Before I start, I’d like to preface this by saying that
now that it’s no longer an assessment task, this blog is not gonna be just
about library things anymore. If I decide to blog about anything, it will be
about ANYTHING, whether the subject matter be something intellectual, something
fictional, random bitching and moaning, whatever. If you have a problem with
this, instead of complaining about it, please just leave quietly cuz I’m me,
this is my blog, I’m gonna talk about what I wanna talk about and if that’s an
issue for you I will reach through the computer and beat the ever loving crap
out of you. If you have a legitimate problem with the content and would like to argue your case, by all means do that. Just make sure it's a logical and valid point otherwise see above re: reaching through the computer and beating the ever loving crap out of you. With that in mind, if you decide to stick around to read my random
rants about whatever, thank you for reading and I’ll try not to bore you too
much with my INCREDIBLE NERDYNESS AND GEEKITUDE. Also, expect a newfound lack
of formality. For instance, nerdyness and geekitude. NEW WORDS WILL EXIST, I
SHIT YOU NOT. Also swearing, duh.
So, for those of you that have decided to stick around and
read my little-ish rambles and rants, I would like to start with something that
pisses me off to no end: heteronormativity. Yeah that’s right, I can use big
words that exist but aren’t in words spellcheck. Whatcha gonna do about it?
Anywho, heteronormativity. For those of you that haven’t
heard the term and can’t use your epic skills of deduction to figure it out,
heteronormativity is the idea that “people fall into distinct and complementary
genders (man and woman) with natural roles in life.”[i]
That’s the Wikipedia definition, and if you don’t believe me, I’ve at least tried
to include the link in an endnote. I’m not sure if endnotes work with blogger,
but if not I’ll figure something out. But it’s a pretty spot on definition. In
my opinion the only thing it really leaves out is that it includes
traditionally thinking of people as though they were heterosexual. I’m not
saying that this isn’t something that I’m exempt from because I do it too and
it leads to extreme amounts of grrr. It does not make me happy. But it is
maddening. For those of you that aren’t my friend on facebook (assuming anyone
that I’ve friended on facebook is reading this), I recently bought Magic Mike
and the salesperson thought that I was buying it for a girl. Now, it’s fair
enough that I was arguing with my sister about her lack of an income since she’s
too young to get a job or claim youth allowance, so the salesperson may have
thought it was for her. But it bugs me that the assumption would just be made
that I was buying it for a girl in the first place. Is it really that difficult
to believe that I am a raging ‘mo that wanted a peek of Channing Tatum’s abs
while he and several other hot dudes are playing the roles of male strippers?
Cuz I wanted a bit of a peek at various hot dudes playing male strippers. I
like that shit. It’s very pleasant.
In a broader sense, after I come out to someone, I’m
generally told that they didn’t expect me to be a fagatron. Which, on one hand,
yay, I’m less likely to get the crap beaten out of me just cuz I enjoy adult human
male specimens. On the other, bummer, cuz dudes are less likely to come up to
me cuz they think I’ll beat the crap out of them for enjoying adult human male
specimens. And why should we be afraid that that’s gonna happen? It’s
20-fucking-12, nearly 20-fucking-13, and while we don’t have to fear being
prosecuted by the law in most places cuz we like to do other dudes, we shouldn’t
have to be afraid that we’re gonna get attacked for walking down the street and
holding hands with another man. I’ve long since accepted that humans are generally
bastards. I’m also occasionally an idealist. I would think that by 2012 the
LGBTIAQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Androgynous, Queer)
community wouldn’t have to worry about being the next Matthew Shepard. We
shouldn’t have people realizing that they’re gay that take their own lives
because they don’t think that they’ll be supported by friends or family, or
because they’re bullied (in general, not just homophobic bullying), or because
they hate themselves because they’ve been taught that being gay is wrong.
Bullshit. If being gay is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right. Cuz it is
awesome, minus all the fear of imminent homo-cide and discrimination.
Dear lord, I may have gotten preachy. I apologize for that,
if you see preachyness. But I would have gotten around to an “I’M GAY AND YOU
SHOULD ALL LISTEN TO ME” post eventually, good to at least try and get it out of the
way now. For the record, I’m only apologizing for possible preachyness, not the
content of the preachy. Cuz I mean that shit.
