I try - but I'm never this articulate - so just pretend I said this.
And then go tell all your friends what "I" said!
Then go call your local and national politicians and tell them too.
Showing posts with label important commentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label important commentary. Show all posts
4/8/13
3/26/13
Keep your minds on your own genitals.
Re: same-sex marriage
Genitals should have nothing to do with marriage rights. As a licensed minister I have been privileged to join a few very loving couples I know well in marriage. I never once considered their genitalia and yet I was able to unite them for life with my signature. My signature could also unite men and women I know nothing about except for the fact that one has a penis (and balls) and the other a vagina (and a vulva). These could be people who have just met, are in an abusive relationship, are forced into marriage by family, are lying to each other, are simply not in love....or who in any other way have absolutely no business being married. They could be united for life with my signature. But I cannot unite any couple who has every reason to be married but happen to have matching genitalia. Where is the logic? Why does the SUPREME COURT have to get involved in this? Seems like if they are making decisions for gay couples then there should be a court analyzing each and every marriage.
Re: same-sex parenting
The people that say same-sex couples should not raise children because it will fuck the kids up are the only people* I see that will actually fuck up the kids of same-sex couples. These people are assholes raising their own kids to be assholes and all of these assholes are the ones that will be damaging the self-esteem and well-being of kids being raised by loving committed people who happen to be of the same gender. Asshole bullying is the problem, not the love of same-sex parents. So let's stop letting assholes get married and raise kids - not just to help the children of gay parents but to protect kids of the assholes from the abusive hate-teaching they get at home. Teaching hate should really be officially defined as child abuse, by the way.
Re: same-sex sex
Do people who sit around thinking about and discussing their gay neighbors or gay parents of their child's classmate or their gay clergy person having sex sit around and think about everybody having sex? Do they imagine the specifics of other classroom parents having sex? Do they sit in church imagining the middle aged choir members doing it? Are they super interested in what their other neighbors are doing with their genitals? If so, then I'd say they are the ones who shouldn't be married or having kids. If not, why are they so busy talking about homosexual sex acts? They should really keep their minds on their own genitals.
*I fully understand that same-sex couples will not raise perfect children and we are all a little bit fucked up and we all can blame our parents for a little bit (or a lot) of it. My point here is about the argument that kids will get fucked up specifically and solely because their parents are a same-sex couple. The same-sex issue only becomes a negative issue when the assholes get involved.
Genitals should have nothing to do with marriage rights. As a licensed minister I have been privileged to join a few very loving couples I know well in marriage. I never once considered their genitalia and yet I was able to unite them for life with my signature. My signature could also unite men and women I know nothing about except for the fact that one has a penis (and balls) and the other a vagina (and a vulva). These could be people who have just met, are in an abusive relationship, are forced into marriage by family, are lying to each other, are simply not in love....or who in any other way have absolutely no business being married. They could be united for life with my signature. But I cannot unite any couple who has every reason to be married but happen to have matching genitalia. Where is the logic? Why does the SUPREME COURT have to get involved in this? Seems like if they are making decisions for gay couples then there should be a court analyzing each and every marriage.
Re: same-sex parenting
The people that say same-sex couples should not raise children because it will fuck the kids up are the only people* I see that will actually fuck up the kids of same-sex couples. These people are assholes raising their own kids to be assholes and all of these assholes are the ones that will be damaging the self-esteem and well-being of kids being raised by loving committed people who happen to be of the same gender. Asshole bullying is the problem, not the love of same-sex parents. So let's stop letting assholes get married and raise kids - not just to help the children of gay parents but to protect kids of the assholes from the abusive hate-teaching they get at home. Teaching hate should really be officially defined as child abuse, by the way.
Re: same-sex sex
Do people who sit around thinking about and discussing their gay neighbors or gay parents of their child's classmate or their gay clergy person having sex sit around and think about everybody having sex? Do they imagine the specifics of other classroom parents having sex? Do they sit in church imagining the middle aged choir members doing it? Are they super interested in what their other neighbors are doing with their genitals? If so, then I'd say they are the ones who shouldn't be married or having kids. If not, why are they so busy talking about homosexual sex acts? They should really keep their minds on their own genitals.
*I fully understand that same-sex couples will not raise perfect children and we are all a little bit fucked up and we all can blame our parents for a little bit (or a lot) of it. My point here is about the argument that kids will get fucked up specifically and solely because their parents are a same-sex couple. The same-sex issue only becomes a negative issue when the assholes get involved.
