Chris

tigtog at Hoyden About Town reposts this list:

Notice: To all those who think Homophobia is wrong and want to fight for a better future for our gay and lesbian friends, please repost this:

• I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
• I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
• I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
• We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
• I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
• I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
• I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
• I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
• We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
• I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
• I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
• I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
• I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
• I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
• I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
• I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
• I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
• I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
• I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
• I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

Via tigtog at Hoyden About Town:

*dies of squee*

There are more men in kilts (including Jack Harkness and the Doctor as played by Tom Baker) at that link.  *fangirl*

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

* Where's My Extra Piece of the Pie? Wherein which Anna at Feminists Don't Bake Bread defines privilege in a clear, easy-to-understand method.  Specifically, she discusses the difference between privilege and rewards, since people tend to confuse the two.  She does not, however, have pie.

* Twisty at I Blame The Patriarchy has a new FAQ about MRAs.  (I still want to know why bitter men can generalise about all Feminists, but god help me if I talk about statistical things regarding men.  I doubt I'll ever get a good answer to that.)

* Hugo discusses the pressure between advertising's take on feminism and the patriarchy.

* Lauredhel posts about attacks, emotions, and logic.  I say now that, naturally, logic isn't the sole province of men, just as emotion isn't for women.  By which I mean to say, duh.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.