Over the last six months I've thought about this a blog a lot. And by a lot, I mean at least 5 or 6 times. When you can be as scattered as me, this is pretty impressive actually.
I am going to strive to jot down some random thoughts pertaining to the bullshit I see going on in the world around me more often. I think that purging the negativity that you feel about stupidity going on in the world can be immensely cathartic, so that's like therapy, right?
Also, it's good for the soul (or reasonable facsimile) to think about some great things from time to time as well. So I hope to share some thoughts on positive things going on in the world as well.
Hopefully, I can convince Bravewolf into getting back on board as well. I always prefer to work as a team. It's hard to be snarky in a vacuum.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Thursday, February 10, 2011
I was just looking for an interesting discussion...
I was perusing the internet last week and came across this slightly interesting article about the existence of Jesus. Since I didn't have much time, I whipped off a quick, but poignant, point.
My point being that the existence in a historical Jesus does not in fact mean that he was any sort of messiah. Apparently I was way out of line though.
So, of course, I had to go back later and poke the bloggy wasps nest with a stick..
I found a number of really interesting things out about some hyper-religious bloggers.
1. Some of them don't know that "X" for Christ isn't some sort of new age atheist insult.
and 2. they didn't seem to understand that people that don't believe in *their* gods aren't necessarily atheists (or of very low intelligence either)
The author of the article, Mark Shea, had this lovely bit of Xian love for me..
"Your problem is not that you make up you morality. Your problems is that you steal it from your Judeo-Christian heritage. Virtually all the shallow members of the New Atheist movement do this. They are like vandals raiding the Christian warehouse and grabbing bits of morality they live. Or more precisely, they are like children leaving home after ransacking the attic for stuff they didn’t create, oblivious to the fact that the morality they take to be “self-evident” is completely rooted in mystical principles they reject in their simple-mindededness.
They are also, as you demonstrate with every word you say, typically unable to stick to the point (in this case, that it’s stupid to deny Jesus’ existence) because they are in such a hurry to find some excuse for denying him. Some, like you, are able to see that certain arguments (like “Jesus never existed”) embarrass and endanger the project of denial by making atheists look so acutely stupid that the subject must be rapidly changed. But rather than look that stupidity in the eye and ask, “Is New Atheism really all *that* rooted in Reason and Intellect as worshippers of the intellect like Fred B parrot?” Or could it be that there are some basic flaws in the project as users of the intellect like YOS keep demonstrating, over your futile resistance?
Moral: contempt is a bad basis for understanding something. When you drip contempt for Christianity, you put yourself in the worst possible position for having the slightest idea what you are talking about."
So class, what did we learn from this endeavor? Well, apparently morality didn't exist before Judaism (I wonder how humanity survived before then?) And if you want to prove that you're right, you should insult the person you disagree with as much as possible.
Good job Mark Shea.
My point being that the existence in a historical Jesus does not in fact mean that he was any sort of messiah. Apparently I was way out of line though.
So, of course, I had to go back later and poke the bloggy wasps nest with a stick..
I found a number of really interesting things out about some hyper-religious bloggers.
1. Some of them don't know that "X" for Christ isn't some sort of new age atheist insult.
and 2. they didn't seem to understand that people that don't believe in *their* gods aren't necessarily atheists (or of very low intelligence either)
The author of the article, Mark Shea, had this lovely bit of Xian love for me..
"Your problem is not that you make up you morality. Your problems is that you steal it from your Judeo-Christian heritage. Virtually all the shallow members of the New Atheist movement do this. They are like vandals raiding the Christian warehouse and grabbing bits of morality they live. Or more precisely, they are like children leaving home after ransacking the attic for stuff they didn’t create, oblivious to the fact that the morality they take to be “self-evident” is completely rooted in mystical principles they reject in their simple-mindededness.
