It's not that I don't sympathize with "gender politics" or don't recognize the injustices done to women and queer people, BUT THESE POPULATIONS ARE NOT BEING FORCED TO DIE!
Sure they are. Just not as visibly. For example, withholding the HPV vaccine will kill several thousand women a year in the US alone. The fundamentalist "war on condoms" leads to many unnecessary infections by AIDS, Hepatitis, and deaths by childbirth complications (which is the leading cause of death for women in many countries). I've alleged that religious intolerance of queer people has lead to a stealth genocide: one in four queer people are kicked out of their homes as teenagers, and one in three queer teens attempts suicide, and virtually all are victims of bashing and harrassment. It's not happening in death camps or in the streets, it's happening behind closed doors, in people's bedrooms and bathtubs, but it is genocide nonetheless.
These things are all being done in the US in the name of Christianity. It's not as visible as classist cannibalism in the third world, but it is no less real.
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Re: "Christianism" Vs. "Christianity"
Date: 2006-04-06 05:10 pm (UTC)Sure they are. Just not as visibly. For example, withholding the HPV vaccine will kill several thousand women a year in the US alone. The fundamentalist "war on condoms" leads to many unnecessary infections by AIDS, Hepatitis, and deaths by childbirth complications (which is the leading cause of death for women in many countries). I've alleged that religious intolerance of queer people has lead to a stealth genocide: one in four queer people are kicked out of their homes as teenagers, and one in three queer teens attempts suicide, and virtually all are victims of bashing and harrassment. It's not happening in death camps or in the streets, it's happening behind closed doors, in people's bedrooms and bathtubs, but it is genocide nonetheless.
These things are all being done in the US in the name of Christianity. It's not as visible as classist cannibalism in the third world, but it is no less real.