Subduction Zone
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In the future you may have a bunch of people shouting "I am Cornholio" on Pride Day. Just as many people without a drop of Irish blood say "kiss me I'm Irish". Those claims are not meant to be taken seriously.
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On the showing of the “pride flag, and appropriate activism.
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There's a little brunch place - the Hartland Diner - that has a BLM flag on the left side of its entrance and a ProChoice flag on right. My wife and I, along with a son, a daughter-in-law, two granddaughters, and a friend, stopped there at the beginning of our drive back to the Midwest. Their breakfasts are outstanding!
The question is not who, but how. Those things are determined by whether the display answers a historical or valid current supposition of what we call homophobia.
anna.
colors your eyes with what's not there
No, the question is who.
Subduction Zone
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Me. And only me. Wieners on buns. No condiments.
I'm not really here for people deciding whether my displays are valid.
Anybody else agree with this?
I think that the goal at this point in time is not inclusivity…that is now protected by law. It is inconsequentiality and normalization, which goals are not helped by continuing to shout “we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!”, as they did in the days of the Stonewall riots. They are helped by demanding inclusivity without any additional hoopla.
The absence of high quality mustard is shameful.
Subduction Zone
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I know, and the next thing that you know being of a race different than being white will be considered "normal" too. The never of some people!
Subduction Zone
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If you have a donkey it will probably be kicked.
Normalization happens naturally, as people in society get used to ****…grow accustomed to new ideas, unless, of course, that process is continually subverted by particularizing and calling attention.
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And who elected you to decide what the goals should be and how to achieve them?
Frankly I don’t think you understand the day and age you are living in. We are not as far from Stonewall as you seem to think, and there are plenty trying very hard to take us backwards.
No, this is not the time to be quiet. This is the time to continue to shout.
Subduction Zone
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It seemed that you were opposing normalization of homosexuality. Maybe I was wrong.
I don’t see this at all. Maybe things are different elsewhere…
No, what I am saying is that continuing particularization seems the enemy of normalization.
Then open your eyes and keep them open. The silence you seek will only lull you to sleep. Stay woke.
There are absolutely still metric tons of people who will only include LGBT so long as they stay quiet about it. Who scorn gay people holding hands, who challenge women who don't look to their standards of feminine in bathrooms, who won't see a gay doctor if they're straight for the pure and simple reason that they think gay men are a threat. Surface level acceptance is not what we should be going for, and naturalization happens from exposure, not silence.
That is worthy of repeating.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
'tis about as valid as other comments about fascists these days.Interesting equivalency ...
I am awake and (generally…if I had my morning coffee) alert. I simply do not see it. I know that in many cultures of other parts of the world, LGBT is still anathema, but I don’t see it here very much, and what we do here is likely to have very little effect in sub-Saharan Africa or in the Muslim world.