The gay community lost another marriage fight in Maine, and in their pissivity over the loss they’re once again a la California, letting the negativity flow.
I was wondering who Dan Savage and the gay community were going to blame for this latest loss since African-Americans make up only 1% of Maine’s population.
Lo and behold, they found a Black person to blame for their loss anyway.
President Obama.
0 – 31.
Even the Tampa Bay Buccaneers snapped their losing streak after 26.
It wasn’t the cover everywhere (the copies of the Nov. 9th issue that I saw in DC had the World Series item as the cover story), but the SI cover is the SI cover.
In case you haven’t read the “official stories” or the gossip, Regent Media, the latest owner of The Advocate–once the national LGBT newsmagazine of record for America (41-years-old exactly!)–is reducing the publication to a 32-page mini-mag, taking it off the newsstands, and packaging it up with its “sister” publication, Out magazine. Subscribers will get a magazine they never wanted (Out) and, of course, the still-free website.
What the hell happened? What colossal cluster of f-ups managed to devastate a magazine that was so important even ten years ago that every serious news media in the world turned to it for back up sourcing when covering gay issues?
Might part of the problem be that nine-and-a-half years ago the Advocate ran an op-ed that all but called for the extermination of transsexuals? That referring to the Advocate as an “LGBT newsmagazine” is all but a lie?
Most of all, it saddens me to think that when I worked for The Advocate the one thing I always had going for any story we did was the power and reputation of the magazine.
Yeah? Well, here’s part of the “reputation” of that magazine – specifically, its June 20, 2000 issue:
[W]hy, as adults, do transsexuals mutilate their bodies in order to make them conform to the fashionable version of the opposite sex and gender? That only reinforces oppressive stereotypes every bit as much as liposuction or a bimbo’s boob job. If you’re a man in a woman’s body, then live androgynously if you’re such a revolutionary.
How many of those people whose lives Norah Vincent feels as though she has dictatorial power over did you employ at the Advocate during your tenure? If its not more than zero, you’ll never find me shedding any tears for either the magazine or what you’re feeling.
From C&L, something that should be too disgusting for words, yet has to be articulated somehow:
Oh. My. God. In the “richest country in the world”. There are no words for how unacceptable this is:
Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.
Remember that the next time you see/hear the likes of Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and the rest of the Neo-Republican Mafia insist that the only thing that government needs to do is make the rich richer so the richness can tinkle trickle down.
When will the SEC start regulating game shows masquerading as investment advisory? This weekend, CIT Group (CIT) filed Chapter 11. Merely four weeks ago, Mad Money host and TheStreet.com (Nasdaq: TSCM) founder Jim Cramer said he would buy CIT (”Citi and CIT are Primed for Upside“). This type of incredibly speculative advice is as radioactive to the general investing public as a post nuclear explosion site….
Looks like its time for The Cram to receive a return invite to The Daily Show.
The system will collapse if we continue down this progressive path.Ten years ago, I could have shouted every single day about Osama bin Laden and his wacky, crazy threats to kill Americans in New York. And no one would have been willing to stand in line two hours while some security officers made grandma take her shoes off. No one would have done it.
But don’t you see — while the government is still not willing to do these things, today, America is different. America has changed. Washington, we’re not going to let you get away with it anymore.
Look, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Yes.
He ‘went there.’
Healthcare reform = 9/11.
Conservatives are awake. 912ers are willing to do the hard things. We know what this means. We’re taking time out of our busy lives, taking time away from their families, they’re attending town-hall meetings — you think they wanna do that? They are calling their representatives — how many times do we have to be yelled at by your people in Washington? to work against the enactment of health care reform.
They are reading 2,000-page health-care bills on the weekend. They 912ers are willing to stand in line and take our shoes off before the plane actually hits the tower.
Should I say anything about the probability that fans of Beck’s dreck have ever read anything, much less any congressional bill?
[UPDATE: Re: the second part of this, C&L has video and partial transcript of The Paw throwing down the Republican purity gauntlet]
From HuffPo, a day in the life of the ‘family values’ prostitute customer who doesn’t believe that women contractors in Iraq who are raped should have the right to go to court over their rapes:
[T]he Senator was confronted by a constituent who, after recounting her tale of being raped, demanded to know why he opposed Sen. Al Franken’s (D-Minn) amendment.
The exchange was contentious, heart wrenching, and potentially damaging.
How damaging?
WOMAN: But how can you support [a law] that tells a rape victim that she does not have the right to defend herself?
VITTER: Ma’am The language in question did not say that in any way shape or form.
