Very good point.

Cause for celebration! All we have to do now is to show him that gays are starry-eyed too!

(Since gayness is not a genetic trait, while starry-eyedness undoubtedly is, this should not prove to be difficult.)

I’d argue that all humans are born with an empathy gene, it’s just that younguns are then subject to different indoctrination that either suppresses the tendency (boys) or encourages the tendency (girls.) A huge generalisation I know but as someone who has tried to raise a son to be empathetic all I can say is it’s exhausting to continually oppose the idea that boys are inherently not empathetic. They can be, we just have to stop ‘beating’ it out of them. IBTP.

Now, the subject of marriage in any context is mostly a big blah to me (although naturally I am in favor of anyone who wants to participate to, um, participate, and mazel tov). But prior to Prop 8, I’d always thought it was fun to see a wedding party emerging from the church on a Saturday afternoon. Sometimes I’d plop myself down on the library steps just to watch.

So I was surprised at the rush of sadness and pain I felt the second I saw that day’s wedding party. I mean, I knew from the get-go that the pain had nothing to do with wishing these folks ill. But for folks who want to get married, my state had just said, “No, no, you don’t get your happy day. Well, okay, you can make something up in your yard or whatever, but because we won’t separate civil marriage from religious marriage, you are forbidden to make those church steps all gross and horrible with your gay happiness. Happiness is a finite quantity, and you gay folks can’t poach ours, ’cause then there won’t be enough left or something. Ewww, We hate you all, we hate ourselves, please stop making us think about stuff.”

Yeah, I was sad. Who could possibly be against more and more happy celebrations? Not caterers or planners or resort owners or party rental places or, oh yeah, people in love.

I don’t mean to preach, and y’all shouldn’t have to be my choir. But Prop 8: I am so not over it.

PS: This fear of being hit on by gays? Jeebus frikkin Christ. They imagine a nightmare in which they are not allowed to say “Oh, thanks but no thanks” because they don’t believe any woman should really truly have the agency to say “Thanks but no thanks” to them. This really shakes the patriarchy to its core, doesn’t it. Dominion over all the creatures of the earth, blah blah blah, women being among those creatures. I am shutting up now.

What’s wrong with comparing children to dogs? It’s actually a compliment to the children.

Without a conscious thought in their heads, they still know that what they think of sex – men raping women and making them love it against their will – will become gays raping men and making them love it against their will.

The core of male resistance to gay sex is the fervent and self-justifying belief that women love to be raped and degraded and that a man could easily be forced to love it, too.

And gorgeous snake, Twisty. Almost makes up for all the scorpions and centipedes you got down your way.