Since women are now DEI, my house feels like Handmaid's Tale

I'm left leaning and so is my SO, and when we met, I was fairly radical and involved in quite a bit of activism. That tapered off a bit when we started dating in 2016, and dropped dramatically when our DS was born with severe medical complications in 2018. As time went on and DS got worse and worse and required transplant, SO became JNO, but unfortunately, due to the rarity, complexity, and labor involved in DS's care, we are literally the only two people on the planet qualified to take care of him outside of a hospital setting, and since it is a two person job, we pushed forward and attempted to work through our issues with some notable improvements thanks to EFT therapy.

Fast forward to summer of 2024 when everything went to hell with DS's health in the South where we were from and every hospital in our state refused to treat him. I relocated to the Midwest, got a job, SO stayed behind with DS and the other kids to sell the house and pack everything up to move. Eventually everyone finally winds up in the Midwest. The most recent election came and went. Obviously I was not happy, but the kids were settling into their new lives, SO and I were doing well, so we just focused on our family. That is, until the massive deportation started. And then the DEI initiatives.

Those two things back to back affected our family intimately in a few ways. 1. My oldest DS is Latino from my first marriage and is one of maybe 5 non white kids in our teeny tiny, white Trump supporting town. He is light skinned, and it has not been too much of an issue, but there have been a few... questionable things that did not come up in more urban/diverse areas. 2. Once I heard they were rolling back equal opportunity protections, I raced to look at the government's comprehensive list of exactly what they were talking about and found the Defense Intelligence Agency's official memo that literally listed every single group inclusive, except for white men. I had never seen women listed as a exclusionary group before. Then I saw pictures of them covering up women's portraits. I started experiencing a type of existential crisis I had never experienced.

So as the days went on and the atrocities started to mount, obviously my outrage only increased. My fear for my eldest DS regarding racial profiling and ICE, fear of fascist eugenics persecution of my disabled DS, and fear of project2025 baby machine rhetoric pressed onto my DD. Not to mention, my family is completely dependent on social security, so I have been blowing up my elected officials phones shrieking at them to do something about Elon Musk infiltrating our Treasury.

And throughout all of this, I have wanted to take to the streets, as I have every other time I have perceived injustice in the world. However, SO has consistently brushed me off for days with one excuse or another. One day it's :

"Oh, what are we going to do with the kids..." "Well, we can bring them with us..." "Well, I don't know if there's really any leadership..." "Yeah, because you're so busy trying to see what the 'other side' is up to, that your feed isn't showing you the right sources." "Well, they may be using this as an opportunity to round people up..." "You're allowing yourself to be manipulated by fear tactics when there is no evidence that protesters have been harmed." "WELL I'M NOT GOING BECAUSE ITS POINTLESS AND WHATS A BUNCH OF YELLING GOING TO DO?!?! NOTHING!!!"

To which I responded...

"Yep. There it is. You're weak and nihilistic."

I swear to God, (some) of these white boys are just so fucking fragile. If they don't put us in the white bonnets themselves, their silence will.