I saw this clip and it reminded me about this weekend. Here’s the clip:
Have you ever noticed that people are quite happy with what they have right up until they see someone else have something they deem greater than their lot? Give one kid a cookie and they dance, give their sibling a larger cookie and tears run like desperate rivers – and far too many of us seem to hold on to that right through “adulthood”.
I was visiting with my parents this weekend and Dad had to tell me about a great comedian he heard. This great comedian made such a great point: Why is it that Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed the slaves, only gets one day of recognition. Worse, he asks, is that he has to share it with George Washington! How unfair, he says. I don’t really see him honoring Lincoln and Washington, but perhaps he does it quietly. But, in keeping with this comedian’s bit, if only they’d sucked off each-other, they would get a full month! Why isn’t that just humorous?
Some days I really don’t know what to think about people. Isn’t it bad enough that people who say they love us vote for those who’d choose to outlaw us, to kill us, to disenfranchise us, to relegate us to obscurity back into the closet? These same people hate, denigrate, despise… and I guess in Rob Schneider’s case, make jokes. He’s funny, don’t you know. I was rolling. Anyway … and those who say they love us vote for them, patronize them, clap for them, and tell their gay son just how that comedian is so very funny and wise.
Thanks Dad. Love you.
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we revile people for being gay but never apparently do we get nearly as offended when a grown man assaults a small girl, or we discover a sex ring in our neighborhood. We had three men in our small town who procured young girls for other men. what lovely fellas. One of them even was my babysitter when I was a little gril, and when my mother told me what he was up to, I said, do you realize he used to be my babysitter: “oh.” she said. “I never even thought of that…” and poured me another cup of coffee.
We really don’t get it, do we.
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Hi Judy. Scottie and I talked yesterday where he gave me a bit of a thump on the head for not using the “reply” button. New fangled contraptions… ! Anyway, I figured I should at least let you know that I had responded even if I was too much a luddite to understand the basic “reply” button. 🙂
Sorry –
randy
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Hi Judy. I’ve been really confused about the republicans for a while now, but to a real extent it’s a large part of America. We expound upon what we will accept and will not, but when faced with the real happening of that stated value too many just shrug. I think that says a lot about a boundary that it is so weak to be violable upon convenience. Frankly I think it says that there is something else of greater value to that person – perhaps they value hate, they value “I’m Right” or “Righteous” and “Holy”. Perhaps they are jealous, living a life denied their true wants and needs. Whatever the value system of someone so unaffected by what should never be, I sure hope they have their come-to-Jesus and realize just what they’ve allowed to go on.
In regards to your mother’s response, I don’t know her – of course – but to play the angel’s advocate, I can only imagine the shock and helplessness of that, the guilt. If you don’t think that accurate, then I guess the previous part applies.
Thanks for your comment. Needed to talk about this, I guess.
randy
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Hi Randy. I had three thoughts reading this post. One was you said you needed to talk about it and I am glad you wrote it here, but why did you not call me brother? Second thought was the people sexually abusing me were straight they claimed and hated queers. I was a queer because of what they forced me to do, so it gave them an excuse to hate me. Third like the guy in the video said the straights can have a pride month when being straight is illegal, they are denied the right to marry who they love, when being straight costs you your job or a promotion, when being straight can get you thrown out of your apartment or even your home as a kid, when being straight will get you thrown out of clubs or restaurants, when being straight is punished by severe beatings, jail time, or death. Then we will join them in a straight pride month. I wonder why your father doesn’t hit me with such things. He doesn’t hastate to write on computer issues. Hugs
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Hi Scottie. In this age of drumpf, I’ve come to ignore a lot. I had hopes of our country maturing, but there’s that seedy underbelly that refuses to come out of the dark ages. So, I sometimes don’t realize that something was egregious until I have time to consider it a bit. And, let’s face it, none of our sanity would survive long if we didn’t simply ignore 95% of what maga people say.
I don’t think Dad wants to know the truth. There are a lot of people who have put a great deal of time into idolizing drumpf. It’s sort of like me and being overweight: I’d change it, but I put so much money into getting fat I’d hate to just throw all of that effort away. Makes about as much sense.
I have a younger generation cousin – I don’t know how to describe that better?? – who is gay. He is doing really well, and is well accepted in this unaccountably right-wing family. That tells me that our country is perhaps not on track to grow up out of this insanity so much as, perhaps, outlast it and outlive it.
Hugs;
randy
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Hi Randy. As you said there are some who glorify and desire the dark ages of the past to the prospect of an enlighten future. Sadly those people when they get money or power put a lot of energy in to keeping the status quo and removing any advances from it. For example the fundamentalist religious groups feel that they must make everyone live by their church doctrine to please their god. They want their reward of heaven so god must be pleased. These same people would have been ok with ritual sacrifices of virgins to please the gods in the days that were done. Then you have the white supremacist who feel that black people having rights to be equal to them is somehow taking rights from white people. They feel they must make the world whiter and that whites must be more privileged because they are white and always had that white privilege. To lose it is to make them lessor. They can’t have that. You have the science deniers like Kennedy who want to remove the newest best advances in vaccine technology because they don’t understand it and think that correlation equals causation. Again staying in the past they understand is safer for them than the future that confuses them. That leads me to the last group. Elderly people who can’t accept the social changes of the younger generations and want society to be as it was when they were younger or in their prime. It was good for them back then, why does it have to change. Can’t young people just be as they were, why do they have to have different hairs styles, clothing, ideas, or … different views on sex / gender. It is too much and they find it easier to hate it or deny it rather than understand it. Hugs
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