Fire is still hot.
RantI support free speech pretty enthusiastically - I mean, I started this site and all, didn't I? But sometimes, such delightful organizations as PFLAG and PFOX make me angrier than when computer errors eat what I write.
The cutest part about the most recent propaganda flier is the disclaimer - "MCPS does not endorse this please don't sue!" - which nonetheless begs the question "Why, then, does the administration hand these out in homeroom?" It certainly feels like an endorsement. We never get much propaganda from anywhere else except pro-not-gay organizations.
That part of the message is very important: PFOX is not anti-gay; PFOX is pro-ex-gay. PFOX supports the poor, disenfranchised ex-gays who are shunned by the gay community (and, as an afterthought, gays, because they deserve to be loved and possibly offered therapy). Sexuality is clearly a conscious choice with not other defining factors to it, and "people can change."
A man - a random example - wants to stop being gay. He is uncomfortable with the 'gay lifestyle' (which is obligatory and not at all an artificial social type) and with the contradiction between his faith and the way his gonads lunge. What does he do? He makes efforts to 'embrace his heterosexual potential' and 'become more straight.' He doesn't want to gay community to know it for fear of repercussion, but he desperately wants to be an ex-gay.
Semi-prominent gays have, on occasion, been Shocked and Appalled to find that the news of their new-found heterosexuality doesn't sit well with the masses. It's very hard to not say, "Well, duh." When one "chooses" to associate as anything - prominently, proudly - and then suddenly leap to the other side of the debate, they are seriously deluding themselves if they do not expect tomatoes to be thrown. Your flip-flopping has little to do with sexuality, Anne Rice, but here's looking at you anyway.
The great whine of PFOX is that ex-gays aren't accepted into LGBT communities, which is probably my final grievance. When someone chooses to associate as 'ex-gay' - not straight; ex-gay - they are making a statement about what they are - that is, no longer what I should never have been. It's vaguely condescending and it practically goes out on its own looking for trouble, and the surprise some people have at finding that they are not loved by the people they shun is astounding.
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you gots anything for the animation theme?
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*runs around in mad panic*
click to see the insane one pokemon per day challenge: [link]
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Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb and actually pays its minions minimum wage.
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O-O
*runs around in mad panic*
click to see the insane one pokemon per day challenge: [link]
That's good. That's very good. I have much ignored work to finish before the weekend, you see. I have a few measures down for the theme, and shall continue when I no longer have to BS literary analysis of short stories which only occasionally grab my attention.
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Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb and actually pays its minions minimum wage.
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>.>
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>.<
O-O
*runs around in mad panic*
click to see the insane one pokemon per day challenge: [link]
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Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb and actually pays its minions minimum wage.
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>.>
<.<
>.<
O-O
*runs around in mad panic*
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Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb and actually pays its minions minimum wage.
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>.>
<.<
>.<
O-O
*runs around in mad panic*
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Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb and actually pays its minions minimum wage.
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