argh!

[rm]

Dear Parents,

I get that you get that I am with Patty and that you really like the chocolates her parents sent you for the holidays.

But, like, do you get that that means I'm gay?

And that I'd really, really, really, like to spend Christmas Eve doing something else other than listening to a CNN presidential debate on faith which is really just code for a long discussion on "Do Homosexuals Have Rights?"

*twitch*

*twitch*

*twitch*

Oh, hey, it's a full moon. Well, that's making a lot more sense now.

Comments

[don-negro.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting in Texas watching a lot of similar situations play out, and my current theory is that most people seem to think that female homosexuality is mutable, and above all reversible. (I know this is not a new insight, but it's always interesting to see it in action...)

Out here, boys who like boys are given the boot pretty quick, whereas girls who like girls are ignored and allowed to go about their business.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

boys who like boys are given the boot pretty quick, whereas girls who like girls are ignored and allowed to go about their business.

Isn't that odd? I tried to figure that one out a long time ago, and I just can't get my head wrapped around it. I'm sure there's some reason floating out there in the magic hat of excuses, and I can't wait to hear it.

[weirdquark]

I had a job microfilming books a while back and one of the books was a medical text from 190- something or other. In the list of illustrations it gave the caption "picture of a pervert" which, when I looked it up, was of a guy in drag. It went on to discuss male homosexuality and how gay men are all effeminate and this is why they like to wear women's clothing and how it was a perversion and so on, and then it mentioned that sometimes women also dress in drag and like other women but this doesn't actually happen.

I really enjoyed all of the articles about how the institution of marriage was going to be destroyed if women went to college or had the right to vote though. I was processing those at the same time that same-sex marriage was being legalized in Massachusetts and the timing was just superb. The more things change...

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Similar memory ... I was reading a book that was some type of scientific study or another and it had charts and graphs showing percentages and so on. They used pictures to illustrate different alignments ... people in beds. One shows a woman and man in a bed, another 2 men, another 2 women , and then " Other " which showed a woman in med with a dog. I was amused.

[dipping_sauce]

Oh, hey, it's a full moon.

Ah, that explains yesterday.

[sethg]

lucretia_borgia: "I'd pay good money to see one of those guys explain to Mitt why he's not really a Christian."

[lilerthkwake.livejournal.com]

Oh that would be AWESOME. Because you know that the Episcobapticostals believe he isn't.

Like a scene from a political lesbian movie

[abbismom.livejournal.com]

Oi vay! Reminds me of the time I went to an ob/gyn in Houston to figure out why I wasn't having periods and the nurse said, "well, are you sexually active?" and I said, "yes." And she said, with a knowing smug look, "well, don't you think that might mean you're pregnant?" And I said, "not if I'm only having sex with girls." And she looked like I just told her that her mother had died and backed out of the room, leaving me with a radio blaring out a Christian talk show about how homosexuality is corrupting our youth.

Good times, good times.

Re: Like a scene from a political lesbian movie

[ithinkitisayit.livejournal.com]

OMG, that story is chock-ful of win!

[lilerthkwake.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOLOL.

I did not speak of it in my journal, but my mother's fundie values caused a good deal of PRE-Christmas drama this year. AAAAAAAAAH stop it!

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

My parents and I have kind of just agreed not to talk about such things. Politics has largely become a subject of non-discussion. They invite my girlfriend to all major family functions, though, and get her Christmas and birthday presents, so I suppose that's *something*.