They are also, as you demonstrate with every word you say, typically unable to stick to the point (in this case, that it’s stupid to deny Jesus’ existence) because they are in such a hurry to find some excuse for denying him. Some, like you, are able to see that certain arguments (like “Jesus never existed”) embarrass and endanger the project of denial by making atheists look so acutely stupid that the subject must be rapidly changed. But rather than look that stupidity in the eye and ask, “Is New Atheism really all *that* rooted in Reason and Intellect as worshippers of the intellect like Fred B parrot?” Or could it be that there are some basic flaws in the project as users of the intellect like YOS keep demonstrating, over your futile resistance?
Moral: contempt is a bad basis for understanding something. When you drip contempt for Christianity, you put yourself in the worst possible position for having the slightest idea what you are talking about."
So class, what did we learn from this endeavor? Well, apparently morality didn't exist before Judaism (I wonder how humanity survived before then?) And if you want to prove that you're right, you should insult the person you disagree with as much as possible.
Good job Mark Shea.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
No... we all work for a living
Quick recap: My common-law husband/live-in boyfriend/constantly present significant other had a kidney transplant on July 7. He will have to stay in Vancouver General Hospital until they are certain that he is not going to reject the new organ. Then he gets to stay in Vancouver for 2-3 months at a condo graciously provided by the Kidney Foundation of Canada for transplant and dialysis patients.
I took nearly a week off of work to be there for him during this period. This is a significant issue, since while I make a decent amount, I don't make enough to take significant periods of time off with less than a week's notice.
So when the army of nurses, doctors and social workers descended upon Mischa and I, 'voicing concerns' over the fact that he was going to be all alone in his condo during the week, I got pissed off.
"It's very important that he have someone with him."
"He needs to have someone in contact with him at all times."
"This is not an ideal situation."
Well, I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but I do not belong to a union that would authorize me to take 2-3 months off of work at 75% of my pay. I do not have tenure. I do not even have enough vacation time to cover the days I've missed thus far.
Kindly tell me how I am to pull in enough money so that we can both eat, Mischa can make it to his twice-a-week appointments and have the many little things that make living so pleasant, like shampoo, toothpaste and soap? How am I going to keep my job if my work doesn't allow me to telecommute so I can both take care of Mischa and keep earning money?
I get that it's very important that someone be with him. However, all our friends are either working for a living, have small children, are elderly or are handicapped. Amazingly enough, we don't have people who can just drop what they're doing to live in Vancouver for 3 months to run errands and monitor a kidney transplant patient.
No, this isn't an ideal situation. An ideal situation is where I'm a writer who works from home - or a coffee shop - who can pause, rearrange and schedule my time around Mischa's care for this period. I'm not a writer with that level of privilege.
I resent people telling me that my income level and work restrictions are serious drawbacks to getting proper care for someone in my life who needs help. No, I didn't plan for this when I went to work hundreds of km from VGH. I also didn't foresee the need for me to become a top-ranking doctor, lawyer, or some other high paying professional who can drop everything to care for someone.
Give your collective heads a shake.
I took nearly a week off of work to be there for him during this period. This is a significant issue, since while I make a decent amount, I don't make enough to take significant periods of time off with less than a week's notice.
So when the army of nurses, doctors and social workers descended upon Mischa and I, 'voicing concerns' over the fact that he was going to be all alone in his condo during the week, I got pissed off.
"It's very important that he have someone with him."
"He needs to have someone in contact with him at all times."
"This is not an ideal situation."
Well, I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but I do not belong to a union that would authorize me to take 2-3 months off of work at 75% of my pay. I do not have tenure. I do not even have enough vacation time to cover the days I've missed thus far.
Kindly tell me how I am to pull in enough money so that we can both eat, Mischa can make it to his twice-a-week appointments and have the many little things that make living so pleasant, like shampoo, toothpaste and soap? How am I going to keep my job if my work doesn't allow me to telecommute so I can both take care of Mischa and keep earning money?
I get that it's very important that someone be with him. However, all our friends are either working for a living, have small children, are elderly or are handicapped. Amazingly enough, we don't have people who can just drop what they're doing to live in Vancouver for 3 months to run errands and monitor a kidney transplant patient.
