I feel a deep sense of confidence and satisfaction, that my premonition when everyone was grieving over Prop 8 is holding true. I know setbacks suck, and they're tangibly affecting real people right now, but...
"The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." - Kosh, Babylon 5
Precise quote has a word I missed (I just looked it up for your precision-quoting pleasure): "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Even the expression "I come from a long line of Southern Crackers" is permanently excised from my vocabulary, externally and internally. You must always make this rebukes known to me. It's important.
Well, people can describe themselves as they want, regardless of what I think of it. And I think there's are huge differences between using a historical slur for empowerment ("queer") in self-describing and using it for shock value and using it as a historical slur for the purpose of aggrandizing a belief in a lack of self-worth.
Honestly, the problem with what irked me is that when we insist on referring to the middle of the country as backwards, it just encourages the middle of the country to dismiss anything the coasts have to say and it doesn't help causes like gay marriage or abortion rights.
More hope for the world, and perhaps eventually for a discussion that is a bit less about assimilation and a lot more about respect, acceptance and true openness of mind and frame.
I was so despondent after the whole Prop 8 debacle, I begged Sandy to stop asking me (to marry her, that is) because I was certain that it would never ever happen. But Iowa! In the buckle of the Bible Belt! It's almost too much for my little heart to take.
I can only hope that as we slowly break down the walls that cage us in, we don't get hurt in the fallout. While that sounds fatalistic, I have had my dreams of getting married dashed more than once and I don't know that I could last as long as Del and Phyllis did without going postal or the like.
Thank you so very much for conveying such wonderful, hopeful news!
Just finished reading the actual ruling. I appreciate it and want to throw it in the faces of people who were crying in sadness, force them to face their bigotry.
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I feel a deep sense of confidence and satisfaction, that my premonition when everyone was grieving over Prop 8 is holding true. I know setbacks suck, and they're tangibly affecting real people right now, but...
"The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." - Kosh, Babylon 5
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I need a pedantry icon.
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The difference between geeky and pedantic is not so great, no?
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You must always make this rebukes known to me. It's important.
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Honestly, the problem with what irked me is that when we insist on referring to the middle of the country as backwards, it just encourages the middle of the country to dismiss anything the coasts have to say and it doesn't help causes like gay marriage or abortion rights.
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I was so despondent after the whole Prop 8 debacle, I begged Sandy to stop asking me (to marry her, that is) because I was certain that it would never ever happen. But Iowa! In the buckle of the Bible Belt! It's almost too much for my little heart to take.
I can only hope that as we slowly break down the walls that cage us in, we don't get hurt in the fallout. While that sounds fatalistic, I have had my dreams of getting married dashed more than once and I don't know that I could last as long as Del and Phyllis did without going postal or the like.
Thank you so very much for conveying such wonderful, hopeful news!
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also, I think M and I might need a road trip.
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