Miscellaneous

"Family Values" Groups Out of Touch With American Families

Posted on June 04, 2008
This week, the Family Equality Council was kind enough to contact me to write a guest post on the group's blog. Take a gander at this group's website and blog. As an organization working to ensure equality for LGBT families, this group serves an important role in validating "non-traditional" families and countering the idea that heterosexual nuclear families are automatically superior than every other family form...

Benefit #10: Name Changes

Posted on June 03, 2008
This article is part of my running series documenting the legal, financial, and economic benefits and protections of civil marriage. While I do not think that marriage is the most important "gay issue," I write this series to demonstrate that the denial of marriage equality has real, tangible, and unfair consequences for gay and lesbian couples...

My Life: Spring 2008

Posted on June 02, 2008
Today is Blog for LGBT Families Day. The point of this blogging day is to honor and indicate that not all families fit the one father and one mother model. For many reasons, I don't often blog about my personal life. Yet, many of the topics I write about affect my life as a gay person in some tangible way...

Random Fun Shoutouts!

Posted on May 30, 2008
1. Feminist Law Professor Ann Bartow deserves a shoutout for compiling various articles regarding The Sexism in the Democratic Primary. Even to many of us who voted for Obama, the overt sexism and misogynistic comments directed at Clinton have been disturbing, distasteful, and indicative of how feminism is still relevant...

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"Deep" Thought #14: Children of Gay Parents are "Robbed"!

Posted on May 30, 2008
I simply love it when the bigotry that is always brimming just below the surface of one authoritarian homophobe's every writing rears its ugly head. Recently, in his article discussing the importance of genetic counseling in cancer screening, our always-respectful-and-definitely-not-bigoted buddy "On Lawn" threw in this gem:"Children who are robbed from part of their heritage so that two mommies or two daddies can pretend to be a complete marital unit might not have that benefit...

Dog Poop Awards

Posted on May 29, 2008
One of the... "fun" things about writing a blog is that you encounter all sorts of people and internet personas. I have written before about the internet fuckwad phenomenon whereby anonymity plus audience magically turns "normal" people into fuckwads...

"Deep" Thought #13: Re-Naming Marriage

Posted on May 28, 2008
Now that heterosexuals in California have to share marriage with gay and lesbian couples, some sore losers want to take their ball and go home. The always-entertaining bigot Jose, for instance, decides that no, the word marriage isn't so important after all...

Girl Too Good for the Boys

Posted on May 28, 2008
In hilarious sports' news, Jaime Nared, a 12-year-old girl, was banned from the boys' basketball team for being too good. As FOX sports reports, she had been playing on this team since second-grade but "curiously, the timing of her ban came in the wake of a 30-point effort against an all-boys team...

Whistle Blowing or Windmill Fighting?

Posted on May 27, 2008
Today, I want to take a brief moment to thank WorldNetDaily for so reliably being on the constant lookout for danger to Society, America, the Family, and the Children. I myself am part of society, America, and a family, and so it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside knowing that my being is safely nuzzled within the vigilant watch of WorldNetDaily...

Danica Patrick's Skillz

Posted on May 26, 2008
Kudos to sportswriter Ian O'Connor for saying this:"Danica Patrick will not change the world by winning the Indy 500. She will change it by becoming an agent of reform, by using her victory to convince men to start measuring a woman by her skill instead of her bra size...

RightWing Roundup #6: Conservative Hate, Slippery Slopes, and Paranoia

Posted on May 23, 2008
1. Being Peaceful is, Like, So ImmatureIf you remember, my biggest qualm with Washington University in St. Louis' granting of an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly is not because she espouses anti-feminist views, but rather because she perpetuates an angry, divisive, us versus them, simplistic way of thinking that distorts feminism rather than informs...

Real Life Affirmative Action for Boys

Posted on May 22, 2008
Time magazine had an interesting editorial recently regarding the "gender gap" in college education. In it, the author discusses how as the numbers of women entering college has outpaced the numbers of men, colleges have begun admitting less qualified men over more qualified women...

Stuff Lesbians Like Alert

Posted on May 21, 2008
Not to brag but my latest addition to Stuff Lesbos Like is up.

And You Too Can Be a Useless Politician!

Posted on May 21, 2008
Walter Bayes, a 70-year-old "retired blue-collar worker" running for a seat in the Idaho House of Representatives, has odd priorities. For instance, in his campaign literature he wrote:"It is absolutely wrong to force any student to share the same bathrooms and showers with homosexual teachers or students...

Breakable Literal Bible Rule of the Week: Soothsaying

Posted on May 20, 2008
One time, I went to Provincetown for a vacation. Being from a small town in the Midwest, Provincetown was quite the change of scenery for me. For those of you not in the know, there are a great number of.... fortune-tellers in Provincetown.Back when I went to this charming city by the sea, I was not as concerned with living a holy life as I have been in recent days...

A Note on "Activist Judges" (TM)

Posted on May 19, 2008
One can pretty much guarantee that 90% of those blathering in the bigotsphere about the recent California marriage decision have not actually read in any great depth the actual opinion. In their heads, all they know, hear, or say is that because of "activist judges" who overturned "the will of the people," gay people won a culture battle in California...