No, this isn't an ideal situation. An ideal situation is where I'm a writer who works from home - or a coffee shop - who can pause, rearrange and schedule my time around Mischa's care for this period. I'm not a writer with that level of privilege.
I resent people telling me that my income level and work restrictions are serious drawbacks to getting proper care for someone in my life who needs help. No, I didn't plan for this when I went to work hundreds of km from VGH. I also didn't foresee the need for me to become a top-ranking doctor, lawyer, or some other high paying professional who can drop everything to care for someone.
Give your collective heads a shake.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
FGM Rant!
Clitoridectomy; Wikipedia; The Age and Islam WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC PHOTOS (admittedly, this is a site biased against Islam, but it shows you exactly what happens before, during and after the mutilation)
Friendly Atheist on Ayaan Hirsi Ali
How can people do this to their children? How can people come to North America and send their kids back to their countries of origin to get this done? You know, I'm all about diversity and religious tolerance, but I cannot condone or understand this kind of behaviour. I don't give two shits about why people do it or what cultural impetus is driving them. This is the worst cycle of abuse I've ever heard about.
Right now, female genital mutilation (FGM) is in the news because the American Academy of Pediatrics has approved a 'ritual nick' performed for religious or cultural reasons. They claim that it could be a compromise between preventing mutilation and not allowing the procedure and driving families back to their home countries to have the full mutilation carried out.
I think that's bullshit.
If your home life is insane enough that you value ripping your kid's labia and clitoris off their body over any trifling concerns about pain, infection and the quality of their future health, then you're not going to be satisfied with a ritual "nick". You're going to go for the whole shebang. What's worst is that this is often encouraged by females who have had it done to them, so you're not going to get a lot of support from people who have been raised to think that this is the only way for them to succeed in life.
Hell, if you're in some idiot country where people think this is a good idea, it probably is your only way to succeed. And, yeah, I said "idiot". If you want me to change my mind, stop mutilating women. But these people are in the U.S. and in the U.S., while things aren't perfect, there are plenty of opportunities for women to succeed, all of which don't involve getting parts of their body sawn off and sewed shut.
There has been incidences in Canada, enough that the Canadian Criminal Code has been amended to prohibit the practice of removal of a child under 14 to another country for the purpose of committing FGM.
I am biased, I am taking this personally and I am most certainly not cognizant of every aspect of this practice. I don't give a fuck. People who support this practice are fucked in the head and should be stopped at every opportunity with legislation that ruins their fucking lives if they try this or succeed at it. Their children should be taken away and put in homes where the people have a half-assed idea of what it is to treat people like human beings and not like objects that need to be modified to bring the best price on the open market.
Friendly Atheist on Ayaan Hirsi Ali
How can people do this to their children? How can people come to North America and send their kids back to their countries of origin to get this done? You know, I'm all about diversity and religious tolerance, but I cannot condone or understand this kind of behaviour. I don't give two shits about why people do it or what cultural impetus is driving them. This is the worst cycle of abuse I've ever heard about.
Right now, female genital mutilation (FGM) is in the news because the American Academy of Pediatrics has approved a 'ritual nick' performed for religious or cultural reasons. They claim that it could be a compromise between preventing mutilation and not allowing the procedure and driving families back to their home countries to have the full mutilation carried out.
I think that's bullshit.
If your home life is insane enough that you value ripping your kid's labia and clitoris off their body over any trifling concerns about pain, infection and the quality of their future health, then you're not going to be satisfied with a ritual "nick". You're going to go for the whole shebang. What's worst is that this is often encouraged by females who have had it done to them, so you're not going to get a lot of support from people who have been raised to think that this is the only way for them to succeed in life.
Hell, if you're in some idiot country where people think this is a good idea, it probably is your only way to succeed. And, yeah, I said "idiot". If you want me to change my mind, stop mutilating women. But these people are in the U.S. and in the U.S., while things aren't perfect, there are plenty of opportunities for women to succeed, all of which don't involve getting parts of their body sawn off and sewed shut.
There has been incidences in Canada, enough that the Canadian Criminal Code has been amended to prohibit the practice of removal of a child under 14 to another country for the purpose of committing FGM.
