Conservative fantasy vs. most likely reality, pt. 2
I decided that depicting a more realistic version of a conservative cartoon was pretty fun, and decided to take another crack at it. Original: My revamp:
Pursuing happiness together
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka’s weddingwith fireworks. Source Over the Independence Day weekend, I kept on thinking about dignity after writing this post. In particular I considered dignity as it relates to the pursuit of happiness, to which we all have a right according to the Declaration of Independence. I wondered if I’d managed.
Dignity in light of Obergefell: What Thomas just doesn’t get
Image: A black person’s hand and a white person’s handforming a heart. Someday somebody’s gonna ask you A question that you should say yes to Once in your life Maybe tonight I’ve got a question for you — “Question,” Old 97’s Control over your own life. Since we were old enough to recognize the concept, each one of us.
Pretending to be
Spotted on Facebook: Left side: Photo of Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Caption: “Pretending to be awoman: Must accept and approve of”Right side: Photo of Rachel Dolezal. Caption: “Pretending tobe black: Unacceptable!! We disapprove” The people I see most often making the equivocation/slippery slope argument between “acceptance” of transgenderism and “acceptance”.
We have to make the comparisons…they will anyway
I was all set to write a post on TERFS, right before Caitlyn Jenner came out. I had several paragraphs written, comparing trans-exclusionary radical feminism to regular transphobia, explaining how regular transphobia tends to be rooted in religious belief and social conservatism, whereas TERFism comes more from a second wave feminist idea of a sisterhood.
Things you should read
The NYPD’s ‘Work Stoppage’ Is Surreal. Matt Taibbi describes the strange twist of New York’s Police Benevolent Association (which becomes a more and more ironic title by the minute) deciding to start making arrests “only when they have to” in order to try and stick it to Mayor Bill de Blasio by depriving the city.
So many questions about what Jim Garlow knows
From Right Wing Watch: Earlier this week, Jim Garlow called in to the “Point Of View” radio program to discuss his participation in the Vatican’s recent summit on marriage. During the course of the conversation, Garlow offered up a rather interesting argument against the acceptance of gay marriage. “All the people who advocate for so-called same-sex.
A-baby-ist.
Niall Ferguson So, just as I’m finishing reading comedian Jen Kirkman’s book I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids, historian Niall Ferguson goes and claims that people who don’t have children don’t care about society or the future. Or at least, he claims that about economist John Maynard.
The most concise explanation of how marriage equality threatens the institution of marriage
…comes from James Sweet, in a comment on Dispatches: For some people, marriage is still an institution that is defined by proscribed roles. The man has certain rights and responsibilities (mostly the former), and the woman has certain rights and responsibilities (mostly the latter), and these are handed down by God and should not be.
10 ways the opposition to gay marriage insults all of us
What I didn’t mention in the previous post about the purpose of marriage, because I intended to discuss it in this post, is that marriage currently serves– for many people, at least– the purpose of cementing gender roles. The single biggest fear of gay marriage opponents honestly seems to be that if men are allowed.