Let's not talk about sex, baby, let's not talk about you or me...

[archanglrobriel]

First of all, sorry I haven't been around more on LJ, but NaNoWriMo is eating my head. You'd think for someone like myself (who tends to fall more on the garrulous side of the spectrum) writing a mere 1,667 words per day would be no big deal...but no matter how you slice it, there's a time commitment involved. And then there's the fact that writing

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[peskyaura]

Have you noticed that all the recently outed gay Republicans have admitted to either a drinking problem or something else to take responsibility away from them? A little transparent, I think.

[die7fox]

I'm loving that. It's not their fault. It never is. They were all abused, or drunk, or both.

I've gotta go with Wanda Sykes on this: "These people are giving alcohol a bad name. Alcohol might make me, you know, sleep with a fatty or pee on the neighbor's yard, but you don't turn into a pedophile!"

[d2leddy]

It's an elegant, sophisticated rhetoric--the substance abuse reply: it affords an out (from being outed), an out from being gay, ties into the higher degrees of substance abuse found in sexual-minority communites, all the while re-enforcing stereotypes of our hyprebolic hedonism. It encourages the notion that we are inherently broken--a familiar and therefore comforting notion to the masses--while uttely dodging the realities of social-stress and how it feeds addiction, abuse, and self-destruction.

As a rhetorician, I want to congratulate that rhtoric's architect, with one hand. Then, I want to inform him in my best Jeff Stryker voice that this sissy will now kick his ass.

[archanglrobriel]

C'mere baby...Mama want a thin mint...

It always disgusts me how quickly these powerful guys fall face first into SuperVictim the instant they get caught. Oh booo hooo! You don't understand! It's not my fault I did those bad things, because I'm a drug addict/alcoholic/a priest touched my pee pee 40 years ago.

[wesleysgirl]

A little tangential, but that kid from Dr Quinn, Chad Allen, is supposedly making a movie with Garett Maggart, who was Blair on The Sentinel, about a gay guy working for the FBI who falls in love with his partner.

http://www.freakexperts.com/

The website's pretty uninteresting overall because, I think, it's one of those independent projects, but I think it will be very cool if it happens.

[pebblepup]

I... think the actor in question was the son of the guy he was playing, and that although there was something of a muted uproar from the fundie plebs, the fundie movie company who made it was pretty good about defending both the casting and the man involved.

[die7fox]

I'm two days behind on NaNoWriMo now. *twitch*

I like your rant. I recommend making it more public, if possible.

[archanglrobriel]

Well two days is recoverable. That's just 3,334 behind. You break that down by day and it isn't that much.

Oh and I have made this rant public. Your wish is my command. *bow*

[die7fox]

Your lord is pleased.

I've made up half of what I failed to write over the weekend. By tonight, I should be back on track. It's a good thing this isn't an exercise in publishable work. :-)

[d2leddy]

Your lord is pleased.

Now this is a twist I did not anticipate. o.0

**twitching subsiding

[d2leddy]

(who tends to fall more on the garrulous side of the spectrum) writing a mere 1,667 words per day would be no big deal...but no matter how you slice it, there's a time commitment involved.

I think you are comparing apples and oranges . . . speaking and writing. While the two are related, one of the things I studied in college was exactly how we learn to write. There is a method of teaching writing, from grade school thorugh college, that comes from the perspective that to best learn to write in your native language, the instructor should apprach you as if teaching how to speak a foreign language--using foreign language learning methods and all the associated assumptions--is a much more effective method than "contemporary" methods. Naturally, this method is rarely used. But I digress. Writing is not simply the recording of the spoken word on paper. While learning to speak is instinctive, learning to write is not, and requires significantly more conscious directives; so does the act of writing. For example, speaking (in English)

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[die7fox]

Yeah, we do our share, it seems, to spur the economy.

I think that's why the Right loathes us so much. Here we are, a good chunk of us with gobs of disposable income, able to indulge our hedonism without the horse collar of family.

They're jealous. What else can it be?

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[d2leddy]

In addition, I'd like to suggest there is one more jealousy: Consider the characteristics of the female sex drive (generally speaking). Look at the characteristics of the male sex drive (generally speaking).

Are females and males *really* sexually compatible? What is more compatible than same-sex sex? The characteristics and associated needs are similar. What is more masculine than two men making love? More feminine than two women.

Secretly, they HATES that! They HATES! what they do not have!

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[archanglrobriel]

I agree with both of you. The Uptighty Righties have major jealousy issues lyin' all over the place where the whole "gay agenda" is concerned.
They're clearly obsessed with all things gay. From what I'm hearing the Righties spend more time thinking about gay sex than I do. They go out of their way to describe gay sex and gay sexual activities in detail more than suitable for publication in a One Hand mag.
To them our lives are this endless, slow motion, sweaty, shirtless volleyball game on Fire Island...and theirs? Well they have to mow the lawn. And the mini-van needs to be washed and then they have to pick up a plunger at the Wal-Mart because the toilet in the kids bathroom is plugged up again. It's just not FAIR!!

Plus, we've got two of the things they want most in the world but can never have:

an endless supply of enthusiastic blow jobs and the absolute freedom to fall asleep instantaneously afterwards.

And they are sooooo pissed about that.

[femmefrets]

Being able to see these politicians/church leaders/hypocrites with such compassion is truly a virtue, Rob.

[archanglrobriel]

Why thank you, I do try to remember the humanity of the people involved. As my religious studies professor once said "The Buddha nature is in everyone...it's just that there are a lot of stupid Buddhas out there."