I am biased, I am taking this personally and I am most certainly not cognizant of every aspect of this practice. I don't give a fuck. People who support this practice are fucked in the head and should be stopped at every opportunity with legislation that ruins their fucking lives if they try this or succeed at it. Their children should be taken away and put in homes where the people have a half-assed idea of what it is to treat people like human beings and not like objects that need to be modified to bring the best price on the open market.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
How it all began
4:05:48 Nim Bravewolf "features stunning turquoise waters "
4:06:08 Bravewolf Nim especially when you plummet into them from the bridge where you decided to end it all
4:06:15 Nim Bravewolf gives me the mental image of people arriving at the beach and just standing there looking at it, dumbfounded
4:06:19 Nim Bravewolf because they're stunned :)
4:06:32 Bravewolf Nim beaches of south zombies
4:06:37 Nim Bravewolf nice, yes
4:08:39 Nim Bravewolf you what I like?
4:08:53 Bravewolf Nim No, I don't what you like.
4:08:58 Nim Bravewolf pfft liar
4:09:02 Bravewolf Nim forbidden words?
4:09:06 Bravewolf Nim invisible words
4:09:21 Nim Bravewolf what I mean in particular though, is that I can say the most absurd and non-sequitor things to you, and you just roll with it
4:09:24 Bravewolf Nim attractive hats
4:09:28 Bravewolf Nim haha
4:10:09 Bravewolf Nim we should have our own show
4:10:11 Nim Bravewolf lol
4:10:29 Nim Bravewolf we need our own "wtf blog"
4:10:31 Bravewolf Nim haha
4:10:54 Bravewolf Nim "Stupid/amazing things from around the web and our heads"
4:11:00 Nim Bravewolf yes
4:11:02 Nim Bravewolf exactly
4:06:08 Bravewolf Nim especially when you plummet into them from the bridge where you decided to end it all
4:06:15 Nim Bravewolf gives me the mental image of people arriving at the beach and just standing there looking at it, dumbfounded
4:06:19 Nim Bravewolf because they're stunned :)
4:06:32 Bravewolf Nim beaches of south zombies
4:06:37 Nim Bravewolf nice, yes
4:08:39 Nim Bravewolf you what I like?
4:08:53 Bravewolf Nim No, I don't what you like.
4:08:58 Nim Bravewolf pfft liar
4:09:02 Bravewolf Nim forbidden words?
4:09:06 Bravewolf Nim invisible words
4:09:21 Nim Bravewolf what I mean in particular though, is that I can say the most absurd and non-sequitor things to you, and you just roll with it
4:09:24 Bravewolf Nim attractive hats
4:09:28 Bravewolf Nim haha
4:10:09 Bravewolf Nim we should have our own show
4:10:11 Nim Bravewolf lol
4:10:29 Nim Bravewolf we need our own "wtf blog"
4:10:31 Bravewolf Nim haha
4:10:54 Bravewolf Nim "Stupid/amazing things from around the web and our heads"
4:11:00 Nim Bravewolf yes
4:11:02 Nim Bravewolf exactly
Monday, April 19, 2010
Jesus' swollen bastards
11:02:09 Bravewolf Nim: LOL http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/depiction-of-jesus-on-cross-stirs-up-controversy-at-oklahoma-church/19441036
11:02:45 Nim Bravewolf: oh I read that yesterday
11:02:54 Bravewolf Nim: the one I commented on :D
11:02:56 Nim Bravewolf: it was a big topic in my IRC atheism group
11:03:08 Bravewolf Nim: “Jesus' swollen belly looks like another swollen body part. “ LOL
11:03:16 Bravewolf Nim: I haven’t been on IRC in eons
11:03:42 Nim Bravewolf: that is actually a perfectly legitimate style of iconography though
11:03:48 Nim Bravewolf: I don't ht ink they should change it
11:04:20 Nim Bravewolf: maybe put a little line across to show his six pack
11:04:25 Bravewolf Nim: I know but I will still snicker in a juvenile manner.
