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She blinded him with whiteness - 2008-07-25
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8:51 a.m. - 2008-03-31
A lot on my mind this morning. Some rather large news from each kid. Another biggie from the career front. I dreamt about gardening all night last night and woke up with a wonderful plan for the perennial bed. Mick is trimming the back of my head for me today and we're both a bit nervous about it. I've decided I hate Meg Cabot's writing with a passion second only to my loathing for Jody Piccoult's inept melodramatic nonsensical claptrap. Finally found an incense for my altar that wins against the pool hall stink of my Virginia Slims. And today is the day my piggy free-for-all ends and I start eating right again. So what am I going to talk about? THIS. Yo, chuckleheads, what part about moving to IDAHO did you not understand? According to the article, pretty much everything. LA's Duh of the Day Award goes to those two. At first I thought, "Well, LA, you were stunned and disgusted when you moved to Texas. Had no idea such close-minded idiocy held sway once you left the Tri-states metro area. Not a clue about how pernicious the White, Uptight, and Living Way Beyond Right (wing) ugliness was. Spent seven years being sick to your stomach and cringing away from the cheery hatefulness of the bible thumping racist morons." But I also remembered I was barely 18 when I left NY. A rather sheltered and innocent 18 at that. There was no internet in 1981. No CNN. No 'Marriage Protection Act'. The triumphant ascension of Church over State was still 25 years into the future and the messiah Dub was still getting his drink on in Odessa. Unless those two have been living under a rock (which it sounds like they have) it doesn't take a Quiz Bowl champeen to figure out that being gay and moving to Idaho is a spectacularly stupid idea. Nor does it take a Mensa membership to understand that while Konica Minolta is a private company that of course they'd use the state's legalized bigotry as a shield to save themselves some coin on providing benefits. I could understand if the couple had deliberately chosen to move to Idaho so as to take on and challenge the legalized hate much the same as those brave souls who moved into restricted all white suburbs did during the Civil Rights era. I'd respect that and would be here rooting them on. But their daffy bewildered surprise maddens me. Now of course I can't know all the details from a single blurb on Yahoo news and the article's author might have a wee bit of naiveté going on herself, but am I wrong here in thinking those two doofuses need to be smacked upside their empty little heads for not understanding that what happens in Jersey stays in Jersey? For being such helpless clueless dolts as to not have given one iota's thought as to what kind of changes might be in store for them after a cross-country move? Sorry, boys, but you're both my age and then some, you've been living in Grown-Up Land for over three decades and it's just now sinking in that you are responsible for your own selves? Come on, I don't care how many times you've seen The Birdcage, it cannot be a shock to you that life for gay folk in America is rough, nasty and as far as most of your new neighbors are concerned you two shouldn't even get to be in the back of the bus. They'd be tickled to put you under its wheels. It's not that I believe what's happening to them is right, far from it. It's disgusting. What's ticking me off is the non-thinking. '"It didn't even dawn on us that this would have an impact," Ryan said.' Rightie-o. And how did you manage to choose a new house with your head so far up your ass? '"We fell in love with the area, we love Idaho," Martinelli said. "But here it is 2008 and people are still being discriminated against."' This is a surprise? Nice to be you then. Good luck, you two. You're gonna need it.
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