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I've never been so proud of my country
Obama has given me hope for my future, for our future. I don't think the next 4 years are going to be roses and sunshine, but I smell change on the horizon, and after 4 long years of doom, gloom, and cynicism, I'm given a reason to put on the roses colored glasses and smile for awhile.
and yet...
This needs a preface. I have very odd tastes in tv. I watch everything from The Girls Next Door (Playboy bunnies with too much time on there hands, which is a good indicator of too much on mine as well XD ) to Battlestar Galactica to Grey's Anatomy. But most of the time I get stuff of the tv I watch, which it is why it's ok that it usually doesn't reflect real life or only a part of it to analysis and think over.
It's ok...until it isn't. Grey's used to be a guilty pleasure that grew on me. And I was jump for joy fangirl excited when my favorite actress from BSG, Mary McDonnell, was going to be "guest starring" on Grey's. But she isn't just guest starring. She's replacing one member of the only lesbian couple on prime time television.
This comes on the heels of the downside of the election. California possibly retroactively banning gay marriage, Arkansas not allowing gay couples to adopt and all the other anti-gay bills passed throughout this country. We are still here, and still so full of hate as a people that it sickens me to the core.
I'm at a loss. And I'm tired. I'm tired of using guarded language every time I speak about my future partner, because I'm a true bisexual and a male soul mate is just as possible for me as a female. I'm tired of feeling like a second rate citizen and an outcast(sometimes even within the gay community). This is who I am. This is what I believe of myself. And if ignorant, hateful, fundamentalists can marry and have children, I believe as a person, as a fellow human being I should also be allowed that right.
Normally I would put this under a cut, but it is far too important to be passed over.
Now I'm going fume in a corner...
Obama has given me hope for my future, for our future. I don't think the next 4 years are going to be roses and sunshine, but I smell change on the horizon, and after 4 long years of doom, gloom, and cynicism, I'm given a reason to put on the roses colored glasses and smile for awhile.
and yet...
This needs a preface. I have very odd tastes in tv. I watch everything from The Girls Next Door (Playboy bunnies with too much time on there hands, which is a good indicator of too much on mine as well XD ) to Battlestar Galactica to Grey's Anatomy. But most of the time I get stuff of the tv I watch, which it is why it's ok that it usually doesn't reflect real life or only a part of it to analysis and think over.
It's ok...until it isn't. Grey's used to be a guilty pleasure that grew on me. And I was jump for joy fangirl excited when my favorite actress from BSG, Mary McDonnell, was going to be "guest starring" on Grey's. But she isn't just guest starring. She's replacing one member of the only lesbian couple on prime time television.
This comes on the heels of the downside of the election. California possibly retroactively banning gay marriage, Arkansas not allowing gay couples to adopt and all the other anti-gay bills passed throughout this country. We are still here, and still so full of hate as a people that it sickens me to the core.
I'm at a loss. And I'm tired. I'm tired of using guarded language every time I speak about my future partner, because I'm a true bisexual and a male soul mate is just as possible for me as a female. I'm tired of feeling like a second rate citizen and an outcast(sometimes even within the gay community). This is who I am. This is what I believe of myself. And if ignorant, hateful, fundamentalists can marry and have children, I believe as a person, as a fellow human being I should also be allowed that right.
Normally I would put this under a cut, but it is far too important to be passed over.
Now I'm going fume in a corner...