Tantrum with blessings

RantWoman are you sure you want to spend part of your precious 20 minutes we have allocated this month out of our busy lives for that stuff you deal with all the time talking about Sex Offenders?

 What did not make it out of RantWoman’s mouth:

Well, ya know, we could all bingewatch every episode of Law and Order or Law and Order SVU that RantWoman remembers about crime and people with disabilities, plus one with other searing and somehow topical circumstances.  (RantWoman knows that Law and Order is kind of Last century. Cope. RantWoman is not really conversant in anything more contemporary. Cope.)

 Or, we could geek out on data about the rate of sexual assault among people with disabilities being twice the rate of people without disabilities.

 Or…Yes, actually I do. RantWoman goes considerably more often than you do to Quaker events where some issue or another can be guaranteed to cause Controversy. RantWoman has fresh information from two meetings you were not at, information that could be timely and shed Light on some registration questions for an upcoming event.

 RantWoman’s comments generated what she considered helpful questions to elucidate RantWoman’s thinking. RantWoman made a clear unambiguous recommendation though maybe it would have been helpful to spell out some timeline points.

 

Maybe it’s toxic sludge somehow mixed in RantWoman’s spiritual compost heap, but further thoughts also did not make it out of RantWoman’s mouth in terribly concise terms.

 Bless your heart! RantWoman cannot decide which of the following overtones of your comments to be more peeved at:

 --Sure, of course, how could RantWoman doubt that you know more about how to advocate for RantWoman’s needs than RantWoman herself does?

 --Why thank you for a sense that RantWoman has nothing to contribute to that conversation!

 --RantWoman also especially appreciates  the thought that you somehow know more about managing relationships with people you don’t even know but RantWoman does than RantWoman herself does.

 --Bless your heart. RantWoman gets that you are trying to fulfil a role. Please excuse RantWoman for the thought that what is needed is more knowledge in a whole network of people than one person trying to stay in control of things there is no controlling. Trust RantWoman on this. RantWoman goes considerably more often than you do to Quaker events where some issue or another can be guaranteed to cause Controversy. Consider pagan spirituality at the Women’s Theology Conference. Consider the FLGBTQC epistle at the World Gathering of Friends. In the best case Themes that cause Controversy work because there are many Friends able to hold different pieces and to witness in ways that seek shared language.

 

--Bless your heart. RantWoman also lately has been reading insurance policies and, peculiarly or not, the vulnerable adult statute for something else in her life. RantWoman considers it a GOOD thing when people can talk matter-of-factly about basic concepts.

 Bless your heart. May we please hold this tantrum in the Light!, especially because it was only one of several tantrum topic options after a recent meeting of…