11:04:36 Bravewolf Nim: http://afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147493408
11:04:50 Bravewolf Nim: linked from the first... wow. Aren’t you an asshole.
11:05:12 Nim Bravewolf: yes, I would too
11:06:07 Bravewolf Nim: I like how this person is claiming that marriage would solve the ills of the single, poverty stricken mother, but is promoting his agenda by focusing his pejoratives on the children.
11:06:23 Nim Bravewolf: so... you're young and some guy knocks you up abortion is a sin.. and
now they don't want you to get help either?
11:06:34 Bravewolf Nim: and then he gets to his real agenda: “It's time to communicate in policy and not just in words that in America, we expect you to save sex for marriage, to have children only within the marriage relationship, and that we will no longer force American taxpayers to fund the expenses of children they did not conceive and with whom they have no relationship and for whom they have no responsibility.”
11:06:52 Nim Bravewolf: " They are certain to grow up in an environment where they do not have the daily, meaningful and essential presence of a father."
11:07:03 Nim Bravewolf: uh yeah.. because all fathers are AWESOME
11:07:09 Nim Bravewolf: and they'll make your life great?
11:07:28 Bravewolf Nim: OH. OH. So children should be your *punishment* for out-of-wedlock sex because you can’t abort them but you can’t get any help for your situation either.
11:07:34 Nim Bravewolf: yeah
11:07:37 Bravewolf Nim: What a wonderful environment to grow up in.
11:07:39 Nim Bravewolf: way to make their lives worse..
11:07:50 Nim Bravewolf: next they'll claim that we should just eat them
11:08:11 Nim Bravewolf: "This year, taxpayers will cough up $300 billion to provide welfare to single moms,"
11:08:17 Nim Bravewolf: I highly doubt this number
11:08:28 Bravewolf Nim: Not only are you a punishment for your mother, you also apparently should be labelled with the term “bastard” so that other people can cut you out of their social groups, thus ensuring that the problem of single-parent poverty is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
11:08:37 Nim Bravewolf: yeah
11:08:55 Nim Bravewolf: and I love how he says that the US is overtaxed
11:09:13 Nim Bravewolf: the US is SO not overtaxed.. they're way down the line for taxes
11:11:16 Bravewolf Nim: I am all for reforming the welfare system so that people can’t abuse it. However, if you want to effect change, you have to give these people a way out and actually empower them to make their lives better - make working more attractive than welfare because they get more opportunities and their children have good childcare options.
11:11:37 Nim Bravewolf: you can't make it so that no one can abuse the system
11:11:55 Nim Bravewolf: because then people who actually need it will get cut out on the side of caution
11:12:05 Bravewolf Nim: I just don’t see this happening... you can’t tell someone to work if they have no place to put their kids.
11:12:09 Nim Bravewolf: yup
11:12:46 Nim Bravewolf: more sperm donor dads need to be forced to pay support
11:14:27 Bravewolf Nim: I agree that women who choose to have children should be evaluating what kind of life they can give a child. However, I don’t think that single parenthood is the root of all evil. He doesn’t mention what kind of help he thinks people who have lost a spouse should have.
11:14:50 Nim Bravewolf: yeah
11:14:52 Bravewolf Nim: what if you did everything right and things just didn’t work out?
11:15:00 Nim Bravewolf: and what about women in abusive relationships?
11:15:06 Nim Bravewolf: or ppl getting divorced
11:15:12 Bravewolf Nim: oh they should stay for the sake of the money- er, children.
11:16:32 Nim Bravewolf: hah yeah
11:18:58 Bravewolf Nim: so what if you have a couple of black eyes, a broken jaw and a few busted ribs every few months? The American people - the hard working two parent families (because no single parent works for a living - they all live on yachts collecting welfare) who pay their taxes depend on you to shut your mouth (you should - all those broken teeth don’t look good on a woman) and praise God for your home.
