This is not the serious stuff I normally post. But in a way it is. It is a wonderful story of a high school boy not sure of himself, a father that talks only about girlfriends to the boy, and about overcoming fears of not being accepted or fitting in. It is only 17 minutes long, wonderfully subtitled. Just click the watch on YouTube. Hugs. Scottie
Category: Video / YouTube
Trans People can use the OTHER Washroom
This video quotes a Harvard study that show 36% percent of trans kids are sexually assaulted when forced to use the sex on their birth certificate rather than the bathroom they gender identify with. Then the video talks about how the anti-trans bathroom laws physically harm trans kids while not help cis kids to stay safe at all. It is not cis kids in bathrooms being attacked, but trans kids. Hugs. Scottie
Texas Commies ‘Moms For Democracy’ Gonna Fuck Your Shit Up With ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ Ad
https://www.wonkette.com/p/texas-commies-moms-for-democracy
My thanks to Ten Bears for the link. Ten Bears, you are seriously cutting into my free blog reading time. 😀😁😎 Hugs. Scottie
They were doing it in Texas.
Check out this impressive new ad — or you don’t have to — from Mothers for Democracy, a 501(c)(4) political group that got its start in Texas with grassroots protests against Gov. Greg Abbott’s rightwing extremism (just as a reminder that Texas progressives are still as pissed off and active as iconic Texas Dems like Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, or Barbara Jordan). They’re very definitely positioning themselves as the polar opposite of that other bunch of moms who say they’re for liberty but want to ban books — and certain people too.
The ad, “Thoughts and Prayers,” debuted on social media yesterday to mark the 11th anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. It’s a fresh indictment of the cliché the Right has offered instead of action following mass shootings, from Newtown to Uvalde and since.
The ad begins with a little girl at the edge of a backyard swimming pool reaching for a pink flamingo floaty, priming you to think this is going to be another safety PSA. Which it is, just not about pools, because as the onscreen text explains,
The number one killer of children in the USA … [girl yelps and tumbles into pool]
is not drowning
or car wrecks
or cancer
The girl’s distraught mom arrives on the scene, but instead of jumping in to rescue her daughter, kneels at the edge of the pool and prays, “Please, please, God, save her! Do something! Save her!” [camera cuts to a close-up of the mom’s praying hands, the blurry shape of the girl at the bottom of the pool] “Please save her, please!”
Then neighbors show up to say their “thoughts and prayers” are with her, including one couple relaxing in the pool’s attached hot tub, in swimsuits and enjoying beverages (in pool-safe, nonbreakable containers, for safety). “Thoughts,” she says, finishing a drink. “Prayers,” he adds, nodding at Mom.
Onscreen, we’re shown the statistic that many of us have known for far too long:
The #1 killer of children in the US is
GUN VIOLENCE
The ad closes with an overhead shot of the backyard, the scene centered on the blurred image of the little mannequin in a red dress at the bottom of the pool, over which the final text unscrolls:
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
ARE MEANINGLESS
WHEN YOU CAN ACT
The scene blacks out and transitions to a white screen and the words “Act Now. Demand Gun Reform,” with a link to Mothers For Democracy’s gun reform page, which calls out “the hypocrisy of people who say ‘thoughts and prayers’ while going on with their lives as if nothing has happened.”
For the ad, Mothers for Democracy partnered with gun safety groups Newtown Action Alliance, Lives Robbed (founded by parents of victims and survivors of the mass shooting at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School), and Change the Ref, the group founded by the parents of Joaquin Oliver, who was murdered in the massacre in Parkland, Florida. That group also brought us that devastating ad where they invited prominent gun advocates to address an empty “graduation” ceremony for the “lost class” — all the kids killed by guns, who’ll never see their own commencement ceremonies.
The ad is the first of what Moms for Democracy hopes will be six for the 2024 campaign season, on “crucial issues that directly impact families” that also include “quality public schools, climate action, healthcare access, LGBTQ+ rights, and voting protections.” Yep, they have an ActBlue link if you want to help; I gave a few of my Ameros just to find out what with they come up with for climate. On Xitter, the group noted that it didn’t use an ad agency, but rather that it (and we assume the partners?) developed the ad with an in-house team, which is pretty cool, too.
As the circle of Americans directly affected by gun violence expands, year by year, there are more and more people who desperately want the madness to end. They include some impressively talented communicators, like Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Florida), who started campaigning for gun control when he was 15 and horrified by Sandy Hook — and is a survivor himself, having witnessed a 2016 shooting in Orlando. Together, we can all make sure we’re heard.
