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I'm so angry about this I don't know what to do.
AIDS, which while a horrible thing that we should all be political about, is not by and large a female sexuality problem? (I think this is why we're so loathe to include it--by and large, and my deepest sympathy to anyone who is an exception to this, this is not our problem.
One of my female patients died this week. It's a good thing HIV isn't a women's problem, isn't it?
I'm just sitting here shaking.
AIDS, which while a horrible thing that we should all be political about, is not by and large a female sexuality problem? (I think this is why we're so loathe to include it--by and large, and my deepest sympathy to anyone who is an exception to this, this is not our problem.
One of my female patients died this week. It's a good thing HIV isn't a women's problem, isn't it?
I'm just sitting here shaking.
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Your response was fantastic, btw - more people need to be given a clue-by-four in this department, and you did so eloquently.
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Jeeze, what a fuckwit.d
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Also remember that ignorance and bigotry isn't necessarily a permanent condition. The person who made that original post will hopefully learn. I get the impression that she is very young, and perhaps will grow wiser as she grows older. I say this from my own experience. I am ashamed to say that I was an unthinking bigot, for example, about gays when I was eighteen--not because anyone who was gay had ever hurt me in any way, but I had somehow absorbed the culture's toxic view of "those people." But life experience
led me reexamine my assumptions--as well as a few people who took the trouble to (somewhat tartly) point out the fallacies in my uncritical and unsophisticated thinking.
If it's any comfort, I think you did the right thing.
Peg
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