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Originally Posted by June
I don't think it helps us overall. I think while it does shine a light on the hypocrisy, it also looks like "we're" all a bunch of pervs out to get laid (SHUT UP SNOW!).
It feels to me like it erases the 'normality' of my actual life. My personal family values.
Don't get me wrong, this kind of stuff enrages me, but it also feels like it gets more attention than those of us who just go about our daily lives, working, being parents, paying taxes, being good human beings.
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June;
You're absolutely correct, this kind of stuff DOES get more attention than those of us who go about our daily lives, working, paying taxes and being good human beings. I would submit to you, dear friend, that in fact this is a GOOD thing. Go back to my invocation of the journalism school "dog bites man isn't news, but man bites dog is news". I would rather live in a world where my getting up and going to work and then going to class and then dragging my tired butch ass home is a case of the dog biting than man, than of the man biting the dog. I submit that, in case, the reason why you don't hear much about this queer people who go about living their ordinary lives is *because* they are ordinary lives.
My sister getting up and going to work everyday is about as newsworthy as the fact that the Sun rose in the East this morning. Your getting up and going to work everyday is as newsworthy as my sister doing so. It would be a sad sign indeed if, in fact, we got noticed for doing ordinary things because it would mean one of two things: either people don't expect us to have ordinary lives, in which case our doing so becomes news or we, as a group, really *don't* have ordinary, mundane lives. Given the choice, which would you want--to be treated like any other citizen, a curiosity or the exception to the rule?
Cheers
Aj