Lady Whistledown Has Entered the Chat

We’re done playing nice with hypocrites and hall monitors.

Dear Bible-thumping, pearl-clutching parents,

It’s wild, isn’t it? The same folks shouting from the steeple that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” are somehow convinced that their child might spontaneously combust into gayness after reading a book with a rainbow on the cover. Not even a racy book! Just a normal one where a kid has two moms or a classmate goes by they/them.

These are the same parents raising their kids in fire-and-brimstone churches, then acting shocked when those kids grow up and sprint away from the faith the first chance they get. They can’t fathom how a child exposed to “the Truth” could choose love, autonomy, and self-respect over shame, repression, and an eternal guilt trip. It’s almost as if indoctrination doesn’t stick when it’s built on fear.

But what do they do instead of self-reflecting? They lawyer up. They run to the Supreme Court, waving their “parental rights” flags, demanding to opt their children out of anything remotely inclusive. Rainbow flag in a classroom? Triggered. A storybook that says families come in all shapes? Outrage. God forbid a lesson affirms a student’s identity… they see that as a threat, not a kindness.

And the Supreme Court (America’s highest gavel of grievance cosplaying as justice) handed them the win. Parents now have the right to opt their kids out of educational content they don’t like. Great. Fantastic. Let’s run with it.

If They Can Opt Out, So Can We

Because here’s the thing: “parental rights” aren’t just theirs. They’re ours too.

So let’s play the game. If a school hangs the Ten Commandments in the classroom like it’s a legally binding document in Texas (spoiler: it’s not), opt your kid out. If they start teaching purity culture in sex ed, pull your kid. If your school bans books for being “too gay” but still teaches from a worldview that excludes and erases, opt the hell out.

Let’s stop pretending this is a debate. It’s a power play. So play back.

Progressive parents, it’s time we get organized—not just in comments sections or school board meetings, but with our feet and our calendars. Every time they use their parental rights to erase our families, we use ours to resist.

Make It Hurt Where It Counts—Funding

Here’s a little administrative secret: public school funding is tied to attendance. Every day your child sits in that desk? Money in the school’s pocket. Every day they’re not there? Money lost.

So imagine if enough progressive parents started opting out. One day, two days, a week at a time. That’s a budget shortfall they can’t ignore. If we do it right, if we coordinate, it becomes more than a protest. It becomes pressure.

Because money talks. And when schools realize they’ll lose dollars every time they pander to extremist nonsense, they’ll think twice before caving to the next book-banning crusade.

Creepy? Let’s Talk About Creepy

Let’s flip the narrative for a second.

What’s actually creepy here? A children’s book where a kid has two dads? Or the fact that these parents are obsessed with what other people’s children read, wear, feel, identify as, and love?

Why are they so invested in our bodies? Why do they feel entitled to monitor who we sleep with, how we love, how we raise our children? Why do they speak about queer lives with such invasive intensity?

That’s not morality. That’s obsession. It’s voyeurism wrapped in virtue signaling.

We need to start calling them what they are: creepy. These folks are the ones with the unhealthy fixation on LGBTQ+ people, not the other way around. And we need to say it out loud, over and over again, until the spotlight is so bright they can’t squirm out of it.

Expose the Hypocrisy

And okay, I might be going a little far here, but if I had kids in school right now? I’d go full-on investigative drama.

I’d start digging. I’d find out whose husband is hooking up with his “accountability partner” from Bible study. Who’s on marriage number three but still wagging their finger at “the gays.” Who’s quietly sending their kid to therapy to pray the gay away while maintaining a picture-perfect Facebook feed.

And then? I’d start sharing.

If they want to put our families on blast, let’s give them a taste of their own medicine. If they want to moralize, let’s pull back the curtain on their own “family values.”

Frankly, every school district should have a Lady Whistledown of their own. Let’s get some town gossip energy going. You want a culture war? Okay, here’s your newsletter. We’ll see how committed you are to “decency” when your own skeletons start cha-chaing out of the closet.

We’re Not the Minority—We’re Just Quieter

This loud, fear-mongering crowd? They’re not the majority. They just act like it because they’ve gamed the system, shouted the loudest, and bullied the most people into silence.

No more.

We don’t have to stoop to hate. But we can meet them with strategy, sarcasm, and solidarity. Opt out. Organize. Hit the budget. Expose the hypocrisy. Make their creepy little witch hunt too uncomfortable to continue.

Because at the end of the day, we’re not afraid of rainbow flags, inclusive books, or kids discovering who they really are. We’re afraid of silence. And we’re done being quiet.

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