Miss California Controversy (from Rumours)

[sparky]

Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

Sparky--I strongly agree with the majority of your post, but I think another problem hindering the gay rights movement actually lies in what I've quoted. For many, hatred of gay men is really little more than an expression of misogyny. Your phrase "nothing more than a woman..." although certainly not intended to be sexist, cuts to the heart of the matter.

Judith Warner recently wrote a very interesting article on the topic that can be found here:

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...u-calling-gay/

I had read that, Willow. You have a point about the misogyny extension. There is really no doubt that much of the opposition to gay rights is rooted in something akin to misogyny. There is still, and I believe always will be, a strong current of disgust and hostility
expressed toward men who reject traditonally "masculine" bearing and behavior.

It is an extremely complicated subject. I can see both sides of the argument when it comes to the issue. For the sake of brevity that is all I am going to say about it.
The scope of that goes way beyond the topic of this thread.

The whole Prejean thing for me is part of a much bigger picture.
This incident is of interest to me because it draws attention to the larger cultural argument.

On a much more vast scale, and to address the Obama angle that has been brought up, I am furious at and disgusted by Barack Obama.

I was never much of a supporter. I never bought his act. Hope and Change, my ass. My vote for him was really a vote against McCain, and that backwater cut rate brunette Barbie doll Palin.

History may prove me wrong, and it would be a welcome surprise if it did. However, as it stands, he has turned out to be a lying manipulative SOS when it comes to DADT and DOMA. It appears that he pandered to the homos, took the money, and is tossing us under the bus. Just like Clinton did. Could he be putting off the real action until his potential second term? Perhaps. But the real fact is that ending DADT would cost him zero political capital. Even a majority of conservative christians support ending the policy. A policy, btw, that is costing our near bankrupt country millions and is likely even costing lives of our service men and women. Can our military afford to be kicking out dedicated soldiers when we are fighting what amounts to 2 wars? I don't think so.

He just doesn't have the guts. And that is the real letdown. Let me clarify again - I never had much faith in his propaganda in the first place. But this proves to me that Obama the candidate and Obama the president are two very different things.

So as I have said to others, f*ck that shape shifting, yellow bellied
half breed mother****er. I wish he and his wife's nasty assed underbite would have stayed in Chicago.