Conversion therapy is a form of torture.
It’s as stupid as expecting someone to change their blue eyes, to green eyes.
You can’t blame people for genetics, and you cannot just decide, as a blue eyed person, that you are now a green eyed person.
It’s not a decision, there is no therapy or medication or surgery to “fix” what is not broken.
It’s just abuse.
We have already been through this with Left Handers. Being left handed is normal. Gay people are normal.
Religion does not exist to help people, it’s purpose is to control people.
Growing up in the USSR they forced everyone to write with our right hand. You get beaten if you don’t. Was really hard for my cousin because he’s left handed. He just learned to fake it for the teachers.
not only in russia, but christianized countries. or christian schools. Left handness was very discouraged when i was growing up. i only wrote with the left hand.
they did though, is the thing, particularly in Russian and Ukraine, less so in Ukbekistan and Kazakhstan. where i can sympathize with your “USSR always better” posturing here though is that the violence against children in Russia intensified after the collapse of the soviet union. additionally eugenics programs structured against left handed people were not unique to the soviet bloc, with the last law in the united states mandating the punishment of children for left-handedness being repealed in 2004 after a teacher in Tazewell, Virginia paddled a child for their lefthandedness in first grade.
however, in order to forge a better future we have to look back at history with a critical gaze to understand how we came to stand where we stand. violence against left handed children in the USSR was real, and to dismiss it with a simple “no they didn’t” is disrespectful and dismissive to real people’s lived experience that we can still draw from today. my neighbor in his 40s danced when that law was repealed in 2004 because he was so excited no child would be allowed to be scarred the way he was in a Russian orphanage in the 80s. he is today an organizer and advocate for that all forms of corporal punishment against children should be ceased as it’s just a normalization for when they’re adults. i find your flippancy with “no they didn’t” absurd and dismissive
I agree that it’s a form of torture, but someone can’t ever have eyes be a different color because of the trauma. People do act like and belive they’re straight because of the trauma forced upon them from conversation therapy.
They also often gain hatred of those who are like they “used to be”, and there’s no real mirror for that in eye color.
And just to be clear, I say none of this to minimise the horrors of conversation therapy.
Conversion therapy is a form of torture. It’s as stupid as expecting someone to change their blue eyes, to green eyes. You can’t blame people for genetics, and you cannot just decide, as a blue eyed person, that you are now a green eyed person. It’s not a decision, there is no therapy or medication or surgery to “fix” what is not broken. It’s just abuse.
We have already been through this with Left Handers. Being left handed is normal. Gay people are normal. Religion does not exist to help people, it’s purpose is to control people.
Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.
Growing up in the USSR they forced everyone to write with our right hand. You get beaten if you don’t. Was really hard for my cousin because he’s left handed. He just learned to fake it for the teachers.
This was common globally (yes, even the US and Europe) until frankly frighteningly recently
It happened to me and I’m not even 40 yet, and yes I’m from Europe
How did he fake being right-handed?
I’m naturally right-handed and I’ve tried to do things left-handed before and it is insanely difficult, maddening really.
Developing ambidextrous talent I guess. I remember when they are watching he’d use right, then switch to left for the rest and homework.
not only in russia, but christianized countries. or christian schools. Left handness was very discouraged when i was growing up. i only wrote with the left hand.
No they didn’t
they did though, is the thing, particularly in Russian and Ukraine, less so in Ukbekistan and Kazakhstan. where i can sympathize with your “USSR always better” posturing here though is that the violence against children in Russia intensified after the collapse of the soviet union. additionally eugenics programs structured against left handed people were not unique to the soviet bloc, with the last law in the united states mandating the punishment of children for left-handedness being repealed in 2004 after a teacher in Tazewell, Virginia paddled a child for their lefthandedness in first grade.
however, in order to forge a better future we have to look back at history with a critical gaze to understand how we came to stand where we stand. violence against left handed children in the USSR was real, and to dismiss it with a simple “no they didn’t” is disrespectful and dismissive to real people’s lived experience that we can still draw from today. my neighbor in his 40s danced when that law was repealed in 2004 because he was so excited no child would be allowed to be scarred the way he was in a Russian orphanage in the 80s. he is today an organizer and advocate for that all forms of corporal punishment against children should be ceased as it’s just a normalization for when they’re adults. i find your flippancy with “no they didn’t” absurd and dismissive
Lol not reading all that shit, prove me wrong or fuck yourself with a cactus loser
Sometimes you guys make it hard to laugh at you because you’re just so damn sad
Cool story kiddo
Finally, a Ted Talk that didn’t suck.
If you count Apollo Robbin’s and that guy with the spam mail rant (which really is quite fun) that brings the count up to… three?
I agree that it’s a form of torture, but someone can’t ever have eyes be a different color because of the trauma. People do act like and belive they’re straight because of the trauma forced upon them from conversation therapy.
They also often gain hatred of those who are like they “used to be”, and there’s no real mirror for that in eye color.
And just to be clear, I say none of this to minimise the horrors of conversation therapy.
Simply put on these uncomfortable green contact lenses every day. Problem solved, just endure the increasing ocular irritation.