So you heard about Bruce Jenner at the award ceremony last night? Hell I don't even know what award ceremony it was but he - or she - now we gotta call he a she! - was apparently breaking down crying talking about how transgenders need respect, well he's right - or she's right - about that. They do need respect, but Jenner is no damn hero, let me tell you that.
Jenner's just some rich fuck out there to make a buck and he was probably tired of being on a reality show and being cast in the background like an old suitcase and seeing how everyone walked over him and now he's in the spotlight in the way he hasn't been since 1979, and he always enjoyed the spotlight and that's what he's going for. He's no hero for transgender rights.
You wanna know who the TRUE transgender heroes - and heroines - are? They're the kids, the high school kids, the junior high kids, who are trying to figure out who they are in this world and where their place is, and they're trying to figure it out, and they go to school every day. Every. Single. Day. KNOWING they're going to get smack, to get shit, to get bullied.
And yet they GO. They face it every single day, just trying to get through because they know that this is what they gotta do to grow up and get the hell out of there.
They are the true heroes. Not this rich guy who has all his meals handed to him on a silver platter, who's got more money than you or I or most of these TG kids will ever see in our lifetime.
Hero? Heroine? HELL!
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Overheard at Table 4: Cosby
Wife: Deposition came out today. Cosby admitted in 2005 drugging women for sex.
Husband: No way.
Wife: Way. Believe it. s'truth.
Husband: Drugging women for sex...
Wife: Yup. About 40 women have brought charges against him.
Husband: Well, all I know is that I never had to give YOU drugs to get you to have sex with me.
Wife: Nah . . . you just always lulled me to sleep with your tediously boring stories.
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Overheard at Table 3: Tired of Hearing about the Founding Fathers
yknow what? I am so sick of hearing about the Founding Fathers - all the time it's Founding Fathers this and Founding Fathers that and what would they think and they would have thought ....
lemme tellya. They don't give a crap! They're DEAD! All of them! Dead mucho long time. Sorry Charlie don't surf, they are out of here! This is our country now and we have to do with it what we think is best for the people living here now.
Worrying about what the Founding Fathers think is like worrying if great-great-great granddad is gonna like the renovations you make to the family home!
None of us know what the Founding Fathers thought. What we know is OUR impression of what they thought. So any time we get all puffed up and say Founding Fathers meant this...what we're really saying is that "This is what I want to do and I'm going to use this GREAT AUTHORITY to support whatever dipshit 2-bit opinion I have!"
lemme tellya. They don't give a crap! They're DEAD! All of them! Dead mucho long time. Sorry Charlie don't surf, they are out of here! This is our country now and we have to do with it what we think is best for the people living here now.
Worrying about what the Founding Fathers think is like worrying if great-great-great granddad is gonna like the renovations you make to the family home!
None of us know what the Founding Fathers thought. What we know is OUR impression of what they thought. So any time we get all puffed up and say Founding Fathers meant this...what we're really saying is that "This is what I want to do and I'm going to use this GREAT AUTHORITY to support whatever dipshit 2-bit opinion I have!"
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Overheard at Table 2: Now we get married
Lucky Moran: So even though a guy's gay, he's still a guy, right?
Otis Redwing: [cautiously] yeah ...
Lucky: I mean I know the stereotype is WhatNotToWear guy in the really cool suit, but at the heart of it, guys are still guys. So, after the Supreme Court decision on Same Sex Marriage last Friday, I know that somewhere in Houston, there is one guy, at least ONE guy, who is saying to himself, "SHIT! Now my partner is gonna wanna get MARRIED!"
Otis: [chuckles] Yeah, I suppose you're right.
Lucky: I mean, if I were a gay guy that's probably what I would be thinking.
Otis: What, you mean I'm not good enough to marry.
Lucky: What?
Otis: I've sacrificed years of my life for you, and this is the thanks I get?
Lucky: Haha you're hilarious.
Otis Redwing: [cautiously] yeah ...
Lucky: I mean I know the stereotype is WhatNotToWear guy in the really cool suit, but at the heart of it, guys are still guys. So, after the Supreme Court decision on Same Sex Marriage last Friday, I know that somewhere in Houston, there is one guy, at least ONE guy, who is saying to himself, "SHIT! Now my partner is gonna wanna get MARRIED!"
Otis: [chuckles] Yeah, I suppose you're right.
Lucky: I mean, if I were a gay guy that's probably what I would be thinking.
Otis: What, you mean I'm not good enough to marry.
Lucky: What?
Otis: I've sacrificed years of my life for you, and this is the thanks I get?
Lucky: Haha you're hilarious.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
Overheard at Booth 4: Gently and Good Night
So I had this friend, and his name was Eric Gently, and he started seeing this girl, called Holly Goodnight. And I just couldn't help myself, but I would tell him "Do not go, Gently, into that Goodnight."
Oh my God.
What?
You actually said that?
Well, yeah!
Are you . . . are you . . . an ENGLISH major?
Well, yeah I am . . . is that a problem.
Well, yeah, if I ever want my kids to have a hot meal. Yes, it's a BIG problem!
Oh my God.
What?
You actually said that?
Well, yeah!
Are you . . . are you . . . an ENGLISH major?
Well, yeah I am . . . is that a problem.
Well, yeah, if I ever want my kids to have a hot meal. Yes, it's a BIG problem!
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Overheard at the Counter: Marriage, Both of Them
Verble, still blathering away, says,
"Now, the reason why Christians, or those who claim to be Christians (yes, it's true not everyone who claims to be a Christian is truly saved. Now I am not to judge people individually so I can't say 'You are not a Christian because that would be my pride and judgement talking, but just read 'Sheep and Goats' from Matthew and you know it's true, but anyway...) those who claim to be Christians think that Social Marriage and God's Marriage are the same. They think that if they are married by a pastor that makes God bless the marriage.