11:02:45 Nim Bravewolf: oh I read that yesterday
11:02:54 Bravewolf Nim: the one I commented on :D
11:02:56 Nim Bravewolf: it was a big topic in my IRC atheism group
11:03:08 Bravewolf Nim: “Jesus' swollen belly looks like another swollen body part. “ LOL
11:03:16 Bravewolf Nim: I haven’t been on IRC in eons
11:03:42 Nim Bravewolf: that is actually a perfectly legitimate style of iconography though
11:03:48 Nim Bravewolf: I don't ht ink they should change it
11:04:20 Nim Bravewolf: maybe put a little line across to show his six pack
11:04:25 Bravewolf Nim: I know but I will still snicker in a juvenile manner.
11:04:36 Bravewolf Nim: http://afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147493408
11:04:50 Bravewolf Nim: linked from the first... wow. Aren’t you an asshole.
11:05:12 Nim Bravewolf: yes, I would too
11:06:07 Bravewolf Nim: I like how this person is claiming that marriage would solve the ills of the single, poverty stricken mother, but is promoting his agenda by focusing his pejoratives on the children.
11:06:23 Nim Bravewolf: so... you're young and some guy knocks you up abortion is a sin.. and
now they don't want you to get help either?
11:06:34 Bravewolf Nim: and then he gets to his real agenda: “It's time to communicate in policy and not just in words that in America, we expect you to save sex for marriage, to have children only within the marriage relationship, and that we will no longer force American taxpayers to fund the expenses of children they did not conceive and with whom they have no relationship and for whom they have no responsibility.”
11:06:52 Nim Bravewolf: " They are certain to grow up in an environment where they do not have the daily, meaningful and essential presence of a father."
11:07:03 Nim Bravewolf: uh yeah.. because all fathers are AWESOME
11:07:09 Nim Bravewolf: and they'll make your life great?
11:07:28 Bravewolf Nim: OH. OH. So children should be your *punishment* for out-of-wedlock sex because you can’t abort them but you can’t get any help for your situation either.
11:07:34 Nim Bravewolf: yeah
11:07:37 Bravewolf Nim: What a wonderful environment to grow up in.
11:07:39 Nim Bravewolf: way to make their lives worse..
11:07:50 Nim Bravewolf: next they'll claim that we should just eat them
11:08:11 Nim Bravewolf: "This year, taxpayers will cough up $300 billion to provide welfare to single moms,"
11:08:17 Nim Bravewolf: I highly doubt this number
11:08:28 Bravewolf Nim: Not only are you a punishment for your mother, you also apparently should be labelled with the term “bastard” so that other people can cut you out of their social groups, thus ensuring that the problem of single-parent poverty is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
11:08:37 Nim Bravewolf: yeah
11:08:55 Nim Bravewolf: and I love how he says that the US is overtaxed
11:09:13 Nim Bravewolf: the US is SO not overtaxed.. they're way down the line for taxes
11:11:16 Bravewolf Nim: I am all for reforming the welfare system so that people can’t abuse it. However, if you want to effect change, you have to give these people a way out and actually empower them to make their lives better - make working more attractive than welfare because they get more opportunities and their children have good childcare options.
11:11:37 Nim Bravewolf: you can't make it so that no one can abuse the system
11:11:55 Nim Bravewolf: because then people who actually need it will get cut out on the side of caution
11:12:05 Bravewolf Nim: I just don’t see this happening... you can’t tell someone to work if they have no place to put their kids.
11:12:09 Nim Bravewolf: yup
11:12:46 Nim Bravewolf: more sperm donor dads need to be forced to pay support
11:14:27 Bravewolf Nim: I agree that women who choose to have children should be evaluating what kind of life they can give a child. However, I don’t think that single parenthood is the root of all evil. He doesn’t mention what kind of help he thinks people who have lost a spouse should have.
11:14:50 Nim Bravewolf: yeah
11:14:52 Bravewolf Nim: what if you did everything right and things just didn’t work out?
11:15:00 Nim Bravewolf: and what about women in abusive relationships?
11:15:06 Nim Bravewolf: or ppl getting divorced
11:15:12 Bravewolf Nim: oh they should stay for the sake of the money- er, children.
