Focus on blind rage

[drwex]

This URL came across on a humor list I frequent:
http://www.focusonyourchild.com/develop/art1/A0000684.html

My reaction wasn't "aren't those fundamentalists funny" but rather "I will now reach out and choke the life out of anyone who messes up their children with this crap." I mean like I want to feel this jerk's windpipe slowly crush under my fingers as his eyes (because I know it was a guy) bug out. It was a bit startling to experience that reaction.

I guess it's part of becoming a parent. I am watching my own children play around with gender, roles, and identity. I and they know other kids who wear whatever clothes they please, have hair whatever length they please, and often they're able to identify and freely express their emotions. Sometimes they roughhouse and other times they don't like it and would rather sit and make pretty pictures. THIS IS GOOD! Hello? Important! DO NOT MESS THIS UP, YOU NARROW-MINDED FRIGHTENED DOGMATISTS! Most especially don't get your crap on my kids.

Sometimes the heterosexual agenda depresses me. Today's flavor, I think, is barely suppressed fury.

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[skreeky]

The funny version of this decidedly non-funny point of view is the film "But I'm a Cheerleader!" I highly recommend it. Basically, the girl's parents do an Intervention because they think she might have lesbian tendencies. She really doesn't think she does (hilarity ensues), but they send her to a camp for "sexually confused" teens where she meets up with a lot of wonderful dykes (hilarity ensues) and discovers that they're pretty appealing after all (hilarity ensues). Her parents have managed to bring out in her exactly what they feared, when if they'd not pushed the point she might have just gone with the mainstream flow and never have discovered her own real preference.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I loved that movie. I mean, it had RuPaul as a BOY. :)