In times of old, The Furies protected Mother Right. If a mother (or any woman) was harmed, The Furies swooped down and took their vengeance. They were one of the last vestiges of a world that existed before the patriarchy. When we feel righteous anger, it is The Furies who are calling out to us to make what is wrong right again.

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Anti-Gay Phone Company 

"Hello, did you press one to indicate you're against same sex marriage?"

"So if I press one it'll eliminate same sex marriage?"

I just heard a real phone call between Eugene Mirman and a telemarketer for an anti-gay phone company. It's funny—and terrifying. Listen to these three phone conversations and be astounded. The woman on the other end of the phone just thinks it's great when Mirman (tongue-in-cheek) says he wants to crush gays with the fist of god. She reports with horror that some other phone companies "train" their employees in the gay lifestyle. Give me a break! I will say once again that I just do not understand this strange obsession by conservatives with "the gay and lesbian lifestyle." Their focus on what other people do in the confines of their own homes is perverted, don't you think? Hey, you, it ain't something you can catch. Really. I wish it were. Maybe then you'd all loosen up a bit. Maybe if you all had some normal loving—and by normal I mean loving, consensual, and passionate—you'd focus more on your own freakin' lives!

OK. Just had to get that out of my system.
Posted by: Kim Antieau / 6/09/2005 02:44:00 PM
3 comments

3 Comments:

Gah! People! Growing up, I once had a friend of a friend over at my house and she was afraid to sit on the furniture for fear of catching my mom's lesbianism...

By Blogger TurtleHeart, at 8:49 PM  

It's a miserable wretched thing. . . but most of all, conservatives' fear of homosexuality saddens me. Only a matter of time before I leave this narrow-minded rural Midwest for a more liberal area out west. Just can't stand it!

By Blogger tangerland, at 9:09 PM  

Unfortunately, I'm not sure the West is all that much better--unless you go to San Francisco or Seattle (kind of) and Portland. (But I haven't lived in the Midwest for 25 years, and when I did, I lived near Ann Arbor, so we were all Rebel Yellers.) I think we just need to take back our country EVERYWHERE. Don't let bigotry stand whenever and wherever we see it, hear it, experience it. Nice blog, by the way.

By Anonymous Kim, at 4:40 PM  

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