I saw it. Judging by the e-mails, many of you did as well. Let's not give him the attention he's so desperately seeking or offer various reasons he is acting out. (It's obvious why.) Let's instead revist Friday's snapshot:
The left is huge. It includes the group that votes blindly for the Democratic Party and think partisanship is being political. It's not. Parroting is not political. Then you have Democrats who can self-criticize but can't see too much beyond domestic issues. You've then got Socialists, Communists, Socialist-Democrats and then you're moving into the hard left which probably takes you all the way to anarchist which wraps around to the right wing because politics is circular and not linear.
Historically, on the left, we have not supported gay rights. The Communists in certain eras especially did not want to support gay rights. Occasionally, an individual would get support but that support was always tentative. Look at Walter Jenkins, embraced by the partisans and seen as a genius in certain ways. So they all pretended he wasn't gay. But then he gets arrested in 1964 and they're afraid that it could harm LBJ's re-election chances so they turn on him and sacrifice him while LBJ lies and pretends like he never knew Walter was gay (he knew, the FBI knew, the 1959 previous arrest was not a secret) and starts trying to save his own ass by lying and suggesting that mean Republicans must have drugged Walter's drink and that, as a result of being drugged, Walter found his mouth watering for dick and, due to the drugs, ended up at a YMCA bathroom where he was busted with his mouth around a cock.
Now back then, and this is an important point to grasp, oral sex wasn't thought to be as common as it is today. Marlon Brando infamously posed with Wally Cox's penis in his mouth and people act like it didn't happen even when writing Brando's obituaries. Marlon was one of our finest actors. His affairs with men didn't make him any less great. And that Wally Cox photo is a striking image.
But in the 50s and 60s, for many, anything beyond missionary-position male-female sex was time to clutch the pearls. (Though, traditionally, look at the studies, anal sex has always been popular among Catholics in the US as a way to prevent pregnancy.)
These days, straight couples peg. These days oral sex is common and noted as such. Tossing someone's salad, etc, etc.
So when an idiot starts talking about orifices and their 'true' intentions -- as many did on message boards this week in light of the shooting -- they look like idiots and defeat themselves. We've come far enough to be honest about sex and how sex can take place and those trying to police what they pretend is morality lose any argument right at the get go because this isn't the 1950s. We know what our bodies are capable of and we know about enjoying our bodies.
Nancy Friday, Dr. Ruth, Audre Lorde, Dan Savage and many others have done their part to allow us to be grown ups.
And this has impacted politics -- as it should. Awareness and education in any area has impact on other areas. You can go into a whole spheres of justice argument off that -- though I wouldn't because Michael Walzer ripped off the Torah for his argument and didn't even grasp the importance of the sphere of din -- telling -- and proof of the points we're making because din, of course, can be associated with the feminine and the feminine and LGBTQ+ issues have traditionally been dismissed in this country -- especially in this country's political maneuvering.
If you know the left's history, you know that Sly's "Everyday People" wasn't just a popular song, it was a portrait of our history:
There is a blue one who can't accept the green one
-- "Everyday People," written by Sly Stone, first appears on Sly & The Family Stone's STAND!
We hear the Jimmy Dore's insist that identity politics are destroying the left.
No, identity politics are what made the left. It's what forced the Communist Party to move beyond their limited White world and to give support to efforts to end lynchings in the US. It's what brings us together when we can get over our own pig headedness. When we can embrace the blue one and the long hair and the poor one and everyone. It's how we build a society and it's how we've always built a movement.
So today, a Communist in the US felt the need to issue a video. Ty rightly responded in a comment not long ago to the hideous video.
But this is what I was talking about on Friday. "We need to get along with our enemies because we're all workers and this is about economics."
If all today is for you is economics then you're pretty damn lucky and should probably shut your damn mouth.
I'm sick of this and we've always been sick of it. Decades ago, Ellen Willis was calling this crap out. But these men never learn. They think their penis gives them the final say.
They also think that, in 2022, we need their thoughts on a 1960 film that apparently gave them a woody and he's embarrassed by that as well.
He should be embarrassed about many things -- his inadvertent hard on being the least of them.
In 2022, transpersons are regularly murdered. As Elaine noted, four men decided to beat up on a gay couple for the crime of 'holding hands' and the gay couple were beat so badly that they ended up in the hospital but the four criminals only got probation.
B-b-b-but we have to come together as workers!!!!
F**k you and your stupidity. The right to work is something that they're trying to take away from the LGBTQ+ community. I'm sorry -- though not surprised -- that you're too historically ignorant to grasp that.
It's because you are so unconcerned with anything that doesn't have something to do with you.
You really should be ashamed of yourself and I'm going to go ahead and name him: Caleb Maupin.
Now, Caleb, I defended you regarding your spanking fetish. I don't share that same fetish but that didn't mean I should shame you for it. I'd still defend you for it.
But I'm not defending your stupidity.
You are woefully under-educated and, sadly, that's true of too many straight men whose ego stroking by the mass media for decades has led them to wrongly believe that they are the norm and that they are the only ones that matter.
That is, after all, why all this time later, their efforts at big tent are still with straight, White men on the right and why they insist that we ignore the right-wing hatred of women and of abortion rights and of this and that and everything that doesn't effect their lily White lives.
In 2002, Rosie O'Donnell had to fight Florida's adoption laws. Why? Anita Bryant and the hatred she stood for. They did a lot of damage and it's still felt today.
And don't think 2020's BOSTOCK V CLAYTON COUNTY protected everyone from being fired if they were gay because it didn't. In addition, Alito's minority opinion was over 100 pages. Don't think he's not planning -- with Clarry Thomas -- to revisit that.
Workers! scream the Caleb brigade of Communists.
But some of them are not concerned at all whether LGBTQ+s have the right to employment or the right to public accommodations.
Caleb needs to educate himself. His stupidity makes him a danger to himself and others.
It's really sad and telling that these men (and women who feel the need to suck up to the men in power) are always willing to break bread with right-wingers who have hatred for people of color, LGBTQ+s and women but they're never willing to work to recruit from the left.
And it's not one aspect of the left. After the 2004 elections, moose-something Democrats emerged calling for the party to stop supporting abortion rights. We'd have a better party, these assholesm like Chris at the thankfully forgotten INTERESTING TIMES, insisted.
We need to take a hard look at what's really going on and we need to challenge the stupid like Caleb to do better. He has no history of the LGBTQ+ struggle and he really needs to immediately rectify that glaring ignorance.
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