Category — Bigotry & Intolerance

Check it out. They can do it.

See how strikingly adorable it is when opposing forces decide to put aside their differences, their contradictory natures, and just cuddle it out?

Meanwhile, humans everywhere are acting totally douche. Fighting. Debating. Doing stupid shit to become stars on YouTube.

Oh bird and kitten… what our dumb species could learn from your cooperative ways. I won’t acknowledge the fact that you are the exceptions in your own species and not the rules. Damn. Maybe you do share commonalities with the human race.

Are you too annoying?

No, no. Let me help you out with that. The answer is yes, you are.

I am so fucking tired of this question, I cannot explain it. It’s not so much the implication of sisterhood. It’s the fact that strangers 1) feel that they have the right to ask any question about us personally, and 2) make such assumptions.

I assume other gay people get this all the time. After all, why would two adults of the same sex be grocery shopping together unless they were sisters? Oh wait… when I see two adults of the same sex grocery shopping together, a sibling relationship isn’t the assumption that I make.

On Sunday, at my sister’s house, we mentioned that we were going to NYC this weekend. In response, my mom said “Thanks for inviting me.” This isn’t the first time we’ve gotten that from her. Ever since my mother’s divorce last year, it seems every time it’s mentioned that we are going, or we have gone, out of town, my mom wants to know why she wasn’t asked.

And the whys don’t really matter so much.

But this does.

My mother doesn’t ask her married children why she hasn’t been invited on their out-of-town trips. She asks us. And little does she know, every time she asks, l am reminded how little respect she has for my relationship.

There has been a lot of talk about race in this election year. Of course there has. It’s the first time in history that a black man has come so close to the presidential nomination. It’s bound to come up.

Is it really an issue? Does it really matter at all?

The exit polls in state after state prove that it does. The black community isn’t just overwhelmingly supporting Obama, they are almost exclusively supporting Obama. And that’s okay. There is nothing wrong with racial pride.

After the revealing reports all over the airwaves yesterday, the question comes up though, where is the line between racial pride and racism?

Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s words? What do those represent? While some of the things that he has said actually have some degree of merit, there is a definite tone of “us against them” in Wright’s speeches.

It’s an ominous beginning to the legacy of a “great uniter”.

Ah, Geraldine Ferraro, the most recent person in a Democratic campaign to step down after saying something completely stupid in the media.

My question is this: How hard is it to keep your fucking mouth shut?

I know that tensions are high between the Clinton and Obama campaigns right now. I know that with the back and forth attacks, and they are going both ways, there are bound to be a few people who get incensed and go off on a little tangent.

But in the media? In the media?!?

These people aren’t running for class office. They are running for president. These are huge, expensive, well-managed (for the most part) presidential campaigns. This is the top tier of our political system. And yet, everyone seems to be surrounded by people who don’t know when not to talk.

This frightens me. Seriously. I know the difference between things I should and shouldn’t say out loud. I would really like to think that our most influential politicians could figure it out.