We're on the abortion unit of my philosophy class. And it is filled with fail, as expected ( Read more... )

Wow, Newsweek. Way to be five months late, and then write a terrible article about it.

I'm getting really sick of people labeling the murder of Lawrence King as only an anti-gay hate crime. It wasn't just anti-gay, it was also anti-gender nonconformity. Lawrence King was murdered for his gender expression AND his sexual orientation. The Newsweek ( Read more... )

If you feel the need to use "I have gay friends" as evidence for your tolerance and greatness, you are actually proving that you are an asshole, and a bigot to boot. Obviously, it never occurred to you that gay people do not want to be waved around like fucking trophies for you to display in your Diversity™ Showroom to all your straight friends. We ( Read more... )

Today I'm going to post about what I like to call political apathy. Mostly because it came up in Civics yesterday and today, and because it does apply, in part, to LGBT issues. And, I'm contemplating writing an OP/ED to send in to our school's newspaper ( Read more... )

Today in Civics the Jena Six were brought up yet again (so that the dumb white kids in the class could sympathize with teh poor, opressed white people in Jena, I guess), this time in the form of Jena District Attorney Reed Walters writing a piece for the New York Times OP/ED section. How a racist, backwater sleazebag like him got into the New York ( Read more... )

Yesterday in my presidential election CR, we were split into small groups to talk about the "history" of our political values. We were getting into really good discussions, and I managed to mention that, on the topic of stupid things that he's said, Bill Richardson said at the HRC Logo debates that he thought homosexuality is a choice ( Read more... )

First shred of pro-life argument for several months.Aaaah, nothing like the stench of Lifer Logic and Ignorant Analogies to wake me up in the afternoon ( Read more... )

Posts like these make me think back to my days in 2005 when I was a carefree, easy-going type pro-choicer. You know, before I got bitter and blunt and angry. Mostly it's because of all the surprise expressed in there. They probably thought that the lifers on Gaia were above being against comprehensive sex ed and acting like rape is as trivial as ( Read more... )

Because apparently, one person's inability to scroll past some posts means that we should all shut up.

Gotta love A_F. Such a masochistic community. I wouldn't have known about the short (or the two coming soon) if it weren't for A_F, but at the same time I would be living a less wank- and stupid-filled life if it weren't on my f-list.