oh my, i actually went out and DID SOCIAL THINGS on saturday...
went to steph's to play games - we played a couple different versions of Mystery Rummy - very cool. crossing my fingers that she actually implements her idea of another games night - the once a month lesbo games night on friday just doesn't totally fulfill my desire to hang out with spiffy people and play board games....
later in the evening, it was off to Michelle's, to watch the L Word - she invited a bunch o lesbos over to see the L Word marathon that she had on tape. i've been recording them all on my PC, but realized that the DVD players around the house won't play DVD-R's, so i need to buy a more modern DVD player before i can watch stuff that i burn onto DVD-R's. as for the show...it's interesting, i suppose. doesn't hold a candle to Queer As Folk, but it's got some good lines and that lesbian visibility thing is always good - maybe the straight people will learn a thing or two...*shrug*
hafta post more later...
Saturday, March 06, 2004
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Ian McKellan, quoting Thomas Jefferson on Bill Maher's show
saw a rerun tonight of the Feb 27 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher - Ian McKellan was on and discussion of gay marriage was a major topic...McKellan mentioned a quote from Thomas Jefferson that i think bears repeating (even though, as Maher pointed out, Jefferson was bangin' his slaves)...
"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as manners and opinions change, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
now, i've heard it mentioned in several places about all the benefits that married people have because of marriage - literally THOUSANDS of benefits. perhaps it's because i've never been married myself, but i can't see that - thousands?? what are these benefits? i know that being able to add a spouse to your insurance and appoint them as the person to decide whether to end your life support are such benefits, but what else?
regardless of what these benefits are, and the fact that i don't know what they are, i do know one thing: married people don't deserve them. seems to me that the government is giving preferential treatment to people that get married, and i don't think that's right - marriage is a religious/spiritual union, and should be treated as such - it has no place in our government.
another topic frequently discussed: the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution - shouldn't that trump any sort of amendment banning gay marriage? or shouldn't it just mean that marriage shouldn't have anything to do with the Constitution, and if a married person has the right to put their spouse in charge of medical decisions, then an unmarried person should have the same right to name a person in a similar situation?
i guess the more that i think about it, the more i find myself annoyed with the whole gay marriage thing - it seems as though we're selling ourselves short in asking for the same rights as heterosexual married couples. instead of saying "hey, i'm gay and my girlfriend and i want to get married so we have the same rights as you hetero married people" shouldn't we be saying "everybody deserves the same rights and treatments by the government, regardless of their marital status"?
*shrug* it sucks that this is brought up in an election year to divide the country and try to make us forget that Dubya has totally fucked up this country in so many ways. let's discuss it when everything isn't so fucked up and people can be a bit more rational and level-headed.
"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as manners and opinions change, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
now, i've heard it mentioned in several places about all the benefits that married people have because of marriage - literally THOUSANDS of benefits. perhaps it's because i've never been married myself, but i can't see that - thousands?? what are these benefits? i know that being able to add a spouse to your insurance and appoint them as the person to decide whether to end your life support are such benefits, but what else?
regardless of what these benefits are, and the fact that i don't know what they are, i do know one thing: married people don't deserve them. seems to me that the government is giving preferential treatment to people that get married, and i don't think that's right - marriage is a religious/spiritual union, and should be treated as such - it has no place in our government.
another topic frequently discussed: the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution - shouldn't that trump any sort of amendment banning gay marriage? or shouldn't it just mean that marriage shouldn't have anything to do with the Constitution, and if a married person has the right to put their spouse in charge of medical decisions, then an unmarried person should have the same right to name a person in a similar situation?
i guess the more that i think about it, the more i find myself annoyed with the whole gay marriage thing - it seems as though we're selling ourselves short in asking for the same rights as heterosexual married couples. instead of saying "hey, i'm gay and my girlfriend and i want to get married so we have the same rights as you hetero married people" shouldn't we be saying "everybody deserves the same rights and treatments by the government, regardless of their marital status"?
*shrug* it sucks that this is brought up in an election year to divide the country and try to make us forget that Dubya has totally fucked up this country in so many ways. let's discuss it when everything isn't so fucked up and people can be a bit more rational and level-headed.
Monday, March 01, 2004
the oscars...
woo hoo - Charlize Theron won for Monster. i think she definitely deserved it. i've been hearing more and more about how people are pissed off about the movie and how it's not very accurate as far as being "based on a true story", but looking at it as just a movie reveals a very intensely emotional piece of work.
for everyone else out there that thinks Charlize is hot, here's a link to pix of her nude scenes in movies - Not Safe For Work, obviously. *8-)
i liked Sean Penn's WMD comment - it's cool that he had the balls to make a political comment off the cuff like that, i think. he acted very well in Mystic River, but i must say, that movie is WAAAAY overrated - i kinda hafta wonder if it wouldn't have been as hugely received if it didn't have the "Directed by Clint Eastwood" tag on it.
for everyone else out there that thinks Charlize is hot, here's a link to pix of her nude scenes in movies - Not Safe For Work, obviously. *8-)
i liked Sean Penn's WMD comment - it's cool that he had the balls to make a political comment off the cuff like that, i think. he acted very well in Mystic River, but i must say, that movie is WAAAAY overrated - i kinda hafta wonder if it wouldn't have been as hugely received if it didn't have the "Directed by Clint Eastwood" tag on it.
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