Politics - Fuck All Lives Matter

Politics - Fuck All Lives Matter

With the recent spate of news regarding "Black Lives Matter", there again is the ever present rebuttal that "All Lives Matter." This happens over, and over. It happens with gender, it happens with culture, it happens with religion, it happens with sexual orientation. The thing is, like others have posted, until we started saying #BlackLivesMatter nobody ever said #AllLivesMatter. Until we had #GayPride, there was never a #HeteroSexualPrideDay. #WhiteHistoryMonth sounds ludicrous against #BlackhistoryMonth, and the idea of #MensRights makes us all cringe.

Here's the problem. All Lives Matter, is 'strictly true'. But it's also tone deaf. It's tone deaf because it's not about finding nuance, it's about maintaining status quo. It's about silencing the very real problems people have with what is going on in society right now. GeekAesthete wrote this about why it's not okay.

Thoughts - On Tomorrow

Thoughts - On Tomorrow

It's not enough that when we look at bigots, racists, and the discriminatory that we shake our heads and ponder how they will be on the wrong side of history one day. That day is today. That moment is now. Unless we fight to correct attitudes of belittlement, othering, and discrimination, 'history one day' will always be a tomorrow that never comes.

Reblog - A Gay Dad's Requiem on the Death of Fred Phelps

Reblog - A Gay Dad's Requiem on the Death of Fred Phelps

This is a reblog from http://evolequals.com/2014/03/16/a-gay-dads-requiem-on-the-death-of-fred-phelps/

I have been fighting for LGBT rights for a long, long time.  Fred Phelps was not always in that fight, but it feels like he was.  It feels like he has always been and always will be anti-gay hatred personified.

Soap Box - Ford

Soap Box - Ford

I'm not defending Ford by any means, but every time someone points out the fact that he is fat, as though that is somehow the core reason for his main failing as a politician I somewhat want to throw up.  Our society has made it alright to lampoon him based on his appearance, his level of physical fitness (or apparent lack thereof).