VA: A Letter to All First Time Black Voters and to Everyone Else Who Gives a Shit About The Irony of Equality:
Nov 17th, 2008
(8 votes, average: 2 out of 5)
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Guest Writer: Dame B.
Hello and congratulations. Congratulations on being a part of the decision that made this nation move well and with style. Yeah, I’ll feed the stereotype, we do […]
Original post: A Letter to All First Time Black Voters and to Everyone Else Who Gives a Shit About The Irony of Equality:
I’ll give it a thumbs down. I am so worn out from all the politics of the last few months, and this particular topic holds no interest for me at all, since I am not gay, (and since I left college) don’t know anyone who is anymore. It isn’t a topic that is near and dear to my heart, so the last thing I want to do in my free time is read a blog where someone is practically shouting at me that we’re on the verge of enslaving gay people. Perhaps she might try again with a better topic.
I’m guessing form your name that you are a woman? Man or woman doesn’t really matter. Because, if you are heterosexual, you can marry the person you love. Automatically, if you outlive your spouse, you will inherit his or her possessions. That isn’t the case when it comes to domestic partnerships. A gay couple has to pay a lawyer to write up the appropriate legal documents to insure that a couples’ wishes are carried out, after one dies. When my partner of eleven years died, I couldn’t even qualify for the measly $255.00 survivor’s benifit from the government. We also had to pay to have a will drawn up just to guarantee that his family wouldn’t try and take half of our property! This was something he was more concerned about, than I, because it had happened to him in the past. How many heterosexual couples do you know who have had that happen to them?
My response was for the remark from Jana. Forgot to point that out.
Listening to someone whine is uncharacteristic of V. Major thumbs down. If guest writers are just going to rant about their life is unfair, that’s even worse than having nothing to read at all.
This was a well-written piece that points out the irony in the fact that, on the same day the country takes a major step forward in electing the first black president, we also approved taking basic rights away from people. While it’s easy to say that just because you aren’t gay or you don’t have any gay friends that this issue doesn’t affect you, I think we all have a responsibility to stand up for what is morally right even if it doesn’t directly impact your life. For many this is just political rant, but imagine how it feels for gays in California who woke up November 5th to find that the majority of people approved of taking away their rights. And what about the gay couples who were previously married and now must wait to see if their marriages will be invalidated just because other people don’t approve of them being together? To them this isn’t just some ideological battle. It is a major aspect of their life.
Directed @ Bill: The will issue seems minor. I am straight and married, and I still went to an attorney and drew up a will. In my experience, most responsible people (who have assets) do that- not just gay people. And while it is true when you die if there is no will, things would default to a spouse, the money, like a stock portfolio for instance goes to whomever you would name as a beneficiary- a will is not necessary just for that. But what I am getting at is that I have done due diligence with having a will despite my married status (and many people do) and I am not sure that this is such a big deal to whine about HAVING to do when you are gay. It isn’t like ONLY gay people have to do this. It took a week for the lawyer to draw up, 2 minutes for me to sign, and that was it. No big deal.
Personally I wish the government would stay out of relationships all together (gay or straight), it isn’t their business. I think it is a bad idea to give tax breaks just because your married or because you have x number of kids. If your going to give tax breaks, spread it to everyone who pays tax. But that is another topic I suppose. Maybe one Bill might even agree with me on. Worth a shot anyway.
Looks like Kyle up there is the only one who understood the post.
I vote for asking this author back, and I think this piece was absolutely in line with V’s ideology. Plus this blog has a large readership and people need to hear this stuff. Why are we quibbling over assets when the core problem is that some people are validated by society in a way that others are not - based only on discrimination?
Well, I wasn’t hating it right up until the part about how “we” should support gay people now because “we” may want to use them for our own agenda somewhere down the line. Not that we should support them because the right to marry should not be dependent on sexual preference but just because they have a lot of money and power and “we” may want to use that later.
Seriously, there have got to be better writers out there
That writer was boring, unimaginative, and uncreative. It just wasn’t very good. Let’s hope the next one will be better.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. One huge leap forward, one crashing fall backward.
The writer makes decent points and I tend to agree but I didn’t just sit down to The Huffington Post with a cup of freshly ground Fair Trade coffee.
Sardonic humor is a gift and the way V. shoves a fist up the ass of humanity is a thing of beauty. One wicked grin did not arrive upon my face as I read this post and in the end that is what I come to this site for.
A misanthropic goddess she be and all that anger and sarcasm is well placed in a world that makes you want to run to the hardware store for a suitable length of rope.
I missed that this was from a guest writer at the top and didn’t catch on until I hit the wall of text at the bottom. That did a lot to explain why I took no pleasure in the reading and wondered several times along the way where V’s typical bite and humor and well-reasoned logic had gotten to. I don’t always agree with V - but even when I don’t, reading her work doesn’t leave me feeling like I’ve wasted my time on a pointless diatribe.
This is a letter to black voters. I’m with Kyle and Esther. The writer is making a point that black California voters made huge progress at the polls for Obama but at the same time denied the rights of their gay neighbors. As far as the note at the end, Donna, I think that was an honest appeal with a little stereotype humor intended to encourage black voters to support civil rights (gay rights or not). It made me think about the irony and I’m appreciative for that.
It’s real easy for to blame the blacks, here, huh. Never mind that religious people voted against gay marriage more reliably than any ethnic group. I know proportionately more blacks go to church than pinks, but, seriously, why is it okay for people to attack a whole segment of the population based on genetics and not based on a choice like church?
Race is the one thing that you can count on. No matter what your accomplishments or lack there of, people will always notice your race. People are attracted to the like. Too many people feel too naturally comfortable with their own race. It closes there mind many times to what other people have to offer. There are beautiful people in all shades. You just hope that the bigger picture is still something to look at.
Caleb
Blueprint Economics
its refreshing to hear that im not the only who finds equality imbalanced as hell
I can agree on the points, or maybe I don’t. I do, but it doesn’t matter. I enjoy V. Occasional guests are also worth reading and following links to their own blogs, but this was slam poetry. I just don’t like it. It’s not the only way to address an issue. What’s going to speak to me and how I like it spoken isn’t easily defined, but it’s not going to be slam poetry. I like V most of the time. She says she’s not a great writer, but she knows how to drive a point, abrasive, imperfect, true to life no b.s. Some may infer that I find it difficult to confront the issues, and that slam poetry is designed to make it difficult to ignore, which I guess is why it’s so annoying. That I’d prefer no slam poetry to slam poetry potentially engages some friction due to my perceived privilege, to tell someone how to talk, and to react negatively to an entire cultural art form. What else can I say. Writers can’t impose on anyone to like how they write. I apologize to the author if she did not intend her written words to come out in my head as slam poetry.
The idea of the post, I completely agree with. I was in shock when I heard Prop 8 had passed; in California of all places. The writing, however, was blah. Grammaticaly correct, but no different from the other million billion political blogs out there. If I read this post on a random blog I visited for the first time, I would not come back.
Oh, I got the post. It was just so poorly written. So, so very badly written. I kept falling asleep mid-paragraph and getting distracted. This is a topic I care deeply about (and in fact support what the writer points out!) and the writer made me bored to the point of distraction?! There should be some kind of award for that. Just hard to read, almost hideous. This person probably considers themself a writer, sadly. Thoughts were so poorly organized, it’s like a first draft. Hell, it’s like a brainstorm scribble. We need little bubbles and arrows to make sense of it.