Hey, DirtySpaceNews, 99 OUT OF EVERY 100 POSTS ARE VERY VERY FUNNY. And then the 100th post is THOUGHTFUL AND SINCERE.
You'll be OK. We are all pulling for you.
You guys have to admit that it's kind of nuts that I wrote an entire post and there are already 39 comments and yet no one has said a word about his cornrows. LET'S ALL TRY AND GET IT TOGETHER.
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This isn't a post exactly, but it is about someone from Michigan who is not a nightmare.
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No! I have no opinion of any of the new cast members and wish them all the best. But we can agree that bit was not very good for reasons that went well beyond the performer.
Sure, although there's a bit of Kathy Griffin's "where my gays at?" to her fan-dedication, which seems really disingenuous and gross. Like, NO ONE is confused about who makes up large swaths of Lady Gaga's fan base. You don't have to be so on the nose about it, and if you are going to be so on the nose about it, why are you being so on the nose about it? It seems kind of weird to go out of your way to isolate and define a group that spends a lot of its time fighting against isolation and definition.
I agree with you that "homoracism" is the "real" problem, but there are certainly actionable ways in which we can at least address the national symptoms of that problem (army, marriage, etc). Because, you know, you can't really make "prejudice of the heart" illegal.
But I disagree with you about the importance of Don't Ask Don't Tell. For one thing, there is no equivocation when it comes to equality. Either people share equality or they do not. There's no half-measure where things are equal enough (which was attempted during the post-reconstruction, pre-Civil Rights era, to miserable results). Also: it had basically no effect. The institutionalization of homophobia remained as strong as ever. In which case, it actually was counter-productive because it gave the military a partial smokescreen through which to argue things were better when they were the same. This, of course, is the problem with half-measures. They give the "enemy" (for lack of a better term) a new weapon, which is a moral smokescreen through which things get confused when in reality there is nothing confusing about, again, equality. It's pretty clear cut when it is or is not happening.
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