigger warning !!!
Trigger warning what follows is about my abuse as a young, little boy. It is a painful memory that I have that may hurt others reading it.
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When I was little like 4 to 6 / 7 yrs old one of the things done to me by both the hell spawn siblings to cause me pain and make me compliant and by my adult AF (adoptive father) to make me more compliant was … using rubbing alcohol on my butt and little boy parts. Ok I have danced around it, I guess I have to explain.
I would be grabbed by the hell spawn when no one was around. It took at least two or three to do this. They would strip me of my clothing, knowing what was coming I tried to resist which really they liked because it showed how much more powerful they were than me. They would force me face down, with one / more holding my upper body down, and another pinning my legs down.
Trigger warning, last chance to bail on this, I sure wish I could, but this has been hitting me day and night so I have to get it out.
Once they had me pinned down, they would pry my clenched butt cheeks open. I would struggle to hold them closed with everything I had … but I always lost. Once they had my butt cheeks spread open, they would pour rubbing alcohol down my butt crack, letting it flow over my stretched butthole and over my tinny scrotum / little penis. I would cry, thrash, beg, … and it burned so bad. Often the hell spawn siblings would stop there unless one of them wanted to punish me more or one of the males wanted to prove a point. The adoptive father would do this sometimes if I did not willingly give him what he wanted. They / he would put his finger in rubbing alcohol and then rub it on my anus, my butt hole, then resoak their finger and jam it into me. I soon learned that when it was threatened to be a good and submit with no fight, to be the submissive fuck … doll, fleshlight, what ever, be the warm body they needed to come in, to humiliate. The memories hurt, but not as much as the pain of having rubbing alcohol poured over my anus, little balls and on my tiny penis. Or forced roughly into my sore asshole. I learned to not fight, to give in quickly and often. It was bad enough to have a penis, a dick thrust into me at that age with no lube and little prep, but to have such a painful substance put on it first … it was horrible.
This is the memory that has been disturbing my sleep and upsetting me during the day. Thank you for letting me express it, to try to get it out of my system. Hugs. Scottie
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The power of the public needs to wake up and fight back. Yes the wealthy and businesses have made it ever harder to find any time to even read news much less take action. But unless we do the past will be our future. The wealthy bought the republican party and even some in the democratic party to support the oligarchy and return to the gilded age of robber barons and a government too small and powerless to stop them. Back then the US was basically run by wealthy corporations and business interests. The people, the public not only did not have a real voice, they simply did not matter. They were only livestock to make the companies more money and when they couldn’t do that anymore, they suffered and died. A life span for the worker was 47, the life span for the wealthy was into the late 70s. Is that what we want for the US? Please people rise up, vote for Biden, the wealthy are desperate and funding all the challenges to him. RFK, Jill Stein, Cornell West none of them can win. Period. The math doesn’t work, the system doesn’t allow it. There are only two candidates that can get the needed 270 electoral votes to win, to be president. These others are simply spoilers paid to tank Biden and help tRump. Don’t let them do it. Hugs. Scottie
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VIRAL VIDEO: Moms For Liberty Leader Has Screaming Meltdown Over Group Of Drag Queens In Hawaii Hotel
Talk of self entitled importance. By my dogs that love gravy you have to watch the videos. This woman is so over the top that if she was doing this to any other group it would have been thought an SNL skit. If she had been acting like this to black people, Hindus, or Muslims, no one would have accepted it. Sh was screaming in peoples faces and demanding their names. She is a total stranger acting as if she has some type of authority over other paying guests. If she had done that to me she sure wouldn’t have liked my reaction. Scottie wouldn’t have been so nice as the drag queens. The drag queens were guests of the hotel filming there and they got treated horribly by this woman. Yet she claims to be the victim. She went after them, she got in their faces not once but several times filming them, insulting them, accusing them of wanting to chop her son’s penis off. The hotel staff did try to stop her but acted like they were afraid of her or to get too forceful with her and she just went around them or ignored them. Then she continued her lecture and screed to the police when they were escorting her off the hotel grounds. She continued her triad and even accused one of the police officers of being a trans woman, she called the woman a man. She was an attention seeker and did not care who she hurt to get her fix of attention. And her X posts are full of lies and myths about trans people, including something she claimed at the hotel. She said that after sexual reassignment and I think she meant transitioning also, that suicides go way up. In fact studies have proven they decrease greatly after transitioning or having gender affirming medical care. But again facts mean nothing to these haters. Hugs. Scottie
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The Sacramento Bee reports:
UC Davis published a statement Tuesday about “offensive comments” made by employee Beth Bourne while she was on a family vacation in Hawaii.
