[Star of Blight]

Well first I would like to preface this with Good Morning (for reference it's 9am here) It looks like a rather nice Thursday morning, I actually managed to not sleep again last night (5th in a row) and I feel rather bad about not putting in my two cents here yet. So if none of you mind I'm just gonna bable and rant a bit. Given the subject I'll probably stop when my fingers start huring (or just plain fall off)

Now in the social circle that I nominally associate with, there's a healthy mix of sexual lifestyles, everything to your rather vanilla straight folks to the chick who likes gay Furry bondage porn. I also happen to have a dispropotionate number of homosexual friends and quite a few homosexual relatives (maybe I have a gay magnet or something). Now, for the most part, I've noticed that people in homosexual relationships tend to be more stable in those relationships, and that homosexual people in general tend to just be better, more social aware and forward thinking people. Granted if I was a member of the most hated minority since Jews in Berlin then I think I would be too. And you've gotta admit, if the "moral majority" in the United States had it's way about it then it would be like Ramses and the Hebrew's all over again. But I digress. Well....sorta.

So we've got alot of generally good, stable and nice people who are wanting equal rights to everyone else, and in the end they aren't getting them because of who and how they fuck and the lifestyle they want for themselves. The government just loves to get in peoples faces about how they should and should not live their lives. Most of it stemming from some moral code that not everyone believes to be proper. And this moral code happens to be supported by the lowest common denominator of the voting public. Yes, I'm talking about the slackjawed fuckwits out there who think Jerry Springer is insightful television, thinks FoxNews Network is unbiased and accurate...that's right boys and girls I'm talking about Joe Average America. Joe, who thinks sodomy should be illegal yet has no problems with drinking a 12 pack of Bud and slapping his wife around. Joe, who has five kids, all of them just as stupid as he is, all of them growing up to be just like him. And Joe isn't just from some midwest of south east state, driving a pickup and wearing a John Deere hat. Joe's also from the suburbs of San Jose, driving his SUV and going to his job as some middle management shmuck. Joe lives in the ghetto's of LA, listens to rap music and likes sportswear and may or may not run with a gang. Joe comes from all walks of life where you find the average and the mundane. This is Joe Average America...and to people who would like to just live their lives and be happy, he's public enemy number one, even though most people don't know it.

Now I'm not advocating that we do something drastic and kill Joe here (even though Joe's responsible for most the crime, environmental distruction, intollerance and hate found in this country) at least....not yet. This wouldn't be a S.O.B. rant if there wasn't threats of bodily harm to someone. But first I would like to point out Joe's big crime in this case, which is intolerance. Intolerance, in my mind, just boils down to one thing though, that being arrogance. Extreme arrogance at that. The belief that you are so morally right, that your opinion is the correct one, beyond reproache, and that anyone who does not agree with and follow your moral masturbation is wrong, imoral, sinfull and going to hell (or what the fuck ever). So Joe's an arrogant motherfucker. Personally I think Joe needs a heavy dose of humility.

Now this could be done many ways. There's the "wear him down" method, which is what people seem to be going with so far. Personally I like the "smacking him upside the head with a sharp brick" method. I don't know about you, but I would be pretty fucking humble....after waking up from the coma that is.

(see, told you there would be threats of violence)

But at the same time, the gay community does a few things to make it hard on themselves as well. Look at me, I'm equal opportunity.

First of all, acceptance comes not by force feeding it to people, but by slipping into the mainstream. Having flaming homosexuals running around in TV giving straght guy's fashion tips isn't exactly helping the "cause", it just makes you look like wierdo's.

Pride Parades, a personal peeve of mine. To quote something I heard on the net one time. "The only thing these parades do is make straight folks think that the S&M rainbow Apocylipse is coming to town" And it's true, not really great ways of getting accepted into the mainstream.

And speaking of rainbows, who thought this was a good idea? Do straight people walk around with t-shirts, bumper stickers, coffee mugs, key chains and pride parades declaring their sexual preference? No, they don't. Do you see people who practice other forms of alternative lifestyles and/or sexualities go on about it as much as you do? No. Well, a select few cummolds do but not the vast majority. Respect is a two way street folks, you have to give respect in order to earn it. And the best way to get respect from Joe Average America is to not force it down his throat but to work your way into it. Yeah it may not happen in your lifetime (unless you force it down his throat, and then you just breed the long lasting resentment that we still to this day see as a result of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's) but it will happen. Give it time people. And this whole bit here brings me to todays word of the day....

dis·creet
adj.
Marked by, exercising, or showing prudence and wise self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect.
Free from ostentation or pretension; modest.

Try using a little discretion now and then, everyone. Again it's a two way street. What people do in intimate situations shouldn't concern us (unless it's actually harmful ie. dangerous to others). Keep your noses out of each others bedrooms. It shouldn't matter what people think is appropreat sex. I tend to like a little kink, I have friends who are heavily into bondage, I have others that are totaly vanilla and as I said before I know a girl who's into gay Furry bondage porn. But it's not our job to police each others fucking. And it sure as fuck isn't our job to rub it in other peoples faces.



Well, I think I'm done for now.