this isn’t the Point

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/08/30/how-mccain-chose-palin/

refers me.
“automatically generated”
but still.
i show up on fox news???  as opposed to, oh, say I Blame the Patriarchy, Feministing, Feminist Philosophers, the Curvature, etc.  maybe they don’t know i’m not a fox news kind of gal.

on an unrelated note, another dip into look both ways: bisexual politics by jennifer baumgarnder.

jennifer quotes second-wave feminist author naomi weisstein:
“The lesbian conversion in the women’s liberation movement is one of the most stunning examples of the power of a collective, social movement to challenge our deepest notion of who we think we are and what we believe we can do.  This chapter of our history should never be lost because it provides profound hope in our ability, through collective action, to become what we want to become, and to mold our human society in ways that we would believe unthinkable beore the transformation.”

“profound hope” is right!
all this book keeps telling me is: you are not alone, you are not broken or odd, you are not irrational when it comes to these things you feel, things can change, you can change, and it’s all okay.  it’s ALL okay.

i’m not sure what i wanted to say about that quote, really.  i guess i just wanted to throw it out there.
phrases like “a cord of three strands is not quickly broken,” and “strength in numbers” are floating in my head.

“Parents don’t want their children in grade school to be told that the homosexual lifestyle is fine, but that’s already happening,” said Ritchie. “It’s part of the homosexual movement’s concerted effort to force the sexual revolution into the mainstream culture and banish God and His law from the public square.”

the sexual revolutions are said and done.
mainstream culture has sickening amounts of Straight sex; that’s less offensive than any amount of gay sex?  i guess, actually, to straight white males.
and, yes, my goal as a 20-year old queer girl from the buckle of the bible belt is to banish the god of the universe.  that’s it.  sums me up in one sentence.

how long will people keep this up?
i know controversy is progress — the more people voice their misguided, uninformed, bigoted opinions, the move oppurtunity we have to hopefully, IDEALLY engage in enlightening conversation, where both parties can exchange ideas and at least, agree to disagree.  not all people who holds views at least similar to that man’s are all of those things, misguided, uninformed, or bigoted; i know very well-educated people who’ve studied and who have reached a different conclusion than i, but their attitudes are loving, accepting, with no attitude that tries to communicated i’m perverted and messed up, but rather an attitude of compassion and kindness and they care that i am doing something in my life that they see as destructive.  to them, homosexuality and any variation thereof isn’t the sin of sins, it’s just something to work through and heal from and learn from.
which is fine.
but when i start getting told i’m manipulating and converting and perverting children… well, that’s wrong.  point, blank, period.