Oh, Facebook
Jan. 30th, 2011 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chekhovs_whoreMy grama is on Facebook. A few members of my family are, and I'm friends with them. Have been for months. Whatever, it cut out the nagging, and thankfully, said family is on the anti-embarrassment bandwagon.
My aunt and grama, though, have this tendency to post Christian meme like statuses. Which is fine, but sometimes they make me roll my eyes. The ones that say "if you're a true Christian, you'll repost!" or "[<70]% won't repost this [for some reason that boils down to a "denial" of Christ]", or my current favorite, the one going around that says people won't repost out of a "fear of getting laughed at".
Really? Really?
These things piss me off because of a nonexistant ~victim card~ being played, but also because of a stupid kind of .... eugh. I don't even know. It couldn't possibly be that you think religion is mostly private, or that those horrible grammar cesspits of repostable statuses are worded horribly and messily and entirely dumb. Nope! You're a DENIER!
There's similar ones that float around about the Awareness Cause du jour (other rant for later), but I see these more often. The very basic of these damn things helps grind in this stereotype that those who are religious don't think for themselves, that it's a "Jump? How High?" scenario, which is unfair and ugly.
On that note, I'd like to talk about this ridiculous assumption of the Anti-Bigot Card.
There's a girl I'm friends with, who's a very outspoken feminist, LGBT-Ally, political activist, etc.
She seems to be under the impression, however, that on these things, she can't possibly be a bigot. If you had no knowledge of the people/groups she lambasts, I swear you could make the argument that the Right Wing Christians (note: not the Conservative Christian Right -- there's a difference) are a kind of Bogeyman that live in people's closets and suddenly spring all sorts of ridiculous impositions on them. Just being conservative or Christian is enough to get this woman's disdain.
She's done a lot in the community; environmentally, politically, socially, etc.
I keep wanting to shake her and let her know this doesn't give her the clear to hate and verbally abuse anyone who happens to have religion. Or happens to be politically conservative. It's not her calling as an ally. It's not her calling as a feminist, or a liberal.
In fact, I'd kind of like it if she stopped making her ally status all about her, how brave she is for being an ally.
Fully aware of the passive aggressive nature of this post, but five callings-out later and I've given up trying to talk to her. I don't know why I haven't unfriended her yet.
My aunt and grama, though, have this tendency to post Christian meme like statuses. Which is fine, but sometimes they make me roll my eyes. The ones that say "if you're a true Christian, you'll repost!" or "[<70]% won't repost this [for some reason that boils down to a "denial" of Christ]", or my current favorite, the one going around that says people won't repost out of a "fear of getting laughed at".
Really? Really?
These things piss me off because of a nonexistant ~victim card~ being played, but also because of a stupid kind of .... eugh. I don't even know. It couldn't possibly be that you think religion is mostly private, or that those horrible grammar cesspits of repostable statuses are worded horribly and messily and entirely dumb. Nope! You're a DENIER!
There's similar ones that float around about the Awareness Cause du jour (other rant for later), but I see these more often. The very basic of these damn things helps grind in this stereotype that those who are religious don't think for themselves, that it's a "Jump? How High?" scenario, which is unfair and ugly.
On that note, I'd like to talk about this ridiculous assumption of the Anti-Bigot Card.
There's a girl I'm friends with, who's a very outspoken feminist, LGBT-Ally, political activist, etc.
She seems to be under the impression, however, that on these things, she can't possibly be a bigot. If you had no knowledge of the people/groups she lambasts, I swear you could make the argument that the Right Wing Christians (note: not the Conservative Christian Right -- there's a difference) are a kind of Bogeyman that live in people's closets and suddenly spring all sorts of ridiculous impositions on them. Just being conservative or Christian is enough to get this woman's disdain.
She's done a lot in the community; environmentally, politically, socially, etc.
I keep wanting to shake her and let her know this doesn't give her the clear to hate and verbally abuse anyone who happens to have religion. Or happens to be politically conservative. It's not her calling as an ally. It's not her calling as a feminist, or a liberal.
In fact, I'd kind of like it if she stopped making her ally status all about her, how brave she is for being an ally.
Fully aware of the passive aggressive nature of this post, but five callings-out later and I've given up trying to talk to her. I don't know why I haven't unfriended her yet.
