Here's a thought: if you are against gay marriage, don't marry a gay person.
Have you seen that horrific video about the gay storm coming? (Stephen Colbert nicely mocked it on his show.) It deserves to be mocked. If these so-called "Christians" would stop using the bible to deny consenting adults their equal rights and focus on being actual, tolerant, compassionate Christians, they might brush the fog from their eyes (storm pun!) and see that the real threat to marriage - gay or straight - is domestic violence and irresponsible adults who raise irresponsible children.
Do you know why some believe that gay marriage "threatens" straight marriage? Because once gay marriage is legalized, some closeted people will realize their marriage is actually a sham. They'll think, oh, no! All this time, and I could have just married a man/woman!
Here's a stupid little parody I found:
Monday, April 20, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
I just want to say a tiny little thing about the whole, sudden "Susan Boyle" thing that's going around from Britain's Got Talent. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, please look up the video, and come back and read my wisdom here.)
So, B.G.T. totally sets up her performance they way shows like that often do: Look! Weird, not very attractive woman is going to sing! And she thinks she's going to be awesome! Ah, hah hah hah! She's totally going to bomb, and we will all laugh and laugh and laugh. Then: she starts to sing, and... it's not horrible. The audience goes wild. Suddenly, she goes from being a potential laughing stock to everyone's best friend.
To Ms. Boyle's credit, she is pretty good. I'm glad she's being heard on the show, and good for her for having the courage to get up there and sing at all. But here's the deal. This incident could be used in college courses as an example of how shallow our society really is. Perhaps that's a sweeping statement, as reality shows are not "society" at large, but given how everyone since is passing around that video and gawking at it, I just have to group it all together. As a singer, I have seen and heard the most amazing voices come out of the most unlikely of candidates, if you will. It's true that you cannot judge a book by the cover. But doesn't the whole thing seem patronizing? She does not sing amazingly, first of all. She sings well, but there is tension and her breath is short. What? Hey, she's a singer, and she's due for some constructive criticism. This is not a mentally handicapped person we are listening to. And that is precisely my point. Everyone is hailing her as some kind of phenomenon, but she's just a lady who happens to sing well.
The judges were especially stupid about it after her performance. The guy (not Simon) said this was his "biggest yes" or some such nonsense, and the woman judge actually had the gall to remark how "everyone was against [her] at first, but now everyone loves [her] and wasn't it unexpected?" At least Simon had the decency to say tongue-in-cheek that he fully expected her to be wonderful and she was.
So, Ms. Boyle: good luck to you. I hope you go far and get some much overdue attention and singing work, and...etc. But please do not take their crap. You are awesome because you are you, not because you are "special." You know what I mean?
So, B.G.T. totally sets up her performance they way shows like that often do: Look! Weird, not very attractive woman is going to sing! And she thinks she's going to be awesome! Ah, hah hah hah! She's totally going to bomb, and we will all laugh and laugh and laugh. Then: she starts to sing, and... it's not horrible. The audience goes wild. Suddenly, she goes from being a potential laughing stock to everyone's best friend.
To Ms. Boyle's credit, she is pretty good. I'm glad she's being heard on the show, and good for her for having the courage to get up there and sing at all. But here's the deal. This incident could be used in college courses as an example of how shallow our society really is. Perhaps that's a sweeping statement, as reality shows are not "society" at large, but given how everyone since is passing around that video and gawking at it, I just have to group it all together. As a singer, I have seen and heard the most amazing voices come out of the most unlikely of candidates, if you will. It's true that you cannot judge a book by the cover. But doesn't the whole thing seem patronizing? She does not sing amazingly, first of all. She sings well, but there is tension and her breath is short. What? Hey, she's a singer, and she's due for some constructive criticism. This is not a mentally handicapped person we are listening to. And that is precisely my point. Everyone is hailing her as some kind of phenomenon, but she's just a lady who happens to sing well.
The judges were especially stupid about it after her performance. The guy (not Simon) said this was his "biggest yes" or some such nonsense, and the woman judge actually had the gall to remark how "everyone was against [her] at first, but now everyone loves [her] and wasn't it unexpected?" At least Simon had the decency to say tongue-in-cheek that he fully expected her to be wonderful and she was.
So, Ms. Boyle: good luck to you. I hope you go far and get some much overdue attention and singing work, and...etc. But please do not take their crap. You are awesome because you are you, not because you are "special." You know what I mean?
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