2/19/13
A Little Rant About Radio DJs
I am finally going to say it: Someone needs to tell radio DJs to shut the fuck up unless they are talking about music. I guess I have actually said it many times but now I have typed it! I am permanently putting it on record that I think: Someone needs to tell radio DJs to shut the fuck up unless they are talking about music.
I appreciate knowing about the artists, the concerts, the history of a song - even the opinion of the DJ about the song. But when it comes to things unrelated to music, I prefer that they shut the fuck up. This pertains to all sorts of topics including marriage, infidelity, how to raise children, what's appropriate and what's not when it comes to body hair, how much money a person should spend on a Valentine's day present, how much sex is too much sex, working moms vs. stay at home moms....and so on and so on. Today the topic was Mindy McCready's suicide.
Mindy McCready has died by her own hand. Awful news. But that's all it is. Awful news. THE END.
No more on air analyzing of her "decision" to die.
No more saying she is a horrible mother for leaving her children.
No more calling her crazy.
No more inviting listeners to call in to talk about her.
.... and so on and so on.
Here is what 96.3 KTWIN* asked this morning on the Cane & Co. Listener Slant for Tuesday: Sympathy or Anger? How do you feel about Mindy McCready’s suicide? She is survived by her two young sons... one is six years old and the other 10 MONTHS old. Bias unintended I am sure.
I didn't call in because I was driving but here is what I would have said:
You are radio DJs. Disc Jockeys. Music slingers. Entertainers. Not mental health professionals. Not therapists. You are not qualified to lead a discussion on a sensitive topic that touches the lives of so many people in horrific ways. You would not discuss the ethics of dying of cancer. Do not do this with suicide either. You have a lot of listeners and a lot of power. Why not take the opportunity to educate and help erase the stigma of mental illness instead? If you can't do that then please just shut the fuck up unless you are talking about music. (or the traffic and weather, that's OK. But nothing else. Wait, maybe chickens and goats too. But that's it. Nothing else.)
P.S. www.save.org -- www.makeitok.org
*This is the facebook version of the question of the day. The all caps in MONTH is theirs. I sort of got into an argument with them on facebook today about this question - but I was much more polite than I am being here.
*Just in case someone from KTWIN reads this and gets pissed off I should mention that not ALL of the comments on the show about Mindy McCready's suicide were negative. But much of what I heard was very negative and I am only picking on them because they happened to be the station I stayed on - many stations have aired the same sort of discussion.
I appreciate knowing about the artists, the concerts, the history of a song - even the opinion of the DJ about the song. But when it comes to things unrelated to music, I prefer that they shut the fuck up. This pertains to all sorts of topics including marriage, infidelity, how to raise children, what's appropriate and what's not when it comes to body hair, how much money a person should spend on a Valentine's day present, how much sex is too much sex, working moms vs. stay at home moms....and so on and so on. Today the topic was Mindy McCready's suicide.
Mindy McCready has died by her own hand. Awful news. But that's all it is. Awful news. THE END.
No more on air analyzing of her "decision" to die.
No more saying she is a horrible mother for leaving her children.
No more calling her crazy.
No more inviting listeners to call in to talk about her.
.... and so on and so on.
Here is what 96.3 KTWIN* asked this morning on the Cane & Co. Listener Slant for Tuesday: Sympathy or Anger? How do you feel about Mindy McCready’s suicide? She is survived by her two young sons... one is six years old and the other 10 MONTHS old. Bias unintended I am sure.
I didn't call in because I was driving but here is what I would have said:
You are radio DJs. Disc Jockeys. Music slingers. Entertainers. Not mental health professionals. Not therapists. You are not qualified to lead a discussion on a sensitive topic that touches the lives of so many people in horrific ways. You would not discuss the ethics of dying of cancer. Do not do this with suicide either. You have a lot of listeners and a lot of power. Why not take the opportunity to educate and help erase the stigma of mental illness instead? If you can't do that then please just shut the fuck up unless you are talking about music. (or the traffic and weather, that's OK. But nothing else. Wait, maybe chickens and goats too. But that's it. Nothing else.)
P.S. www.save.org -- www.makeitok.org
*This is the facebook version of the question of the day. The all caps in MONTH is theirs. I sort of got into an argument with them on facebook today about this question - but I was much more polite than I am being here.
*Just in case someone from KTWIN reads this and gets pissed off I should mention that not ALL of the comments on the show about Mindy McCready's suicide were negative. But much of what I heard was very negative and I am only picking on them because they happened to be the station I stayed on - many stations have aired the same sort of discussion.
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