2005-02-06 
 

ernie and bert are at it again

Forget about our dear president and his recent comments about the Defense of Marriage Act. I want to talk about what's really important: Cartoons!

Been a lot of hubub lately about what a pervert Sponge Bob must be for holding the hand of another boy. And that Postcard From Buster show on PBS that just got delayed by my old hometown station due to the utterly shocking content of a family with two mothers. What is the world coming to?

I hearby charge all parents of young children to begin teaching them how to throw stones at anyone different from them. Different is BAD. In fact, maybe they better start by using me for target practice. After all, I'm one of those evil gays out to disturb everyone with my mere existance.

Rocks aren't the worst thing you can do to me though. The worst thing you can do is to shove me back into the closet by not acknowledging my right to live, and that's what seems to be happening lately. I urge parents to see past the social stereotyping and not hide gays and lesbians from their children. We're discriminated against because certain people see only the sexual aspect of our lives, and not the genuine love that exists and is the mainstay of most longterm relationships I've known. That's true for both heteros and homos I've known. In fact, if we turned the same single focus on hetero stories, Romeo and Juliet would be banned as pure perversion and the family friendly sitcom would be seen as anything but. (All those cutesy couples, living together in the open like that...horrifying! I mean Rob comes home and KISSES Laura every night. Children don't need to see that.)

Looking at things in that light makes it almost funny, but I don't feel like laughing anymore.

Labels: rant

* posted by me at 12:41 AM

Comments:

Okay, fine. I'm losing my mind to the blogspere!

-Michael

# posted by Michael : 5:48 PM, February 06, 2005

 

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