Her reputation preceded her. As Bourne approached the lectern for public comment — shouting about “healthy, whole women!” — scores of district-area teachers got up from their seats and walked out of the meeting.
Bourne went ballistic.
“Ask those teachers to stop interrupting my comment!” she shouted at the meeting chair. “I want my time back! I want my time back!”
I mean yeah but it’s just so dumb to be hurt by your kid coming out as trans idk
Dumb to us.
There’s so many complexities at play of which I don’t think any of us can assume to know.
It’s a shame regardless.
I’m sorry but comments like these are why we’re at where we’re at in my opinion.
Yes, hurt people hurt people, but that isn’t an excuse. If you violate the social contract, you lose the right to participate in the privileges of said social contract.
At what point to we stop giving these people passes for the sheer amount of violence and vitriol they put into this world?
If the majority of society finds this woman fucking stupid as hell, then I’d say it’s safe to assume, she’s stupid as fucking hell and this we deal with her appropriately.
Everyone has a right to an opinion, but that right doesn’t exclude you from the consequences of being a fucking moron.
Prejudice isn’t a “complexity”. It’s a lack of any subtlety or complexity: “X people era bad regardless of anything and that’s final”. Regardless even of being your own child.
Trust me, I understand wanting to make excuses for people and wanting to believe that there’s a little good in everyone but sometimes there just isn’t.