anatomist1

Yay for absinthe! And puppies!!

Wow. Thats gotta be frustrating. Noone really seems to get your point. I think they're so appalled because they are confused. You injected rational pragmatic dialogue into their pc-warm-and-fuzzy-pat-ourselves-on-the-back-post. Fucking earnest zealots. Whats really funny is that they don't realize that your idea/solution is more "liberal" than theirs. I mean, you said that under your scheme parents and kids could take advantage of civil union!! And then they act like you are raining on some parade.

I got into this with some lesbian friends a few months ago. They had written letters to presidential candidates about this issue and wanted me to do the same after I made some brash reactionary comment, as I've been known to make from time to time, like "power to the people" or "fuck the man." Just an infantile gesture of solidarity, dig? So anyway, I told them that if was to write a letter to a presidential candidate I would focus on issues that affect the broad majority of people: health care, jobs, the environment, the growing gap b/w rich and poor, etc. I also happened to comment on how I thought dwelling on issues like abortion, legalizing drugs, gay marriage and the like were divisive issues and did more harm than good. They are issues that the right and GOP love to throw out there as they demonstrate how the left is detached from the "real world." As an example I used some relatives of mine who are staunchly catholic and pro choice and as a result they are republicans. But quiz them on any other platform issues and they lean heavily towards the dems: even taxes. But this ONE ISSUE decided their vote. Imagine if abortion wasn't on the table and a nice chunk of the pro-life people started voting dem.! Its a similar phenomena as blue collar workers voting rebublican when the dem. platform would benefit them so much more. My point is/was that these "boutique" issues that seem to cause so much devisiveness take the limelight off of what are the truly important issues that can raise the standard of living/improve quality of life for a lot of fucking people. And, ultimately, create an environment where more people are informed and won't give a rats ass about what gays and lesbians to. But my lesbian friends just freaked and I only recently got back on their good side.