RNC

[chaine-maille.livejournal.com]

I stayed up for Rubio's and Romney's speeches on Thursday night - very motivating, I thought.

Anyway. It always aggravates me how so many of my friends lump all Republicans together as bigots or Bible-huggers and such. It's rude and it's not necessarily true and after reading offensive posts about all republicans being against women's rights and welfare (although I'm sure they weren't meant to be really offensive, but I find them very in-your-face) I have trouble falling asleep!

So this occurred to me:

It seems to me (and I'm doing a bit of generalizing here, mind you) that liberals have nice ideals - they want everyone to have enough of everything, they want everyone to get along, love each other, save the planet, etc.

So do republicans! Except our method of achieving that ideal doesn't take the easy road. It'll take time and for awhile it might hurt. But you can't jump to the final goal without trudging through the hard stuff.

If that makes sense? It makes more sense in my head than when I wrote it out here... Also, this is my first post here, I'm just tired of thinking to myself in a den of liberals that I can't talk to.

Comments

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Being a slash fan does not mean you can not be homophobic. Slash and Yaoi are often fetishizing portrayals of male homosexuality done in order to get heterosexual women off. Many fans of both yaoi and slash are homophobic as liking the festishized portrayal of homosexuality doesn't neccessarily lead to the tolerating and appoval of actual real homosexuals.

This attitude is one of the more annoying traits of the yaoi fandom. I've seen a lot of them talk about Japan as if it's Gay Utopia (newsflash: it isn't) simply because lots of yaoi stuff gets published there and there are overt hints of boy/boy relationships in mainstream shows.

I mean, at least the fratboy douchebags who watch Girls Gone Wild don't make themselves out to be allies in the fight for lesbian rights. :P