The Kids are All Right. The fact that this movie even showed in my area was a miracle, so, I saw it. 10,000 points to the AMC showplace in Michigan City. ...And another 10,000 points to the 70+ year old straight couple who were sitting in front of me and my friend for shattering stereotypes and being generally adorable.
For those of you who are oblivious:
I heard the wrath of the lesbians from my living room in the middle of the boonies the first time I saw the trailer on tv back when it came out in select theaters. It shook the ground a little. I thought, 'Ohh, dear god WHY did they have to have one of them screw the donor? The lesbians are going to KILL them.' Which, some of us apparently did. I'm not prone to violence, especially not when it's against something I haven't even seen. That, and all the reviews of the film by people I trust, a.k.a the staff at AfterEllen said that the movie was not, in fact, a detriment to our standings as lady lovers. They were right. Oh so right. Because it's not about lesbians or lesbian families or gayness or Kinsey Scale analysis. It's about marriage, and parenthood, and family. Anyone who has or has had a family, or parents, or a marriage, or a teenage child, can relate to this movie. It really is a good movie. For all of you gay women that are haters on principal and haven't seen it, stop being a blow-hard and a follower and go buy a 5 dollar ticket and decide for yourself. I'm gay and I watched it and never once did I feel misrepresented or abused and really had no reason to get offended. Honestly. It didn't hurt at all. I realize I'm not making a very intelligent argument here, and the staff at AE did a much better job. In fact, I'm going to just shut up and refer you to their articles. Also, ignore the comments. Decide for yourself.
By Dorothy Snarker
Bridget McManus interviews Juliane Moore
Bridget McManus's review
And all the others I did not read most of them, but they're there for your consideration. :)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
It was not long ago
This bullshit about the "groud zero mosque" is getting on my nerves. I really don't think I could say this any better than Keith Olbermann, so I'm adding a video. Watch it. Get your friends to watch it. Yes it is 12 minutes long. It's worth it.
This issue with Americans being so tragically anti-Muslim makes me sad. It makes me sad, because this is EXACTLY what America is about. Freedom. And no, we don't have all our freedoms, and no, we don't have true equality, but FREEDOM OF RELIGION is one thing we do have. It is constitutional and it is right and it is indisputable that each person, in this beautiful country of ours, has the right to practice whatever faith they feel best supports their spiritual life. The fact that the majority of these soon to be picketers claim to be Patriots, makes my heart hurt. If you would take away the Muslims' right to build places of worship, you must then take away our first amendment right to free religion and also free speech. It baffles me that no one seems to see that. Freedom for some is freedom for none. It is a joke, a way for governments to placate the majority by throwing golden veils over their eyes. So long as the rights of some are not equal to the rights of others, we are a country ruled not by democracy but by a government which has its own agenda in mind, and to hell with the people who are its citizens. The more freedoms we give up, the more power we forfeit. This is how democracies crumble, and this is how genocide starts. To think it is right with God to plant bombs in Islamic centers or that you are being a Patriot by harassing some poor child who wants to play basketball at Park 51 is to claim Hitler as a Christian and his doctrine as a noble political stand.
The truth is that Hitler WAS a Christian. He spread fear and then made people love him by twisting parts of the Bible to make uneducated people think he was one of the good guys. Hitler's men all thought that God wanted them to rid the world of Jews, and to start up a new race which would be superior and thus closer to God. They thought they were clearing the world of people God did not want.
Hitler was a Christian, but did people put bombs in Catholic churches? Or picket outside of Protestant community centers, or demand the government interfere in the building of Christian schools, claiming these would be places for Nazi training??
People forget that the Holocaust didn't happen all at once. It took years of planning, and years of brainwashing a people too eager to blame an "other" for what had happened to their economy. But the Jews in Germany were German citizens just like their Christian counterparts were citizens who later allowed them to be tortured and killed by the millions. Muslims in America are Americans just like you. And unless we realize what we're doing and stop, our own Holocaust is just around the corner.
Osama bin Laden and Sadam Hussein are no more Muslims than Adolf Hitler and Mussolini were Catholics.
Don't let ignorance and fear rule your lives. Educate yourself and form your own opinions, because we have the freedom and the right and the opportunity, in this Country of ours, to do so. Not following the lies of those in supposed power, and standing up for Freedom - in all its forms, and for all people - are the most Patriotic things an American citizen could do.
This issue with Americans being so tragically anti-Muslim makes me sad. It makes me sad, because this is EXACTLY what America is about. Freedom. And no, we don't have all our freedoms, and no, we don't have true equality, but FREEDOM OF RELIGION is one thing we do have. It is constitutional and it is right and it is indisputable that each person, in this beautiful country of ours, has the right to practice whatever faith they feel best supports their spiritual life. The fact that the majority of these soon to be picketers claim to be Patriots, makes my heart hurt. If you would take away the Muslims' right to build places of worship, you must then take away our first amendment right to free religion and also free speech. It baffles me that no one seems to see that. Freedom for some is freedom for none. It is a joke, a way for governments to placate the majority by throwing golden veils over their eyes. So long as the rights of some are not equal to the rights of others, we are a country ruled not by democracy but by a government which has its own agenda in mind, and to hell with the people who are its citizens. The more freedoms we give up, the more power we forfeit. This is how democracies crumble, and this is how genocide starts. To think it is right with God to plant bombs in Islamic centers or that you are being a Patriot by harassing some poor child who wants to play basketball at Park 51 is to claim Hitler as a Christian and his doctrine as a noble political stand.
The truth is that Hitler WAS a Christian. He spread fear and then made people love him by twisting parts of the Bible to make uneducated people think he was one of the good guys. Hitler's men all thought that God wanted them to rid the world of Jews, and to start up a new race which would be superior and thus closer to God. They thought they were clearing the world of people God did not want.
Hitler was a Christian, but did people put bombs in Catholic churches? Or picket outside of Protestant community centers, or demand the government interfere in the building of Christian schools, claiming these would be places for Nazi training??
People forget that the Holocaust didn't happen all at once. It took years of planning, and years of brainwashing a people too eager to blame an "other" for what had happened to their economy. But the Jews in Germany were German citizens just like their Christian counterparts were citizens who later allowed them to be tortured and killed by the millions. Muslims in America are Americans just like you. And unless we realize what we're doing and stop, our own Holocaust is just around the corner.
Osama bin Laden and Sadam Hussein are no more Muslims than Adolf Hitler and Mussolini were Catholics.
Don't let ignorance and fear rule your lives. Educate yourself and form your own opinions, because we have the freedom and the right and the opportunity, in this Country of ours, to do so. Not following the lies of those in supposed power, and standing up for Freedom - in all its forms, and for all people - are the most Patriotic things an American citizen could do.
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