@DeenaLayton@gregbradyx Flight disruptions happen every day for weather, maintenance, and medical reasons. It’s an inherent risk of air travel. Being frustrated about a delay is valid, but turning that frustration into a public campaign against a child and their family isn't.
@conservmillen You can critique culture without misrepresenting science. Egg age, not uterine age dictates IVF success, freezing eggs isn't creating embryos, and having frozen eggs doesn’t mean natural birth is off the table. Moralizing family timing with medical fallacies isn't helpful.
@LizzieMarbach People over explain when they sense judgment, not when they feel guilt. He wasn't confessing. He was trying to survive a conversation with you.
@noraclark10@finellim70@PhilPerkinsCP24@CP24 Disabled and neurodivergent children have every right to exist in public spaces and travel. Expecting families to isolate themselves isn't the answer.
@conservmillen "There but for grace go I." Job’s friends made the exact same mistake: assuming a life in crisis meant a bad foundation, and a comfortable life proved righteousness. Circumstances aren't the metric for truth.
@conservmillen Discarding a concept based on the personal flaws of one author is just classic ad hominem. If our goal is actual truth and discernment, we should evaluate ideas by their substance...not by point scoring off someone’s personal life.
@toreycervantes@conservmillen They're actors in a traditional passion play reenactment. Covering faces of actors portraying revered historical/sacred figures is standard in this theatrical tradition. Allie intentionally left out the basic context of what event this is so people would call it "insane."
@TheAussieGirl33@conservmillen That’s because it’s a traditional passion play reenactment (Ta'zieh). When Allie strips away the fact that this is historical street theater, of course people are going to misinterpret what they're seeing. That's the whole point of her outrage bait.
@allthewildworld@conservmillen I respect that concern. Freedom and bodily autonomy matter. But when commentators strip cultural context away to paint every practice with a single broad brush, it completely shuts down the nuanced, honest conversations necessary to actually support women.
@allthewildworld@conservmillen Yes. In Shia reenactments (Ta'zieh), actors portraying male holy figures also wear face coverings so no individual's face represents sacred historical figures. It’s ceremonial theater tradition, not gendered modesty rules.
@conservmillen If you're going to build an entire platform on diagnosing culture, the bare minimum requirement is basic literacy. Ignorance is no longer an excuse when factual context is a quick search away.
@conservmillen Confusing historic Shia mourning garments used in an Ashura procession for "modesty garbs to mitigate male lust" isn't just a complete lack of religious literacy...it's deliberate rage bait.