The Marriage Debate: On Relevantly Framing the Issue

Posted on May 16, 2008
In honor of the recent California marriage decision, I think it is a fitting time to re-visit this particular debate. This California opinion[PDF] was particularly interesting as this case took place in a state relatively accepting of equal rights. California law, for instance, already afforded essentially the same legal rights and benefits of marriage to same-sex couples that it granted to opposite-sex couples...

Book Review: Feminism & Religion

Posted on May 15, 2008
Reading about religions, their histories and the methods of studying them, is sort of a hobby of mine. The latest book I have read in this genre, Rita Gross's book Feminism & Religion, was the exact mixture of scholarship I was looking for in a book about religion...

Lesbian Recruiting Activity Alert: Grace the Spot

Posted on May 14, 2008
I am honored to announce that Grace Chu, webmistress of Grace the Spot (of "Stuff Lesbians Like" fame), has asked little old me to join the Grace posse and contribute to the site. I will still be regularly ranting writing here in Fannie's Room, of course...

RightWing Roundup #5: Psychics, Herbs, and Homo Militias

Posted on May 14, 2008
1. Call Now For Your Personalized Psychic Reading!WorldNetDaily commentator David Kupelian wrote an "interesting" article predicting with absolute certainty the chaos that will ensue upon Mrs. Bill Clinton's presidential victory. Within this article, Kupelian discusses the "sins" of Bill Clinton, the eveel-ness of liberalism, and a magical theory whereby the president is the "father" of our nation whose actions "invisibly shape the character and worldview of the country, with a particularly profound effect upon the young, since they are the most impressionable...

Phyllis Schlafly's Feminism: Good Enough For Her, But Not For Other Women

Posted on May 13, 2008
I was perturbed upon learning that one of my alma maters, Washington University in St. Louis, is about to bestow an honorary doctorate (in Humane Letters!) upon the anti-feminist, anti-gay Phyllis Schlafly at this year's commencement ceremony. I suppose it's only fitting that shrill NBC commentator Chris Matthews, who has a pattern of making sexist comments when referring to women, will deliver the commencement address and also receive an honorary degree of his very own...

And Gracefully and Grandly... Gracefully and Grandly

Posted on May 12, 2008
Apparently, part of the WNBA's new player orientation now includes instruction on the very important basketball topic of how to apply makeup. It's sort of a new strategy to make men interested in the WNBA because, you know, God forbid men view female athletes as athletes rather than babes...

Sally Kern, "Truth," and the Culture Wars

Posted on May 09, 2008
I'm going to jump right into this article with a statement of the obvious: The recent threatening and name-calling emails that Sally Kern has received in response to her recent "gays are worse than terrorists" rant are wrong. Assuming the emails are legitimate (Kern reported them as "death threats," but investigators reported that they were not), they are wrong on a personal level with respect to Sally Kern's humanity and they are problematic with respect to the struggle for equal rights...

Asinine Doods and Female Athletes

Posted on May 08, 2008
I found this story to be uplifting. "With two runners on base and a strike against her, Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University uncorked her best swing and did something she had never done, in high school or college. Her first home run cleared the center-field fence...

"Deep" Thought #12: The Importance of Fatherhood

Posted on May 07, 2008
The same thing that makes lesbian parenting wrong is what makes gay dad parenting so, so right. See, growing up with a father is really important. Since growing up with a father is really important, it's even better for a child to grow up with two fathers...

RightWing Roundup #4: Agendas, Last Days, and Fascists!

Posted on May 07, 2008
1. Wait, Who Has an Agenda?We hear all the time about the sinister Gay Agenda where homosexuals seek to take over all of our important institutions and pretty much run the world. Thankfully, Janet Folger from the Christian Worldview Network has a agenda plan of her own on how to win this culture war...

Politicians, Primaries, and... Can This Be Over Already?

Posted on May 06, 2008
A few weeks ago, I was going to do a little blog recap from yet another Obama/Clinton primary battle but I bored myself before I even started writing the post.See, I was really into the primaries during the weeks leading up to Super Tuesday. Now, not so much...

The Language of Bigots: Some Greatest Hits

Posted on May 05, 2008
One thing I have noticed during the course of reading anti-gay writings is the.... odd and unintentionally humorous language that bigots use when describing gay people and the dreaded gay agenda.After a recent example of this I thought it would be most prudent to make a list of some of these "Greatest Hits" in the Language of Bigots...

RightWing Roundup #3: "These" Feminists, Incompetence, and Omissions

Posted on May 02, 2008
1. Who Exactly Are "These" Feminists?Read hater-of-women-who-distinguish-themselves-from-doormats Rush Limbaugh's latest asininity:"[Y]ou have to understand the mindset of a lot of these feminists and women. They think they're owed this -- just like Obama supporters think they're owed this...

Mingly Seeds: Breakable Literal Bible Law of the Week

Posted on May 01, 2008
In our secular society in which all religions are valued, it is of the utmost importance to follow the laws of the Bible. We all know that one man shall not lay (or is it lie?) with another man and all that. And further, as Focus on the Family tells us, "It is intellectually dishonest to say conservatives 'interpret' such verses out of prejudice against homosexuals...

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