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My Shadow is Pink by Scott Stuart – Official Read Along
Earlier I posted the version that had no words. I wished I had known this version was out there. It is about the same except this one has the words in the book, which are also on the screen for you to read along. Plus the CC is really good. Again this is based on real life. His young boy knew in his heart who he was and was not. In real life as in the book, the dad helped his son by accepting who he is, not trying to make him what he is not. I don’t know if the boy is trans, but I have seen him dressed in princess outfits with more boyish style hair and no real makeup. So he maybe gender fluid or nonbinary. It doesn’t matter, accepting young people even children for who they are and giving them the chance to grow and be, to learn for themselves who they are is what is important. Oh, I should mention this inoffensive book about a dad’s love helping him accept his son is one of the most banned books and a constant target of the fundamentalist Christians and maga right wing crowd. Mom’s for liberty and Mom’s of TikTok hate this book and claim it is porn and teaches sexualization of little kids. Hugs. Scottie
Watch more at amebatv.com!
Kian Lilien as: Boy Ryan Andes as: Dad Music: Celebration by Stephen Keech (license: YHDSPSYOVPCDAOSJ)
“Out” Full SparkShort | Celebrate Pride Month | Pixar
Euphoric | An Animated Short Film
My Shadow is Pink | Animated Short Film by Scott Stuart
There are no spoken words, just a lot of emotions expressed. A grand short animated movie. Be the change you want to see, be the person standing up for equality and the right to be who you are. Hugs. Scottie
Created by Scott Stuart.
The picture book “My Shadow is Pink” was released by Larrikin House in 2020 and has gone on to become a best-seller globally. “My Shadow is Purple” comes out May 2022.
Charlie Brown Reunion …
Thank you Ten Bears for the grand video. It does show a realistic side to a group growing up. Far more than the weird “Friends” show did. I wonder how that group would have faired in their later years. Hugs. Scottie
This is the LGBTQ+ Holiday message everyone needs to see! 🏳️⚧️
GOP House Candidate Destroys Satanic Temple Display
The guy is proud of himself. After all, only his religion should be acknowledged in the US. After all, religious freedom is only for Christians. If the country is to be a democracy for everyone, then Christians must understand that they don’t get to rule over others. They don’t have the right to make rules that allow only their way of life and force others to live as they do. What do you think these same assholes would do if a Muslim or a person from another faith destroyed one of their Christian displays? Plus remember that this guy destroyed private property. That is a crime. Hugs. Scottie
Des Moines’ CBS affiliate reports:
The Satanic Temple of Iowa says a statue in its Iowa capitol display was destroyed “beyond repair.” The display made headlines this week when an Eastern Iowa state lawmaker called for the governor to remove it, calling the display “blasphemous.”
Governor Kim Reynolds issued a statement saying, “In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech.”
The Satanic Temple said in a Facebook post, “We are proud to continue our holiday display for the next few days that we have been allotted. We ask that for safety, visitors travel together and use the 7 Tenets as a reminder for empathy, in the knowledge that justice is being pursued the correct way, through legal means.”
The right wing Republic Sentinel reports:
Michael Cassidy, a Christian and former military officer, tore down and beheaded a Satanist altar erected in the Iowa Capitol as the display provoked nationwide controversy, The Sentinel has exclusively learned. Cassidy said in comments exclusively provided to The Sentinel that he destroyed the shrine on Thursday in order to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.”
Cassidy turned himself into police officers present in the Iowa Capitol, who confirmed that the Satanic Temple of Iowa desires to press charges. The Sentinel obtained a complaint and affidavit which said Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. “I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” Cassidy continued. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”
Cassidy ran for the US House in Mississippi last year, finishing 35 points behind incumbent GOP Rep. Michael Guest in the primary. Earlier this year he lost a bid for the Mississippi House.
Yes. So proud of the Episcopal Church for this move. Sure it split the world-wide Episcopal Church, but boy will they look good in the future.
Unfortunately, the right thing to do is not always the popular thing. I respect them very much for doing the right thing, anyway. They did it with women in the church, too. Surprise! The world did not come to an end.
Unless he was in Iowa for other reasons, this cultist drove 13 hours from Mississippi to Des Moines to earn social media cred from Christian nationalists.
He’s probably already raising money.
Social media cred? Is that a thing? I mean, it’s social media where there’s literally no credibility whatsoever.
Their god must be really weak if he is unable to destroy a statue by himself.
Omnipotence. It ain’t what it used to be.
I’m beginning to wonder if they mistranslated “Impotence”.
Pfft. Their god can’t protect them from being shot up in fucking church.
What a useless, impotent little god He must be.
Puny god…That’s the problem with monotheism, the god has to run everything and even deities can get worn out. It’s why pantheons are better, the work gets delegated and important aspects get more focus.
And they still call it love.
They kill because they care.
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