Pride-marchAs a queer I am worried
This weekend was the forbidden Pride in Budapest, and what I noticed was the (largely) lack of Palestinavlaggen. A relief. In recent years, pride activities in Western countries have increasingly seem to act as an anti-Israel protest. All this under the guise of intersectionality.
Because there appears to be room in prosperous countries for a broad, intersectional interpretation of the queere rights struggle, the impression is created that queer emancipation is complete. But nothing could be further from the truth. The anti-LHBTI sentiments fly around the west. In progressive Europe, life is made more difficult for you as an LGBTI, not only in Hungary, but also in countries such as Bulgaria.
Slowly but surely this anti-queer ghost towards the west, but in the west we are wise: there we only see conflicts outside our sphere of influence. Because transgender children are no longer allowed to receive care in the United States (interest group Transgender Network, even transparents descends to travel to this country), both in Italy and the United Kingdom, the existence of LHBTI people, the new IOC boss Kirsty Coventry is pretty ‘gender critic’ and the more than will the more than will the more than the more than the more than the more than will of the more than will of the more than wanting the more than will of the Ranger’s Transgender law.
Even GroenLinks/PvdA, the favorite of progressive voters, seemed to pay attention to motions about Israel and anti -capitalism at his party congress. Long story short: as a queer I am worried about our right to exist. LGBTI people have never had so good in the West, but the twilight has already fallen in Hungary. Orbáns Hungary is the evening country – and we are blind to it.
Puck Aben Amsterdam
Housing marketThat’s way too small
Coen Teulings would really mean that, his plea for the construction of tiny town houses of thirty square meters or less (The housing market crisis does not exist26/6)? Is this what a vital city needs, are these homes with future value, do people really want to live that way?
If the answers are no, why would you build such homes?
Or does Teulings want to show with his opimie how housing construction derails when the government renounces its public housing duties?
Louise Sijbranda Purmerend
Middle EastDo they know what Article 194 entails?
In their zeal to provide a better ‘geopolitical guideline’ to understand the wars in the Middle East, Beatrice de Graaf and Stefan Paas make the ‘religious narrative’-very important for both Jews and Sunni and Sjiite Muslims (28/6). They do not contribute convincing arguments in all cases, certainly not when it comes to Iran because there too Iranian nationalism there is a “eschatological mindset” the motivation of foreign politics.
In addition, it is just as manble as enigmatic when they argue in their final words to “finally take Article 194 of the UN seriously.” Chapeau would you say, especially if you – as the undersigned – choose “radical party” for the Palestinians, but have the authors realized what that article 194 (from 1948) entails?
The implementation, which the Palestinians have been calling for for decades, contains the right to return or compensation for Palestinian refugees who do not want to return. Hamas is for that just like Iran. Israel, with or without an eschatological mindest, is Mordicus against that.
Paul Aarts Amsterdam
TherapyFear is often the basis
As a male therapist I see men who are either sent (so scared and angry) or mentally completely demolished (scared and embarrassed). But rarely because they think it enriches them (How do you get a man in therapy?28/6). Men we have culturally learned that inferior is shameful and ‘upstairs’ (performance) good. Performing feels good, shame hurts. If something is wrong, the man is ashamed of it and nobody is allowed to know: let’s defend by screaming, exercising or pushing others down!
Therapy, discovering your emotional life, is anxious for a man because he thinks something is wrong with him.
The opposite is true.
Martijn Nieuwenhuisen Wooden
Rush hourMore compassion for the body like
As the father of a son and an expectant daughter, I read with growing surprise the last episode of the Rekentuur (28/6) section, in which a clinic for mothers – with plastic surgery and coaching – is displayed. The owners are noticed that “in the US this has of course been accepted for some time”. As an ecological pedagogy teacher, I see how students in my lectures openly discuss which treatments they save for.
These conversations make painfully clear how whipped beauty ideals and social media algorithms constantly strengthen each other, I find autonomy indispensable, but I also see social pressure increasing. I therefore want my plea to contribute to freedom of choice without coercion.
I hope that mothers mainly experience self -compassion, love and support from their environment. In addition, let’s equip our children – daughters and sons – with self -care, authenticity and critical media literacy, instead of having them chases beauty trends.
Bas van Nierop Zeist
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