"Completely false. We have conflated the two so that in our minds they are indistinguishable. This confounds the ignorant and the intelligentsia alike, but this is what it is.
"The human race is separated into two genders. From those genders offspring is made, and by this the human race continues. We all agree on that. Yes, we all know that our science can produce offspring, so sexual reproduction may be rendered unnecessary, but we can't doubt that this is how we all got here. OK, then...
"A careful reading of scripture reveals to us that God's intent is for monogamy. God has many aspects of His personality - call them emotions, call them character traits - but what Christians, among others, believe is that He infused humanity with those traits, separated them between the genders, and that by coming together as one, we could, in our marriage, replicate the completeness that is God.
"Period. One Man and One Woman, giving their marriage over to God to demonstrate to the world their worship of God. If you do not believe in God you do not have a God Marriage. You have a Social Marriage.
"Yes, there are millions, billions, gazillions of people throughout history who have been married in churches in front of 'God and everybody' who have always had a Social Marriage and not a God Marriage. I would say that God Marriage is in terribly short supply.
"Christians are supposed to promote their marriage as a worship of God in the same way that missionaries feed the sick and build homes for the poor as a way of worshiping God. Marriage is intended to be sort of a constant prayer, a vigil, putting up your ebenezer, that type of thing,
"However, Social Marriage is what we have. As humans we have the freedom to create and recreate our culture to what we want it to be. In this culture of equality, I say fair play to yesterday's Supreme Court decision, because they have is bestowed dignity upon couples who have spent years fighting their families over such rights as who gets the stuff when the partner passes away, fighting school systems over who gets to pick up the child from elementary school, fighting companies over who gets to be put on disability benefits, and fighting the culture over who gets the social status of demonstrating to the world 'This is the person I LOVE!' . . . and for that I say, 'Fair play!'
"But sadly, it is not and can never be the concept of Holy Matrimony as an act of devotion, constant prayer, and glorification of God. See? God Marriage.
"But that's OK. Don't worry about it. Most people no longer believe in God anyway, so who cares, right?
"Regardless, any sort of movement by supposed Christians to make any Amendment to the Constitution will only be serving to send a signal that they think they are somehow better and more deserving than others to this idea of marriage, and ultimately that will negate our mission as Christians to show His love to the world through our acts of service to the world.
"We must live together. As much as it is within our power, we must live peaceably among all humans. Personally, I think all this confusion is because we humans always pretended to have something that we did not, and it was our prideful nature to elevate our desires over our worship for Him. We always thought that our Social Marriage was a God Marriage, and it has always only been a social contract.
"But oh, well, frailty is humanity.
"God bless, and have a wonderful day!"
"Now, the reason why Christians, or those who claim to be Christians (yes, it's true not everyone who claims to be a Christian is truly saved. Now I am not to judge people individually so I can't say 'You are not a Christian because that would be my pride and judgement talking, but just read 'Sheep and Goats' from Matthew and you know it's true, but anyway...) those who claim to be Christians think that Social Marriage and God's Marriage are the same. They think that if they are married by a pastor that makes God bless the marriage.
"Completely false. We have conflated the two so that in our minds they are indistinguishable. This confounds the ignorant and the intelligentsia alike, but this is what it is.
"The human race is separated into two genders. From those genders offspring is made, and by this the human race continues. We all agree on that. Yes, we all know that our science can produce offspring, so sexual reproduction may be rendered unnecessary, but we can't doubt that this is how we all got here. OK, then...
"A careful reading of scripture reveals to us that God's intent is for monogamy. God has many aspects of His personality - call them emotions, call them character traits - but what Christians, among others, believe is that He infused humanity with those traits, separated them between the genders, and that by coming together as one, we could, in our marriage, replicate the completeness that is God.
"Period. One Man and One Woman, giving their marriage over to God to demonstrate to the world their worship of God. If you do not believe in God you do not have a God Marriage. You have a Social Marriage.
"Yes, there are millions, billions, gazillions of people throughout history who have been married in churches in front of 'God and everybody' who have always had a Social Marriage and not a God Marriage. I would say that God Marriage is in terribly short supply.
"Christians are supposed to promote their marriage as a worship of God in the same way that missionaries feed the sick and build homes for the poor as a way of worshiping God. Marriage is intended to be sort of a constant prayer, a vigil, putting up your ebenezer, that type of thing,
"However, Social Marriage is what we have. As humans we have the freedom to create and recreate our culture to what we want it to be. In this culture of equality, I say fair play to yesterday's Supreme Court decision, because they have is bestowed dignity upon couples who have spent years fighting their families over such rights as who gets the stuff when the partner passes away, fighting school systems over who gets to pick up the child from elementary school, fighting companies over who gets to be put on disability benefits, and fighting the culture over who gets the social status of demonstrating to the world 'This is the person I LOVE!' . . . and for that I say, 'Fair play!'
"But sadly, it is not and can never be the concept of Holy Matrimony as an act of devotion, constant prayer, and glorification of God. See? God Marriage.
"But that's OK. Don't worry about it. Most people no longer believe in God anyway, so who cares, right?
"Regardless, any sort of movement by supposed Christians to make any Amendment to the Constitution will only be serving to send a signal that they think they are somehow better and more deserving than others to this idea of marriage, and ultimately that will negate our mission as Christians to show His love to the world through our acts of service to the world.
"We must live together. As much as it is within our power, we must live peaceably among all humans. Personally, I think all this confusion is because we humans always pretended to have something that we did not, and it was our prideful nature to elevate our desires over our worship for Him. We always thought that our Social Marriage was a God Marriage, and it has always only been a social contract.
"But oh, well, frailty is humanity.
"God bless, and have a wonderful day!"
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