As a member of a downtrodden community, Iâm just asking for respect
January 29, 2021 â 11.55pm
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As a member of a historically persecuted, cruelly marginalised, and tragically downtrodden community, Iâd like to take this opportunity to rise up and demand a bit of respect for my people ⦠we, the Tummy Sleepers, who sleep on our tums.
For millennia we have been the least valued of the three major sleep-faiths.
For millennia we have been the least valued of the three major sleep-faiths, cowering in the shadows of the smug, superior Side Sleepers with their correctly aligned spines, and the brash, boorish Back Sleepers with their dry windburned snore-lips. For millennia we have been mocked and insulted, bed-partners laughing at us and saying âAwwwww, do you like to sleep on your widdle tum-tum? How do you even breathe? Through your skin like a frog? Haw haw!â And we are forced to laugh along, holding our hurt inside,