The way of the world...
...sometimes blows beyond my wildest expectations.
Just to let you know, faithful reader, I'm not going to launch into a whiney rant about how much my life sucks right now. It doesn't. Don't get me wrong, I'm feeling a little lonely right now but that's kinda par for the course and it's not a big "crying in my beer" sorta thing, so bear with me.
It's just that only now, I'm reading about the status of gays and lesbians in Iran and it's appalling. And not only is their treatment of these people appalling, I'm frankly outraged at my own ignorance on the subject. Now, I know that the c0ck-sucking doesn't give me automatic insight into the plight of homos around the world but for fuck's sake, I just wish I'd been more aware of some of the complexities of gay life around the world. Sometimes I think I live in my head too much and don't get out there in the world and make some effort to improve my life and the lives of others. This is just one small case of something that I'd love to have know about because it profoundly pisses me off.
I remember learning in school in 1979 about the Ayatollah Khomeini taking power and not knowing what that meant. I also remember considering asking questions and not doing it. So, I really want to say that it's this almost apathetic self-enforced ignorance that galls me.
That aside, I was reading about a movie entitled Be Like Others that documents sex change surgeries in Iran. It seems that many gay men are getting sex changes in order to avoid persecution there. That makes me kinda sad and sick at the same time. This from a country that had gotten to the point where same-sex marriage was nearly allowed right before the Ayatollah struck. BAH!
And what's up with people today? Is Mercury retrograde or something? It seems like nobody's fucking listening to me today.
The funny thing is that as I write this I know exactly how I'd respond to a friend's journal if they said the exact same thing: "Huh? Did you say something?" But then again, I'm an @sshole.
J
Just to let you know, faithful reader, I'm not going to launch into a whiney rant about how much my life sucks right now. It doesn't. Don't get me wrong, I'm feeling a little lonely right now but that's kinda par for the course and it's not a big "crying in my beer" sorta thing, so bear with me.
It's just that only now, I'm reading about the status of gays and lesbians in Iran and it's appalling. And not only is their treatment of these people appalling, I'm frankly outraged at my own ignorance on the subject. Now, I know that the c0ck-sucking doesn't give me automatic insight into the plight of homos around the world but for fuck's sake, I just wish I'd been more aware of some of the complexities of gay life around the world. Sometimes I think I live in my head too much and don't get out there in the world and make some effort to improve my life and the lives of others. This is just one small case of something that I'd love to have know about because it profoundly pisses me off.
I remember learning in school in 1979 about the Ayatollah Khomeini taking power and not knowing what that meant. I also remember considering asking questions and not doing it. So, I really want to say that it's this almost apathetic self-enforced ignorance that galls me.
That aside, I was reading about a movie entitled Be Like Others that documents sex change surgeries in Iran. It seems that many gay men are getting sex changes in order to avoid persecution there. That makes me kinda sad and sick at the same time. This from a country that had gotten to the point where same-sex marriage was nearly allowed right before the Ayatollah struck. BAH!
And what's up with people today? Is Mercury retrograde or something? It seems like nobody's fucking listening to me today.
The funny thing is that as I write this I know exactly how I'd respond to a friend's journal if they said the exact same thing: "Huh? Did you say something?" But then again, I'm an @sshole.
J