What if it was a gay world?

[judecorp]

I receive quite a bit of email from the Human Rights Campaign. Since all of this marriage stuff, I've been receiving more. This is totally fine with me - I actually enjoy reading it, and like to see where they're going with things, and well, I'm lazy and like having random news sent directly to me. Sometimes they have really wacky subject lines. Today's was, "What if it was a gay world?"

In actuality, that's the slogan of a new ad campaign they're beginning where they attempt a little "role-reversal" on opposite-sex couples in order to illustrate marriage benefits. But I got so irritated seeing that in my inbox. "What if it was a gay world?" Well, my answer was, "That would really suck, too."

Because I don't want a Gay World any more than I want a Straight World. For goodness sakes, people, I just want a world with civil rights for all under the law. I wish this wasn't such a polarized "Gay/Straight" thing, because if we could just get off of that for ten freaking minutes, we might actually make progress. Let's not isolate our heterosexual allies, hmm? Let's not let this little smokescreen divert us from the mess that man has made of our economy, our job market, our global image, our military, our schools, and our vocabulary. Sheesh!

I hope this doesn't mean I'll be bitchy all day. Yikes.

Comments

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I believe from now on you can call me "Orange Marmalade." Get with the program.

I think labels are good for people to band together and identify themselves, but it becomes problematic because the labels tend to be based on one aspect of a person, which always leaves things more than a little skewed.