I've tried to wrap my brain around certain things for a long time, and I saw a tweet the other day that made a light come on. I know I've been absent from blogging for a couple of months. A combination of being busy with other things, a fundraiser I'm involved in being a big part of that. But also, it's fair to say my deep dissatisfaction with our country's direction and the societal divide as it has widened and deepened also a big part.
So, back to the topic. I can't remember the way the tweet that made my light bulb go off was worded, but I know what the light illuminated. A big reason for the deepened and widened divide in society is that activism has pushed and pushed and pushed until tolerance and acceptance simply weren't good enough. It is no longer good enough that we tolerate and accept LGBTQ people. It is no longer good enough, even, that we embrace and befriend LGBTQ in society, at work, etc. Now we are expected to defer to, bow down to, celebrate, and proclaim our everlasting support for the LGBTQ community's activist agenda. Not the people. It is not enough to live, work, and play in our communities alongside LGBTQs, now we are expected to be confronted continuously with LGTBQ in media and advertising. Now we are expected to see our own selves differently because to see ourselves as traditional men and women, and as good old fashioned heterosexuals somehow isn't okay because to be so is "exclusive", not "inclusive".
"Birthing parent" in place of "mother".
"People who menstruate" in place of "women".
Cis this, trans that. Give me a fucking break.
Drag queen story hours for kids. Don't fucking deny it, they are around. Drag queens don't bother me. Caroline and I went with friends to a fun drag show in Las Vegas years ago, and to another in Chicago at a friend's nightclub. But putting drag queens twerking in front of kids (I have fucking seen it so don't fucking deny it!) is a goddamned perversion.
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| I know a lot of people whose beer of choice for years has been Bud Light. |
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| How could Anheuser-Busch NOT have seen using a trans person as their new brand ambassador would make Bud Light "Queer Beer" in the eyes of many customers. |
Anheuser-Bush made a big mistake by adding Dylan Mulvaney as it's now brand ambassador and advertising campaign focal point. For me personally, this didn't move my needle a whole lot. I really couldn't give two shits that Bud Light has a trans person (is this a trans-man or a trans-woman, I really don't know). But the broader push back, to me at least, is totally understandable. You've got biological men winning women's sporting events. That's a joke and an injustice, You've got biological men dressed as women on the President's Cabinet (one of whom was stealing luggage from airports!). You've got a biological man being selected as "Woman of the Year". You've got the aforementioned reluctance to use the terms woman and mother. Any person who is offended by the words mother and woman can kiss my ass. Get a fucking grip, dumbass. Motherhood is sacred. If not in a religious sense, certainly in a cultural and societal one. Womanhood has come a long, long way in the last 150 or so years. Equal rights, voting, advances in education and the workplace. Now they try to make "woman" a dirty word because a biological man who swears to actually be a woman in every way except physically and genetically feels bad when we use the term. It makes them feel "left out". Well, I am sorry you feel left out, but women are still women, no matter what you are. Don't you dare take it away because you're jealous that you don't have it.
And that brings me to gay rights. I have said many, many times I have no problem with someone who's gay. Who you love is your business. I accept it and will treat you with the same dignity and respect I do everyone else.
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| Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' bill doesn't ever say "don't say gay". |
"Don't say gay". Never mind that the bill doesn't say that. What it does is restrict kid's teachers from using the classroom to advance the LGBTQ agenda with young, impressionable kids. What it did was require that those subjects be handled in an AGE APPROPRIATE manner. But activists portrayed the bill NOT as protecting young children from being indoctrinated by left leaning teachers fully on board with the LGTBQ activist agenda, but rather as homophobic and hateful. Look, activists on the other side called anyone in support of the agenda "groomers". I don't think that's right, either. Don't get me wrong, I think the law is and was the right thing to do, but I don't think every teacher and other person who opposes it are groomers. It's shit like this coming from both sides that pushes us apart.
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| Disney, long a bastion of LGTBQ folks, decided that as a corporation, it would meddle in Florida politics and law. |
Disney took sides against millions of parents, and millions of Florida voters who don't buy the LGTBQ activist's characterization of the law as "Don't say gay". No. Disney came out and said they would fight to have the Florida law overturned. Luckily for Floridians, we have a Governor who is more inclined to support Florida Parents and Florida voters than he is to be a slave to Disney dollars. Disney has had an incredibly good tax situation in Florida, one that was predicated on the value and revenue Disney brings to our great state. Now they're going to pay their fair share like everybody else. Disney, listening to their activists, decided they could bully Florida.
Disney and Anheuser-Busch both made the same mistake. Fatal? I don't think so. But it was a mistake. They decided that tolerance and acceptance were not good enough. They treated anything less than embracing the activism as bigotry. By putting their brands proudly under the rainbow LGTBQ flag, they decided than any one of us who is the least bit uncomfortable standing under it in unity with activists is a bigot. It was a stupid mistake that didn't at all help the LGTBQ agenda and cost both companies quite a few bucks.
I'm tolerant of LGTBQ people. I accept LGBTQ folks as my equal. I have no problem with the people and their love and lifestyle choices. That being said, I reject the activist agenda that expects all of society to be molded in ways more to the LGTBQ activist agenda's tastes and preferences. I reject it. If that makes me a bigot in your eyes, I can live with that. That's your problem, not mine.
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