My favorite quotes of privilege for the day (gay marriage)
And I will not include the sincere explanations of how this will set gay rights back for generations by way of backlash, like durrr.
One woman, in a thread titled “Raise a glass to the California Supreme Court!” came in just to say;
I hate to be the party pooper here, but I wonder when the first Legally married Homosexual couple will drag us though the drama of Divorce Court and the issues of custody (Assuming it has not already happened)
Upon being asked; surely you can’t expect that gays, who are people too with feelings just like everyone else’s, should be inhumanly perfect?(the “people with feelings too” is her own quote from earlier) she offered this gem;
I had expected them to take more “Pride”, holding it in high esteem, in it as it is supposed to be something they have been fighting for, this “Holy Grail” sort to speak, you know. ..
But sadly the damage done to the ideal will be the most. I mean Homosexuals have been putting out the idea that they should be allowed marriage because they are a loving committed people to one partner and should be allowed to make that commitment legal.
It is about putting on a show and proving a point.
I guess after the ball is dropped, people are people….
I mean I would imagine that the Heterosexuals who have been enjoying the right to legal unions for the past several hundred years (And even developed the concept) would eventually take it for granted, rather amazed it took this long to tell the truth.
It is not like they have been striving and suffering for this “right” and this chase to filly prove themselves as loving, loyal, and affectionate people who are committed to each other.
Not like Divorce is a big thing to heterosexuals as a whole these days so I expect them to not take it as a “Big Thing” that they could not make their marriage work.
I just figured that Homosexuals, well, it would considered a “Big Thing” if you know what I mean. This is something precious and important. I would have guess that they at least have the divorce rate of early heterosexual couples, in the low single % range. (I told her that one couple in a particular group of twenty, had broken up)
Here is another conversation. I’ve been invited to two marriages– they are both happening on the same day!
another person (not the same ignoramus) said;
Get them to have a dual ceremony.
This was a serious suggestion, as a possible solution to let you attend both ceremonies. I’m explaining this, as there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding going on in this thread.
Like the mis-assumption that every same-sex couple wants to be part of a mass wedding? Or that every same sex couple knows every other?
Oh.my.wow.
yep, your icon says it all.
*Stella puts the baseball bat down. Carefully.*
Why…just…why do we even have to use the word “gay”? Why can one not simply be a man who happens to respond to men, or a woman who responds to women?
Homosexual, heterosexual. It’s just not any different. Period. Same sex couples and individuals have the same loyalties, feelings, needs, wants, dynamics, pain, joy, responses, humor, compassion, trials, tribulations as any other humans.
Why is this even a fucking issue in this day and age?
I do not get this, that people are so devoid of empathy, as to think “Homosexuals” (nice caps, Lady. Reminds me of Coloreds, Reds and Japs. Way to marginalize, Whore) are somehow evolutionarily divergent from themselves- a distinction requiring CAPITALIZATION.
More so, even if people are too morally bankrupt and misguided to have logical empathy- don’t they even have the wherewithal to respond to the most primal and selfish of instincts, self preservation?!
Does it truly elude them, that this little hate-dance has a historical precedent, and that in twenty years, history’s 20/20 hindsight is going to immortalize all the Good People who oppose “the Gays” as analogous to the “Good People” who barred the doors of schools and churches from blacks?
…condemned to repeat it, indeed.
Why ask why?
Bigotry is its own reward.
This woman got the message yesterday, though– not an apology per se, but a “point noted” at least. Her capitalisation was an attempt to be respectful. A perfect illustration of privilege– she never noticed how disrespectful her statements were. She used nice polite language all the way through, so whyyyy was I being so mean to her?
Over on Lit, the legal crowd is having a field day with the historic precedents etc. And I was crowned AH Prom King…
Pfft. Gays marry,, gays divorce, just like other people. I think MA already had the first gay divorce (also the name of an old play).
As for backlash… the progress to equality is always worth the backlash. Black people are better off now than in 1950, even if they do have some jerks assume they are affirmative action hires. Women are better off now than they were when they were dying in childbirth frquently.
“Utterly deceptive twaddlespeak!”
(Just had to pop in and say that.)