Happy thought
Friday, April 27, 2007
... walking into the LS today for my last class I was stopped by a fellow student.
"OMG you are thin!" she said.
Apparently this working out and eating right shit IS paying off.
posted by ZEUS @ 11:09 AM, No comment,
Rant...
So, often in the mornings, I listen to Cosmo radio on my commute around town. On my way from home to the law school, the conversation turned to making marriages work. The suggestion, "if you happen to be poly-amorous, embrace it." That's right, take a weekend occasionally and agree to sleep with other people. This, they said, is saving marriages.
WTF!!!??! In a society where I cannot get married because the population believes me to be poly-amorous, simply because I am gay, I cannot get married. I cannot get married because, as the story goes, I cannot commit to one person. This is despite my 6 year commitment to one person. Apparently there is a hypocritical threshold that I was previously unaware of: get married, then be polyamorous. The reverse would just be wrong!
This just goes to prove that marriages have very little to do with religion. Its religion that tells us we cannot be polyamoros. Yet polyamorous persons can still enjoy the benefits of being married, they can still have every civil legal right, they can even still go to their church - they just have to make sure both parties agree. Must be something else at work here.....
.... like discrimination.
posted by ZEUS @ 10:55 AM, No comment,
Confused
Monday, April 23, 2007
In my time here at the University I have been, as most of my readers know, in the queer activist culture here. I spoke on many panels, presented safe zone sessions, and even entertained a class or two on my own. One of the perpetual questions that comes up is my take on the "that's so gay" phrase that many youth seem to be comfortable with. My response to those who challenge the anti-GLBT statement has always been, "ask them what makes that drinking fountain, locked door, or other general disappointment gay... make them think about what they are saying." Well today, I was put in a position to say something myself, but then something weird happened. The dialogue went like this...
From behind me in the hall: "That test was the queerest thing I think I've ever taken."
I my head: "Do I confront this? Does he really mean that? Does it matter? I identify as queer. I didn't spend 4 hours in high heals and a dress last Saturday to have someone belittle me now. I am going to say something."
Just before I turned around I heard him say: "No really, after that test I totally feel like having sex with another man has some merit."
Now, I am just confused. I said nothing. I just wandered off to my study area thinking...
What is this test? Can I get this test and administer it to a larger population? Purely for valid scientific purposes - of coarse! I need to know if the effect is replicable.
But seriously, I decided not to say anything because he did realize what he was saying. And really, I wasn't offended. I might be later, who knows. There are certainly other ways to take his comment. In the end, what I have been asking people to do for the last 6 years is to know that what they say has a meaning. To hear someone acknowledge that meaning without being confronted. The realization that someone did just that feels really good.
posted by ZEUS @ 10:17 AM, No comment,
Random Back-ish-ness
Sunday, April 22, 2007
This morning I am vegging out and resting for, what seems to be, the first time in 2 months.
I am caught up on the blogs that I follow regularly, and even some that I do not.
I am actually posting my own words, not a lame-o link to someone else's work.
I still want the Zamboni.
Time to get ready to go eat with some friends I have not seen in ages. ("Ages" is far longer than the amount of time since my last meaningful post.)
My world is oddly at peace - only 2 papers due in the next week and I am on final revisions for both! W00T
It is beautiful outside. Must go with the running and frolicking out-of-doors today.
posted by ZEUS @ 9:52 AM, No comment,
One More Reason
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
TO BUY A ZAMBONI
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17930215/
posted by ZEUS @ 12:20 PM, No comment,