Bourne, the local chapter president for parents rights group Moms for Liberty, posted a video of herself confronting a group of drag queens who were filming a video at the hotel Bourne was staying in, the Alohilani Resort in Waikiki, on Sunday.
“We reject all manifestations of discrimination, including those based on gender and gender expression,” the university’s statement said. The video shows Bourne verbally accosting the people dressed in drag, including drag queen Marina Del Rey.
Newsweek reports:
In the video, Bourne took aim at the drag queens as she accused the hotel of failing to provide a safe environment for her son.
“I’m sorry, but this is—I paid to be a customer at a hotel where I thought you believed that women were real. That because you put on makeup, because you’re wearing high heels, because you have a Barbie outfit on, that you don’t think this is degrading? This is misogyny,” Bourne said addressing the drag queens.
She added, addressing a hotel representative: “If you give me back my money right now, I will leave the hotel, but I’m not going to have my children come down from the 30th floor and see what’s happening here.” According to Bourne’s X bio, she claims without evidence that “1/22 kids is trans” at UC Davis, adding that her views are “mine, not my employer.”
Yahoo News reports:
“This type of behavior is unacceptable,” Hawaii Democratic Governor Josh Green said in a statement Monday. “It is not aloha and we will not tolerate it from anyone.”
As the videos continued to garner views, social media users began tagging UC Davis, Bourne’s employer, demanding she be fired. Bourne works at the university’s Institute for Transportation Studies.
“I’m used to my colleagues thinking I’m a terrible person,” Bourne told The Bee in an April story about Bourne and her estranged trans child. The university said that Bourne’s comments “are protected by the First Amendment,” but that the school condemns them nonetheless.
Videos of the incident together have nearly ten million views at this writing. I encourage you to watch both of activist Tizzy Ent’s clips in full.
Four days of torture and a 24 hour sabbatical
This is the second attempt to write this as I was in classic and tried to post a link to a source and well WordPress did its new magic when working with classic and wiped out an hours worth of work. So I will try again. My mind is still a bit foggy so the new post won’t be as well or have as much in it as the first. ***After I wrote the entire post I see the above was not so correct, the post is long***
I am on the maximum dosage of Baclofen and my back / leg spasms are still increasing and getting worse. This causes an increase of pain. My pain doctor who gives me my spine shots felt I needed more relief and I was not getting as much as I should be, so he told me to try a different drug that may or may not help me. He did not discuss how to stop the Baclofen but simply said try this one it might give you more relief or not. I now think I misunderstood him and he meant to use it as a back-up to the Baclofen. He is incredibly smart and well respected in his profession so the idea he would want me to do what I did doesn’t make sense.
Baclofen is a horribly unforgiving medication. It is hard to get used to using, and it can be deadly if not managed correctly. Needless to say I did not manage stopping the medication correctly at all. Here are some things that can happen and sadly I can not post the link but will have to do it below. (I hate to do it and it will mean less posting but I may have to start posting by writing the post in Word then pasting it in to WordPress somehow. What drew me to WordPress and then back to WordPress was the ease in just opening Classic and writing a post. All my extensions work and it was fun. Not so much now.)
Baclofen Withdrawal Symptoms
Baclofen withdrawal symptoms can be similar to those of benzodiazepine and alcohol withdrawal. Withdrawal from all of these substances can be severe and, in some cases, deadly. People are most likely to go through baclofen withdrawal if they have been using the drug for more than a few months. Baclofen withdrawal can occur whether someone uses a low or high dose. If someone suddenly stops using the drug, withdrawal symptoms are more likely to be severe. Baclofen withdrawal symptoms can include:
- Visual and auditory hallucinations
- Tactile hallucinations
- Confusion
- Delusions
- Disorientation
- Delirium
- Insomnia
- Dizziness
- Nausea
- Memory problems
- Anxiety
- Changes in perception
- Hyperthermia
- Depersonalization
- Psychosis
- Mania
- Mood disturbances
- Changes in behavior
- Tachycardia
- Seizures
- Tremors
- Fever
- Extreme rebound muscle rigidity and spasticity
Some of the most severe symptoms of baclofen withdrawal, such as seizures, hallucinations and organ failure, can be avoided if someone participates in a professional baclofen detox.