WOMAN: But it is unconstitutional to have a law that says a woman does not have a right to defend herself.
VITTER: You realize Mr. Obama was against that amendment that his administration was against that amendment
WOMAN: But I’m not asking Obama. I’m asking you.
VITTER: Do you think he’s in favor in rape?
WOMAN: I’m asking you Senator. What if it was your daughter who was raped? Would you tell her to be quiet and take it? Would you tell your daughter to be silent?
I ran across this HuffPo piece after seeing a disgusting performance this morning by Minnesota Governor Tim “I’m just Norm Coleman with a less ridiculous accent” Pawlenty – on, of course, Morning Joe (will I ever learn?). If I find a transcript, I’ll post it, but the discussion was about national Republicans interfering in local elections such as the special election in New York and about ideological purity. Pawlenty repeatedly yammered about the types of “behaviors” by a politician that could be tolerated for that politician to remain a Republican. Repeatedly he was asked about Maine’s Olympia Snowe.
His repeated answer?
Nothingspeak.
Nothingspeak.
Nothingspeak.
Nothingspeak.
Nothingspeak.
Nothingspeak.
Nothingspeak.
Stitched together, his words would form the better part of ten minutes – and he said absolutely nothing.
And, of course, these are the people who are now winning.
Apparently someone in Belfast has been getting some jollies from Blanchard-esque thought. But, you judge for yourselves whether that might be the case or not.
Meet the TRANSSEXUAL rape counsellor who saw vulnerable victims while wearing HIGH HEELS, LEGGINGS and LIPSTICK. Burly Keira McCormack, 47 — who used to be a quantity surveyor known as Kevin — was employed at the Nexus Institute in Belfast from 2005 to May this year.
If you’re having Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief flashbacks, then you’re not alone. However, this is from Northern Ireland.
But focus for a moment on the article itself.
Meet the TRANSSEXUAL rape counsellor who saw vulnerable victims while wearing HIGH HEELS, LEGGINGS and LIPSTICK.
Holy femininity, Batman! A woman wore high heels! A woman wore leggings! A woman wore lipstick!
So what if she’s a transsexual woman?
If any other woman has ever worn high heels or leggings or lipstick while counseling, why should that be mentioned?
Oh…
For you to know if any other woman has ever worn high heels or leggings or lipstick while counseling, you would have had to engage in some actual journalism.
Journalism.
Look into it. In the meantime, think about some of the comments to what I assume is your audition piece for a gig with WingNutDaily.
This is an awesomely bigoted piece of writing. Really, really staggering. Ill informed, prejudiced, prurient, insulting, really jaw dropping. What century are you living in? What planet are you livingon that you think it is OK to write with such ignorant hate?
You know nothing of the history of this person, their qualifications, their abilities, who they have helped, why they were employed. Your vile assumptions are truly breathtaking.
This article examines Ray’s childhood, family life, sexuality, Catholic upbringing, and interest in penile tumescence. It also examines how CAMH became the world’s largest publicly-funded forced feminization sex dungeon and transgender reparative therapy clinic. Finally, it examines what Blanchard’s most important legacy will be: the broad expansion of “paraphilia” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) to further oppress sex and gender minorities as mentally disordered.
‘Tis worth a read.
Here’s a preview:
[Blanchard's] taxonomy of trans women has already reduced all our relationships to paraphilia. People who love trans women have a paraphilia he calls “gynandromorphophilia” (Blanchard 1993), and trans women who get in relationships are merely using their partner as a paraphilic prop in a narcissistic fantasy (Sullivan 2008). This echoes outdated assertions that gay people can’t have a “normal” relationship.
It’s amazing to me that someone whose sexuality was depathologized by psychiatry the very year he got his Ph.D. would be so hell-bent on imposing that very oppression on others. Yet here we are. The biggest step backwards in the history of sexology is about to happen, thanks to Ray Blanchard. He probably won’t live to see what a problematic figure he will become within his own field, becoming like John Money: someone where it’s hard to separate the good from the bad.
Rush Limbaugh isn’t endorsing Sarah Palin for president in 2012 but he says she’s ready for the job now.
And the song playing in my head right now? Pink Floyd’s :Two Suns in the Sunset”:
… Could be the human race is run.
Yes, the entire human race. We the Americans speak for all of it, don’t we? If we’ve degenerated to the point where Sarah Palin is viewed not simply as voting viagara but as actually qualified to be president…
then maybe it is time to turn things back over to the amoebas and start over from scratch.
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