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"..every single one of you are here for the same reason. you're here because you've adopted as a core motivation the simple fact that this world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another"
I'm tired and I'm coming down with a cold, which is why I think my take on Ellen Page's coming out speech is a bit... odd.
The video for today's Communication's Blog can be found here.
I like Ellen Page. Not because of her sexuality. Not because she's a Nova Scotian. I like her because she seems like a nice, decent, down to earth kid.
She did an amazing job at presenting at the Time to Thrive conference. Her words were obviously from the heart and very moving.
But there's a whole bunch of stuff about this that I don't like.
I don't like that there needs to be a Time to Thrive Conference. I don't like the fact that she had to have such negative experiences shape her life. That there are people out there who give a crap, in a negative way, who loves whom. I have friends who have a million different sexualities. Bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual, asexual. I have friends with multiple partners. I have friends with no partners. Who cares? I mean don't get me wrong. I care that you're happy. But why does anybody need to care who's on the receiving end of that?
God love her. I was moved by her speech. I teared up when she teared up. But I HATE the fact that anybody has to care about this. Nobody's standing up and tearing up over their right to be a white heterosexual, married to a white heterosexual with two kids and a dog in a duplex in suburbia. Why not? Because it's the norm. Why can't any relationship that doesn't hurt anybody else be the norm?
My stepmother, who is a Presbyterian minister in the south (Y'all remember my Christmas rant about my father putting the Christ back in Christmas? Yeah? His wife.) posted a link on her the book of Face (which for the life of me I can't find now) talking about how gay marriage will affect heterosexual marriage. I clicked on it with dread, expecting to have a whole lot of eye rolling exercises ahead of me, and was pleasantly surprised to find it was pro-gay marriage.
Ladies and gentlemen, we may be further along the road to progress than I thought.
One can only hope.
I'm tired and I'm coming down with a cold, which is why I think my take on Ellen Page's coming out speech is a bit... odd.
The video for today's Communication's Blog can be found here.
I like Ellen Page. Not because of her sexuality. Not because she's a Nova Scotian. I like her because she seems like a nice, decent, down to earth kid.
She did an amazing job at presenting at the Time to Thrive conference. Her words were obviously from the heart and very moving.
But there's a whole bunch of stuff about this that I don't like.
I don't like that there needs to be a Time to Thrive Conference. I don't like the fact that she had to have such negative experiences shape her life. That there are people out there who give a crap, in a negative way, who loves whom. I have friends who have a million different sexualities. Bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual, asexual. I have friends with multiple partners. I have friends with no partners. Who cares? I mean don't get me wrong. I care that you're happy. But why does anybody need to care who's on the receiving end of that?
God love her. I was moved by her speech. I teared up when she teared up. But I HATE the fact that anybody has to care about this. Nobody's standing up and tearing up over their right to be a white heterosexual, married to a white heterosexual with two kids and a dog in a duplex in suburbia. Why not? Because it's the norm. Why can't any relationship that doesn't hurt anybody else be the norm?
My stepmother, who is a Presbyterian minister in the south (Y'all remember my Christmas rant about my father putting the Christ back in Christmas? Yeah? His wife.) posted a link on her the book of Face (which for the life of me I can't find now) talking about how gay marriage will affect heterosexual marriage. I clicked on it with dread, expecting to have a whole lot of eye rolling exercises ahead of me, and was pleasantly surprised to find it was pro-gay marriage.
Ladies and gentlemen, we may be further along the road to progress than I thought.
One can only hope.