11:16:32 Nim Bravewolf: hah yeah
11:18:58 Bravewolf Nim: so what if you have a couple of black eyes, a broken jaw and a few busted ribs every few months? The American people - the hard working two parent families (because no single parent works for a living - they all live on yachts collecting welfare) who pay their taxes depend on you to shut your mouth (you should - all those broken teeth don’t look good on a woman) and praise God for your home.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Of Lesbians and Proms
By now most people are cognizant of the furor surrounding Constance McMillen's fight to be allowed to bring a same-sex date to her prom and wear a tuxedo at said prom. After it was ruled that not allowing her to have these things was a violation of civil rights and it was also confirmed that the school prom was going to be held, McMillen and her supporters found that only 7 people, including Constance, attended the "official" prom while her schoolmates partied at a private "prom" on the same night in a scene reminiscent of the experience of Carolyn King-Miller in 1965.
Now that their asshattery is forever enshrined in popular culture, the Itawamba Agricultural High School staff and parents have shown some signs of scrambling to explain how they really had the moral high ground. Apparently the moral high ground included excluding disabled students, groping and girl-on-girl tongue kissing (it's okay to engage in lesbian sex at IAHS if it's to turn on guys).
To IAHS, Constance McMillen was a troublemaker who just wanted attention. They seem to fail to understand that it was their going to extreme lengths to deny her the right to attend prom with her girlfriend and in a tuxedo that focused the international spotlight on them. If they had just handed her a couple of tickets, this would have been just another red-letter-day for the local limo service and nothing else.
Constance could be an all-around bitch. She could have just wanted attention. She could just be a glory-seeking whore. I'm sure that there are a metric ton of them in any small town you can dig up out of the glory of the American South - or anywhere else, for that matter. What the people involved with the IAHS hateprom scandal don't seem to realize is that Constance didn't train the spotlight on herself - THEY did.
It's the kind of ostracism and hate that only Jesus could love. Or was that the Pharisees? Or maybe they're taking this from some other part of the Bible. Anyway, all the people involved in the anti-lesbian campaign seem awfully religious... they're all good church going folk.
The Internet is a wonderful thing. Even after this has been forgotten by the majority, bits and pieces of it will still be floating around long after McMillen's classmates graduate from college. Their god forbid that any of them go for a public career like politics and acting. Every time they turn around, the "private party" of 2010 will be around to haunt them. And I hope it does.
One of the positive things, though is that other students have followed in Constance's footsteps and, amazingly, nothing bad happened.
Now that their asshattery is forever enshrined in popular culture, the Itawamba Agricultural High School staff and parents have shown some signs of scrambling to explain how they really had the moral high ground. Apparently the moral high ground included excluding disabled students, groping and girl-on-girl tongue kissing (it's okay to engage in lesbian sex at IAHS if it's to turn on guys).
To IAHS, Constance McMillen was a troublemaker who just wanted attention. They seem to fail to understand that it was their going to extreme lengths to deny her the right to attend prom with her girlfriend and in a tuxedo that focused the international spotlight on them. If they had just handed her a couple of tickets, this would have been just another red-letter-day for the local limo service and nothing else.
Constance could be an all-around bitch. She could have just wanted attention. She could just be a glory-seeking whore. I'm sure that there are a metric ton of them in any small town you can dig up out of the glory of the American South - or anywhere else, for that matter. What the people involved with the IAHS hateprom scandal don't seem to realize is that Constance didn't train the spotlight on herself - THEY did.
It's the kind of ostracism and hate that only Jesus could love. Or was that the Pharisees? Or maybe they're taking this from some other part of the Bible. Anyway, all the people involved in the anti-lesbian campaign seem awfully religious... they're all good church going folk.
The Internet is a wonderful thing. Even after this has been forgotten by the majority, bits and pieces of it will still be floating around long after McMillen's classmates graduate from college. Their god forbid that any of them go for a public career like politics and acting. Every time they turn around, the "private party" of 2010 will be around to haunt them. And I hope it does.
One of the positive things, though is that other students have followed in Constance's footsteps and, amazingly, nothing bad happened.
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