I stopped taking it one morning. Boy my body quickly let me know it was not happy about it. My pain levels went off the scale, and I was in agony. I struggled with the last one on the list also some of the others. Plus I did not sleep. I would lay there and toss / turn but if I slept it was in small time periods of 15 minutes or so and at most I got a total of 1 or 2 hours a day. To put it mildly, I was having nausea, struggling with the personality changes all this was causing, confusion, insomnia, tremors, and fever as the worst of the effects. By the end of the fourth day Ron was seriously concerned, he had looked up the symptoms and seen my rapid deterioration. He was begging me to go back to the baclofen or at least call the doctor to tell them. I thought it over. What I wanted and needed was not worth what I was doing through. So I took my first baclofen the end of the fourth day and went to bed.
The next day which was yesterday I woke up late but felt so much better. I was still having some symptoms but my main problem was the lack of ability to focus and confusion. I just felt tired out. At the appropriate time I took my second set of medication and … The world stopped. Well the world did not but I did. I mentioned to Ron I felt really tired and was going to go lay down. Well I lay down, and 6 hours later Ron woke me to ask if I would like to eat and maybe I should take off my headphones which I was still wearing. Which is weird as I don’t like wearing headphones which is why I need my own room for my computers, so I can listen to my stuff without the need for headphones or earbuds.
I am back. Sorry got so tired I went to lay down for an hour plus.
So after I got up yesterday, removed my headphones, we had supper. I was not really hungry but Ron had the desire to have crispy chicken strips and french fries cooked in the big deep frier. I enjoy them, but we both marveled I do not eat like I used to. I had maybe four strips and a small serving of french fries. The good news on that front is I had been stuck on a weight plateau to 184, and recently I have dropped below that into the 170s running right now between 175 and 177 pounds. After eating I offered to pick it up, Ron said he would do it, but I wanted to help so we split the work. Then I went back to bed.
I slept, then I slept some more. When Ron came to bed at 10 pm, I took my next set of medications and my nighttime insulin. Then after mumbling to Ron that I wouldn’t be able to sleep, I went right to sleep. I slept until 3 am when Tupac’s small stomach alarm went off. Every morning at that time he cries and cries until one of us gets up and feeds him half a can of wet food. He has a bowl of dry food but we got him hooked on wet food and he loves it. But if we give him as much as he wants, he will get sick and vomit it, so we give him half a can or so at a time now. Normally I do it because Ron is sleeping. This morning I did not respond and Ron asked If I wanted him to do it, his tone hopeful I would offer to get up. I did not. I did not even hear him and Tupac come back to bed. I slept until 6:15 or so when Tupac’s stomach alarm went off again. He knows now since his long time feral playtime outside friend … well the night before she was seen no more we again had a young coyote scouting around the house. We had tried so hard for two years to get her to at least come into the Florida room for the night, but she just won’t. She has disappeared. So Tupac has new rules. He is allowed outside during the day but once night fall and darkness has come he is inside now. He sometimes argues about it but, until he learns to open the doors he lives by it. In truth he doesn’t make much fuss, and even at 3 am he doesn’t ask to go out anymore, but goes right back to bed.
One last note. Over the 24 hours or so I slept Ron kept checking me. He said this morning that the only thing that bothered him was that during the times he checked on me and during the night I was very vocal. I cried, wept, moaned, groaned, and made other sounds. He said I did not seem to struggle or move around, and I was not begging like when it is really bad so he let me sleep. I asked him if I talked anything clearly that could be understood more than just sounds. He said no he was watching, I did not beg or plead for it to stop, or beg not to be hurt so he did not know if to wake me. I said he did the correct thing as I want him to know I love he cares and understands now what I lived through and still experience in dreams. He asked if I wanted to talk about the dreams, and I said no, I had them, I experienced the abuse in more mild than normal and I did not want to relive it or have him live it so no I did not want to tell him the dreams. He is so wonderful he accepted that, gave me long wonderful hugs and kisses.
So that has been the last five days. That what I went through. It is going to take days to get back on track if ever. I will not be posting the meme post today or this week, I did not work on it all week so there is not really anything to post. Love everyone who comes to my little spot on the interwebs who want to hear my opinion. Hugs to those who wish them, my heart felt best wishes to all others. Scottie
The link for the Baclofen information is https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/baclofen-addiction/withdrawal-detox/ but a simple search will show how unforgiving the medication is and how deadly it can be to try to come off it the wrong way.
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