{"id":357,"date":"2021-03-17T04:37:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minimoog.net\/daphne\/?p=357"},"modified":"2023-06-27T02:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T02:38:01","slug":"narrative-mostly-freewriting-7-gen-x-speaking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minimoog.net\/daphne\/narrative-mostly-freewriting-7-gen-x-speaking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Mostly Freewriting #7: Gen X Speaking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why the hell should we try to prevent society from becoming kinder and more accepting?  We know greed isn&#8217;t good, for so many reasons that have happened in our lifetime.  We&#8217;re smart enough to know that bigotry really doesn&#8217;t have a place in society.  We want &#8220;old fashioned&#8221; thinking to die out, and the art that represents those antiquated notions not to be readily available for general consumption.  Or, think of it this way&#8211;you don&#8217;t have the right to access a piece of art that is owned by someone else if they do not want to share it with the public.  Find other art to consume&#8211;there&#8217;s tons out there!  Stop insisting to be entertained by art that&#8217;s full of bigotry &#8220;because nostalgia.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frankly, we&#8217;re tired of the &#8220;Traditional&#8221; types pointing at the LGBTQ+ community and calling them sinners while allowing their religious leaders to violate children with little or no consequence.  That&#8217;s just not cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really, we&#8217;re not asking much.  Treat others the way you want to be treated.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It really doesn&#8217;t take much effort to strive to let your fellow humans to exist as genuinely as possible without letting it ruin your pursuit of happiness.  Who cares if somebody wants to define &#8220;family&#8221; differently than you do?  Is it a loving family?  Does everyone&#8217;s emotional needs get met?  Is everyone encouraged to be a good person and offered support where they need it?  Yes?  Then leave them alone and focus on your own damn family!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the hell should we try to prevent society from becoming kinder and more accepting? We know greed isn&#8217;t good, for so many reasons that have happened in our lifetime. We&#8217;re smart enough to know that bigotry really doesn&#8217;t have a place in society. We want &#8220;old fashioned&#8221; thinking to die out, and the art&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/minimoog.net\/daphne\/narrative-mostly-freewriting-7-gen-x-speaking-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Narrative Mostly Freewriting #7: Gen X Speaking Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[43,42,41],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daphne","category-journal","tag-gen-x","tag-generation-x","tag-genx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fVx5-5L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":222,"url":"https:\/\/minimoog.net\/daphne\/three-that-left-in-19\/","url_meta":{"origin":357,"position":0},"title":"Three That Left in &#8217;19","author":"Daphne Lightner","date":"December 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This year, the world lost one remarkable woman and two wonderful, brilliant, talented, and funny men to what Gilda Radner called \"The most unfunny thing in the world, cancer.\" It's been 30 years since we lost Gilda Radner. 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