I've worked at the public libraries in my area on and off for ten years. Libraries, in my part of the world (US) have become defacto homeless shelters - especially during extreme heat or cold. We have a significant number of mentally ill, drug addicted, and frankly perverted or damaged people in that group. Running into "trans" women was never a rarity, even 10 years ago. Why? Because the library functioned as an open air asylum on to many occasions. These trans "women" would come in, drug addled and sporting exotic names worthy of 1960s science fiction or a Tolkein book. I believe in libraries, even yet, because I feel like they are one of the few spaces where all walks of life can encounter each other and I still see their benefit to people seeking information or a place to be without having to pay a fee to enter. Nevertheless, I am irritated by my coworkers who blithely accept anything and everything in the name of "tolerance". Many of us go home to middle or upper middle class lives shielded from the drugs and the perversions, as this article rightly points out. We need to have solidarity with our fellow females. Also, supporting the lower classes in their degradation and delusion is cruel. It's a free range prison of the mind.
This is a real eye opener. I grew up in a large family without much money, but far from poor, or poor poor you describe. The most vulnerable people are the children of the poor. They are the ones we must protect first.
Well said.
I've always believed, that legislation would be different, if those who enacted it/voted for it, had to suffer the consequences of said legislation.
When you look down on the world, from your ivory tower, the ants look happy and things look like they are just fine.
We should have always ripped these ivory towers down, literally, brick by brick.
Of course, that's impossible now, so we're left with posts like yours, which are poignant, powerful and invaluable.
Everyone needs to read this.
I've worked at the public libraries in my area on and off for ten years. Libraries, in my part of the world (US) have become defacto homeless shelters - especially during extreme heat or cold. We have a significant number of mentally ill, drug addicted, and frankly perverted or damaged people in that group. Running into "trans" women was never a rarity, even 10 years ago. Why? Because the library functioned as an open air asylum on to many occasions. These trans "women" would come in, drug addled and sporting exotic names worthy of 1960s science fiction or a Tolkein book. I believe in libraries, even yet, because I feel like they are one of the few spaces where all walks of life can encounter each other and I still see their benefit to people seeking information or a place to be without having to pay a fee to enter. Nevertheless, I am irritated by my coworkers who blithely accept anything and everything in the name of "tolerance". Many of us go home to middle or upper middle class lives shielded from the drugs and the perversions, as this article rightly points out. We need to have solidarity with our fellow females. Also, supporting the lower classes in their degradation and delusion is cruel. It's a free range prison of the mind.
Ringing with truth, Roisin.
This is a real eye opener. I grew up in a large family without much money, but far from poor, or poor poor you describe. The most vulnerable people are the children of the poor. They are the ones we must protect first.