Homophobia??

[OrphanPip]

Well we've just recently gotten our first openly gay provincial premier in Canada, Kathleen Wynne. At the federal level there is one gay cabinet minister in the Tory cabinet (John Baird), but he keeps very quiet about his transparent closet because there is still a strong social conservative contingent of the Tory caucus. Political enfranchisement is a big part of identifying real acceptance and inclusion in society. However, I have reservations about the liberalizing, assimilationist agenda, because I feel it is more about rearranging who the oppressors get to be rather than fighting that oppression. Shifting the burden of marginalization onto an ever smaller segment of the community (drag queens, trans, polyamorous, different aged partners, the HIV positive) so that those who can fit into the new normal can enjoy the privilege of displacing their aggression onto the vulnerable. Eh, I trouble myself too much thinking about these issues.

[Hayden]

The world feels like it is becoming more homophobic or less homophobic or No change.

That reminds me of a Mitch Hedburg joke:


"I was in a death metal band once. People either loved us or they hated us... or they thought we were okay."

[allin4oral]

definitely feeling more homophobic