lindseymysse

What about sexual abuse that happens within our own communities? I was chemically balded at Billings West High School after coming forward about my childhood sexual abuse in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

At least one of the men who chemically balded me is a policeman now, the principal who oversaw it got a cushy job with the catholic diocese that abused hundreds (thousands?) of kids, his daughter got a sinecure with the same church.

There are predators who are principals and pastors who are allowed to prey on our children with impunity, and if they speak up they are maimed for life. When are we going to start taking this seriously?

I think I should be allowed to talk about the pain this culture caused me.

Your assuming evangelical culture is in anyway consistent or theologically sound.

How do you know? Why are you minimizing the pain of this practices victims? This is the equivalent of saying: My dad beat me and I turned out fine.

Men's pain should be recognized and not minimized.

I know this quite well -- the last thing the Evangelical Church ever did to me was chemically bald me at Billings West High School in 1998-99. I have horns, they mark me as outside their wicked culture. I'm proud to be outside of it.

My circumcision was just the first violation of my body the Evangelical church put me through as a child -- finally culminating in my chemical balding at Billings West High School in 1998-99 after coming forward about my childhood sexual abuse in the Lutheran Church.

If you read anything about modern evangelical thought the single worst thing a child could demand is their autonomy, and well, anyway, every time I look in the mirror right-wing America gets to kick me in the face again.

Wicked culture, all of it.

A trackball module? That's even better than a pointing stick!

Thanks for the tip, I'm interested!

I have a Thinkpad X200t from about 10 years ago and a maxed-out Thinkpad X1 Carbon from 2 years ago. I am selling the X1 soon, simply because I hate the keyboard on modern laptops.

I don't understand why people tolerate crappy keyboards on their laptops for the sake of their laptops getting thinner and thinner (and don't get me started on the clicky, insect-like sound of the Macintosh butterfly keys). Why is a more thin laptop more desirable than one that is enjoyable to type on?

The other option, however -- the Alien wares with mechanical keyboards have a video-gamer do-the-dew aesthetic that I would be embarrassed to walk into an office with.

I spend 8 hours a day typing, the tactile sensation is a vital part of enjoying it.

My kingdom for a modern laptop with a keyboard that is an inch thick, anonymous-box with a good keyboard that is repairable and upgradable.

I hope the frame.work laptop can provide a version with an excellent mechanical keyboard soon.

The point of the book is that they aren't. Also, there is no real monetary value for environmental degradation. I'd recommend the book, it's very illuminating about the issue.