We Exoticize, and then Marginalize...
A friend of mine quickly added (via e-mail) to my last post: "don't forget to add RACIST" to the misogynistic and homophobic undertones of the "dudes" at Deadly Vipers.He sent me this link, which includes an incredible segment of a lecture on the way we continue to marginalize anyone who is "other"...Here's the second. It's even more shocking. You should watch them both...
Looking for "Manswers?" No thank you...
No message in this. Just the sort of slick, hip, homophobic, misogynistic garbage that passes for "Relevant" Christianity today.From Deadly Viper on Vimeo.Their actual website, and manifesto = horrifying.I'm so glad I'm a sissy.
Psalm 32:3 (my bones wasted away)
"When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long."- Psalm 32:3Last night I began a conversation that I should have had years ago. Like the psalmist, I had bottled up my feelings and allowed it to eat away at me and loved ones. In my heart, I wanted vengeance or justice too badly to seek resolution.I'm not sure what the writer of Proverbs meant when he wrote, "Better is
Naomi Wolf: The End of America
Just watched the documentary based on Naomi Wolf's book The End of America. Many of you will find little here that is surprising, but the film is powerful and disturbing. Wolf presents information that most of us are at least partly aware of in such a compelling way, it's worth watching even if you already have a clearly-developed opinion on the Bush Administration's practices and
Ebert: On Festering Anger
Yup, I'm really enjoying Roger Ebert.In this post, he talks about the dangers of growing, seething social anger on the fringes of the conservative right.What are we to make of the recent suggestion on the "respected" right-wing site NewsMax, later withdrawn, that "it might not be such a bad thing" if the U. S. military rose up and overthrew Obama in a coup? That sort of talk belongs on a
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