serious anecdote is serious
Jan. 20th, 2009 01:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanI try not to get involved in serious business discussions or wank in fandom anymore. I don't know if it's from spending more time on anonymous sites or some sort of change in overall mood or brain chemistry or just not caring, but I can't argue seriously without wanting to use capslock, so I don't.
This thread reminds me of something that happened when I was twelve. I'd been going to Hebrew school since I was in first grade and was going to have my Bat Mitzvah pretty soon. I was in my first "too edgy for religion" stage and was just starting to come to terms with being an atheist, and I really didn't want to go through a ritual that I considered to be pointless, archaic, and a waste of my time.
I complained about this to my Grandma Chris, who I thought would be sympathetic because she was in a New Age phase. "I don't feel Jewish," I said, "and it would just be a lie for me to go through with it. This stuff all means nothing to me."
"Listen," she said, "you may not feel Jewish, but the Nazis sure would have counted you as a Jew. You'd have still had to find an attic to hide in."
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In other news, I'm going down to Ferndale with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
josephwaldman tomorrow to watch Obama's inauguration at the GLBT center.
I decided a while ago that I would donate a small amount of money to PP for every statement I saw on the Internet about women's rights, birth control, or reproductive choice that made me mad enough to want to argue, and I think January 20th is a good cut-off for that. Thus far the total has come to somewhere around $20, and that's just on Livejournal. I'm going to get up early and do that tomorrow.
This thread reminds me of something that happened when I was twelve. I'd been going to Hebrew school since I was in first grade and was going to have my Bat Mitzvah pretty soon. I was in my first "too edgy for religion" stage and was just starting to come to terms with being an atheist, and I really didn't want to go through a ritual that I considered to be pointless, archaic, and a waste of my time.
I complained about this to my Grandma Chris, who I thought would be sympathetic because she was in a New Age phase. "I don't feel Jewish," I said, "and it would just be a lie for me to go through with it. This stuff all means nothing to me."
"Listen," she said, "you may not feel Jewish, but the Nazis sure would have counted you as a Jew. You'd have still had to find an attic to hide in."
*
In other news, I'm going down to Ferndale with
josephwaldman tomorrow to watch Obama's inauguration at the GLBT center. I decided a while ago that I would donate a small amount of money to PP for every statement I saw on the Internet about women's rights, birth control, or reproductive choice that made me mad enough to want to argue, and I think January 20th is a good cut-off for that. Thus far the total has come to somewhere around $20, and that's just on Livejournal. I'm going to get up early and do that tomorrow.
