sundries

[rm]

Patty and I have not been having the best luck this week with feeling well, tolerating the heat, etc. But the heat has broken and today will be different. I'm working early to finish early and yesterday pretty much taxed me out on the Internet for the week, I think. So y'all get to talk amongst yourselves while we try to be productive and have quality time before we leave on our respective trips.

Did I really see an ad on my way to my morning tasks for a film called: Dogs and Cats: The Revenge of Kitty Galore????!?!?!? Yes, apparently I did. (Warning for Patty: contains creepy hairless cat).

A new high school and some oysters may be the key to saving New York's waterways.

Italy is fighting in European court a ban on crucifixes in its classrooms.

Soon same-sex partners will be eligible for bereavement leave in NYS. How depressing is it that there needs to be a law or shit won't happen?

Meanwhile, this made me cry in a good way. Repentance and reconciliation at Pride and probably not in the way you'd expect. via pecunium.

Apparently, a doctor is treating pregnant women in Florida with hormones to prevent the possibility that their daughters with be lesbian or bisexual and/or display habits and career interests that are deemed too masculine.

In case you missed that, let me say this again: pregnant women are being treated with experimental drugs to prevent birth defects such as homosexuality and non-traditional gender roles.

I feel unsafe. The steps from the desire to prevent to the desire to eradicate what's already here are very small.

As Dan Savage notes: "Gay people have been stressing out about a day arriving when scientists developed treatments to prevent homosexuality ... well, here we are—the day appears to have arrived. Now what are we going to do about it?"

Comments

[thought-ribbons.livejournal.com]

ok that's pretty screwed up. Giving your baby "hormones" so they won't be lesbian/bisexual/whatever... It's not even hormones it's a steroid!! And it's highly risky to administer this drug as it could cause untold HARM to the fetus... It's been know to affect children in several ways including growth retardation!

God and the "results" of this experiment won't be known for 18 odd years... (because what are you going to do ask a 3 year old if they're homosexual or not?) ha!! AND! it's Estmated that only 1/3 of women who identify themselves as Lesbian/Bisexual have been potentially exposed to prenatal androgen. So you could go through a highly risky treatment that could HARM your baby, and she could still be Lesbian/Bisexual.

Just doesn't seem like it will be main stream anytime soon/ever