locke besse
1 min readJul 21, 2022

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I must respectfully disagree with your conclusion. Yes the literalist fundamentalists can believe whatever they want to believe and teach it within their own little communities. For Society at large, they have no right to impose their misogynistic and sexist beliefs on the rest of us. There is no common ground for understanding. I can understand them in the same way I can understand the mind of a racist or a believer that the earth is flat. That does not mean that their ideas are worthy of being given any credence as just a different perspective on the world. Beliefs which have no validity are not worthy of further discussion. Their discounting of the value and rights of more than half of humanity is bigoted, intolerable, oppressive, and inaccurate. It is based upon ancient social structures and belief systems that have little to do with reality and certainly have no application for today— not to mention they are dangerous.

It is exactly the attitudes towards women that you describe which have led to the oppressive legislation in half the states in this country and the biased misogynistic decision of the current Supreme Court in Dobbs which is populated with judges having these appallingly narrow minded beliefs. This is the real danger. They all need to be exposed and treated as the ignorant charlatans that they are.

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locke besse
locke besse

Written by locke besse

Eclectic trans woman, terminally curious. Too many degrees. Trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Attract stray puppies and social outcasts

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