IPW

Bigot Me This

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/arts/television/22grey.html?em&ex=1169701200&en=58979726a56f5515&ei=5087%0A

So read that article and you will be caught up on who said what to who and why and oh my god!! Um, and its in the New York Times, not 'People'. Or "Flash" or "DumbAss" of any of those insipid magazines that dote on the moronic activities of morons. I think there is a good reason it's in the Times though. It is really about Racism and Homophobia. Its about the power of insult now, vs. 30 years ago. You see, this article makes me feel extremely positive.

In the seventees, gay people were not only discriminated against, but they were beaten and killed. Granted there are still bigots aplenty, but society in large has taken such a massive shift that the use of a certain three letter word that describes both a bundle of sticks and insults gay people has reached the (im)moral equivalency of the N word. At least judging by the fact that this article never mentions it. Peel the onion back a little and you'll note that I can't even bring myself to write the N word, not that I want to. 40 years ago, I wouldn't have thought twice (while, um, blogging in my own head)

No matter how down you get about bigots in this world, just do a little time traveling. Ask yourself to go back to the sixtees or seventees and picture the fear and apprehension that millions of minorities had even just being themselves. That's the uplifting part of this story, that the country is now coming down on the perpetrator of the "F" word. (To differentiate F words, this F word will be called F3) That the New York Times has jumped on the bandwagon of denunciation is just another sign that somehow, someway We are headed in the right direction.

This is not to say that people do not live in fear today. Of course they still do. But I honestly feel that the communities they are afraid of are now in the minority themselves, and getting smaller with every article like this written.