On the election of Senator Brown

[sidbyrd]

I was briefly chatting with someone about Massachusetts electing their new Republican Senator Brown and just couldn't squeeze it into a tweet. Time for a post on the old macro-blog.I'm insured already-broad healthcare coverage is abstractly important, but it just can't have the same emotional impact to me as Brown's anti-gay position. Equal rights

Comments

[cowboyzydeco]

This is pretty much what LJ is for, isn't it? Post whatever the heck you feel like. Free therapy, if nothing else. You ought to point a bit.ly link here from the Twitter account - worth reading, unless you have cross-platform privacy concerns.

And yeah, I think the country has a few (hundred) more important issues to be concerned about than who's doing what to which consenting adult, and whether they have an approved combination of interlocking parts. FWIW, I'm pissed off on your behalf.

[sidbyrd]

Hmm, you know, I do feel better. Venting FTW.

[cowboyzydeco]

And, seriously, these kinds of posts are not wasted effort, even if only because it's not a direction many people normally think. I'm a pretty good example. I'm a reasonably educated, middle-class, middle-aged, heterosexual, white, Protestant male. The entirety of American society is pretty much geared for my benefit and convenience. (Okay, I'm physically unattractive, and am not married with kids, so that's not wholly true.) I'm infuriated by social inequity, but often in substantially academic terms. It's good and necessary that I be periodically reminded that there is a close, personal face to these issues.

Well. That came out a little more sterile than I intended, but you get the idea.

[sidbyrd]

Two things.

1) I considered referencing/comparing other common job discriminations including physical attractiveness, but I decided it would distract from the main thing I was saying. Anyway, someone can lack the stereotypical tanning-at-the-beach-in-a-speedo kind of jock hotness but still be far from ugly. I guess there are different sub-categories of attractiveness, the elaboration of which would support another entire post. Which is why I didn't go there.

2) American society is geared toward the reasonably well-educated? Stop it; you're making me giggle.