More "Wife Swap"

[judecorp]

I was about to start yet another journal entry with "Okay, so..." and then I realized that I do that far too often. You'd never know I was a smart kid back in the day because it sure doesn't show! Oh well.

Tonight's "Wife Swap" really blew me away. I mean, I don't even know what to say. I guess I live in a plastic kindness bubble where people just don't treat people that way, you know? Especially when she and her husband went on about how their spirituality was all about honoring people and caring for them. Gah. I just can't imagine.

I don't expect the whole world to agree with me but I don't expect the world to treat me like crap either. I have always been so shocked whenever anyone ever yelled anything at me out of a car window or treated me poorly in some way. And I still remember acutely how sad and hurt I felt when Ohio passed Issue One by such a large majority because it felt like a serious and personal smack in the face to me, since I'd devoted so much time and energy to serving my community there.

And I'm a pacifist, but by the gods, if anyone ever ever EVER spoke about my Jennifer that way I think I would claw their eyes out. (Or at least pout a lot and get really mad.)

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I can adequately paraphrase it. But this one lesbian swapped with a conservative woman and everyone was (mostly) polite to everyone, but at the end when they all meet up to talk about the experience, the conservative woman ripped the lesbians new assholes, basically telling them that they were depraved, that they were shacking up, that they weren't a real family, that they were inappropriate to expose to children, and that she felt it was immoral to put a lesbian in a house near her 12-year-old daughter because she could have been preyed upon.

Wow, longest sentence ever.