I'm Not So Gay About This Agenda
Apr. 7th, 2010 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatI'm most likely not doing a video game post this week, unless I think of something while I'm at work. I've been known (well, known by myself, anyway) to plan out posts pretty much word for word while working, although of course they don't come out exactly the same when I actually write them. The Mushroom Guru posts were fun, but I've largely run out of ideas, and I can only recall receiving two comments on them anyway. Am I using the wrong forum, or were they just not funny? Either is possible, but it's difficult to tell when no one leaves feedback. And when I make comments like that, it's pretty much always people who comment on other posts anyway who leave a reply like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I've been busy recently." While I definitely appreciate your replies, I'm really not talking to you, but to anyone reading this who NEVER comments. Then again, maybe there aren't any people in that category. I don't know. While I'll probably keep using LiveJournal for posts about my life, is there a better place for my creative experiments and observations on religion and mythology? And if so, would it be possible for me to an RSS feed on LJ, so people who DO like this format would be able to read them without going somewhere else? I feel like I've asked these same basic questions many times, and while I've gotten answers, they've never really been enough to go on. Really, that's mostly my fault, though. I'm just not sure where to get started.
Anyway, I originally wasn't going to make a post at all today, but then I came across this article. Aren't you glad that ridiculous bigotry is still alive and well? Because I'm not, but it looks like someone must be.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje had told me earlier about Constance McMillen not being able to bring her girlfriend to her prom, and how when the ACLU got involved, the school just canceled the prom entirely. Well, they apparently settled the issue by holding a small event for Constance and her date that only four other people attended, while other students attended a separate prom. I wondered for a minute why anyone would have attended the separate prom knowing the prejudice that went into the decision, but then I remembered that we're talking about high school students here. The article touches on how cruel an environment high school is for anyone who's different in pretty much any way, and how the schools rarely do anything to prevent this. In fact, in this case, we have the school coming right out and saying, "Hooray for homophobia!" Doesn't it figure that this school would be in Mississippi, and have "agricultural" in its name? Does a state that's stereotyped so much by the rest of the country really want to perpetuate the stereotypes? Come on, if you're portrayed as marrying your first cousins and having five kids by the time you're sixteen, it's probably not a good idea to marginalize anyone else for their sexual identity. Obviously the redneck stereotypes aren't true for most people either, but this school and its students certainly aren't helping matters. Oh, and of course there are also bigots leaving comments on the article, yakking about the "gay agenda." First of all, this is a phrase that you obviously took from someone else, meaning you're just parroting another person's thoughts. And really, if you want to talk about agendas, which is more of one? Wanting to have the same civil rights as everyone else, or working hard to overturn that pesky separation of church and state?
Anyway, I originally wasn't going to make a post at all today, but then I came across this article. Aren't you glad that ridiculous bigotry is still alive and well? Because I'm not, but it looks like someone must be.
bethje had told me earlier about Constance McMillen not being able to bring her girlfriend to her prom, and how when the ACLU got involved, the school just canceled the prom entirely. Well, they apparently settled the issue by holding a small event for Constance and her date that only four other people attended, while other students attended a separate prom. I wondered for a minute why anyone would have attended the separate prom knowing the prejudice that went into the decision, but then I remembered that we're talking about high school students here. The article touches on how cruel an environment high school is for anyone who's different in pretty much any way, and how the schools rarely do anything to prevent this. In fact, in this case, we have the school coming right out and saying, "Hooray for homophobia!" Doesn't it figure that this school would be in Mississippi, and have "agricultural" in its name? Does a state that's stereotyped so much by the rest of the country really want to perpetuate the stereotypes? Come on, if you're portrayed as marrying your first cousins and having five kids by the time you're sixteen, it's probably not a good idea to marginalize anyone else for their sexual identity. Obviously the redneck stereotypes aren't true for most people either, but this school and its students certainly aren't helping matters. Oh, and of course there are also bigots leaving comments on the article, yakking about the "gay agenda." First of all, this is a phrase that you obviously took from someone else, meaning you're just parroting another person's thoughts. And really, if you want to talk about agendas, which is more of one? Wanting to have the same civil rights as everyone else, or working hard to overturn that pesky separation of church and state?
