Nov 7, 2012
AirBuddy commented on Taking Whatshertits to Another Level: Ben Beres's Print Is Cut from a Show at Cornish.
AirBuddy commented on Taking Whatshertits to Another Level: Ben Beres's Print Is Cut from a Show at Cornish.
Jun 26, 2012
AirBuddy commented on Occupy Occupies an Artist's Unoccupied Home.
AirBuddy commented on Occupy Occupies an Artist's Unoccupied Home.
Please please please explain the context of your commentary! Journalism 101 etc.
Jun 22, 2012
AirBuddy commented on Is Gay Queer?.
AirBuddy commented on Is Gay Queer?.
Really? This piece irked me on so many levels. Especially when compared to Christopher Bram's concurrent piece that covered much the same terrain of the 'assimilation crisis' without as much of Halperin's essentializing and Utopianism.
I mean, I'm as sorry as anyone that people seemingly aren't reading Mawrdew Czgowchwz and Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots, but yeah, if I have to hear queerness or gay culture compared to "surfaces" or "indeterminate signifiers" (Warhol's fucking glitter Shoes) one more time I'm going to smash a keyboard.
Aaaanyway, my takeaway:
Old hipster academic upset that gay men aren't identifying purely through structuralism anymore.
I mean, I'm as sorry as anyone that people seemingly aren't reading Mawrdew Czgowchwz and Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots, but yeah, if I have to hear queerness or gay culture compared to "surfaces" or "indeterminate signifiers" (Warhol's fucking glitter Shoes) one more time I'm going to smash a keyboard.
Aaaanyway, my takeaway:
Old hipster academic upset that gay men aren't identifying purely through structuralism anymore.
Jun 13, 2012
AirBuddy commented on By Josh Weed's Logic....
AirBuddy commented on By Josh Weed's Logic....
@61 Umm. I think you may be reading way too much animosity into the criticism of Josh Weed. Far from "crucifying him" I think the general response, from Andrew Sullivan to Dan Savage, has been highly qualified support. Gay people are (by long practice) highly sensitive to the personal becoming all too easily political; it's only natural that the same intense scrutiny is going to be applied to this case as well.
Given the audacity and off-putting boastfulness of Weed's claim to know that his marriage "has resulted in us having a better sex life than most people I personally know," I think this particular attack on his post and its logic was justified. Take your example of the bicurious-or-whatever lesbian who called in to the podcast. As I recall she never boasted that the incongruity between her identity and her attractions made her somehow more authentic or just. She seemed genuinely and sadly worried about the judgement of others, and Savage attempted to affirm to her, much like what for the most part people are doing to Weed, that hey, whatever makes you happy, and fuck the haters. The difference being here that Weed's post is filled with so many little dog-whistling barbs that the whole "judge not lest ye be" clauses are deeply and very much invoked.
Aaaand, as for the probable real root of the matter of why we're here: Savage's feelings towards some of the major church structures. That's something that seems pretty well established, and all the NOM money about to flow into WA isn't going to help anytime soon. But, hey look,the bigger, ostensibly anti-gay fish to fry that also floated in over the weekend.
(Also, "agenda?" Are you going to go after Goldy with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion next?)
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Given the audacity and off-putting boastfulness of Weed's claim to know that his marriage "has resulted in us having a better sex life than most people I personally know," I think this particular attack on his post and its logic was justified. Take your example of the bicurious-or-whatever lesbian who called in to the podcast. As I recall she never boasted that the incongruity between her identity and her attractions made her somehow more authentic or just. She seemed genuinely and sadly worried about the judgement of others, and Savage attempted to affirm to her, much like what for the most part people are doing to Weed, that hey, whatever makes you happy, and fuck the haters. The difference being here that Weed's post is filled with so many little dog-whistling barbs that the whole "judge not lest ye be" clauses are deeply and very much invoked.
Aaaand, as for the probable real root of the matter of why we're here: Savage's feelings towards some of the major church structures. That's something that seems pretty well established, and all the NOM money about to flow into WA isn't going to help anytime soon. But, hey look,the bigger, ostensibly anti-gay fish to fry that also floated in over the weekend.
(Also, "agenda?" Are you going to go after Goldy with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion next?)
Jun 12, 2012
AirBuddy commented on By Josh Weed's Logic....
AirBuddy commented on By Josh Weed's Logic....
@59 Despite the foul language I wouldn't classify this as a personal attack. Following up on the whole "logic" thing referenced in the title, this would really be an example of Reductio ad absurdum. It can be a cruel technique, for sure, but then, ummm, why exactly are you reading Dan Savage? If you didn't expect him to be calling bullshit on ideas he disagrees with? He's sort of opinionated, you may have noticed.
Jun 12, 2012
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
@122 My god you're right!
"It must be against it!"
"It must be against it!"
Jun 12, 2012
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
@100 ftw ftw ftw. OK gotta quit the trollin'
Jun 11, 2012
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
@90 et. al
Waaait, whaaaat? The "religious liberty" argument, that churches are going to be somehow compelled to perform ceremonies of which they disapprove, has been shown time and time again to be a lie and craven scare tactic. So far Catholic Churches haven't somehow been forced to marry divorcees who haven't annulled their previous marriages, nor any other religious institution compelled by the state to perform ceremonies against its beliefs, no matter how retrograde.
This is not a valid argument against gay marriage. In fact, recently religious liberty has been invoked as an argument in support of gay marriage; religious figures who actually desire to perform gay marriage ceremonies have sued or otherwise petitioned the government on those grounds.
Furthermore, you might want to research the legal differences between civil unions and marriage in the US to understand why this seemingly piddling semantic difference is so important: http://www.now.org/issues/marriage/marri… . It's a short, short overview, from the type of site Julia Stiles would want you to go to! Just think of it as hand-fasting with knowledge!
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Waaait, whaaaat? The "religious liberty" argument, that churches are going to be somehow compelled to perform ceremonies of which they disapprove, has been shown time and time again to be a lie and craven scare tactic. So far Catholic Churches haven't somehow been forced to marry divorcees who haven't annulled their previous marriages, nor any other religious institution compelled by the state to perform ceremonies against its beliefs, no matter how retrograde.
This is not a valid argument against gay marriage. In fact, recently religious liberty has been invoked as an argument in support of gay marriage; religious figures who actually desire to perform gay marriage ceremonies have sued or otherwise petitioned the government on those grounds.
Furthermore, you might want to research the legal differences between civil unions and marriage in the US to understand why this seemingly piddling semantic difference is so important: http://www.now.org/issues/marriage/marri… . It's a short, short overview, from the type of site Julia Stiles would want you to go to! Just think of it as hand-fasting with knowledge!
Jun 11, 2012
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
@81 Thanks! Ugh. Fucking Gawker. Here's what I assume is his answer to a gay marriage question:
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The_Weed @Rich Juzwiak 3 days ago REPLY
I guess I can say three things: 1. I want people to feel loved and accepted. 2. I have what I consider to be legitimate fears that when marriage equality is finalized (and I think the times indicate that it is only a matter of time until that happens), there will then be religious persecution when religious institutions want to opt out of providing same-sex marriages because of their doctrines. Because this nation was founded, in part, by those seeking religious freedom, that seems rather foreboding to me. But I'm no political scientist and wouldn't claim to be. 3. Ultimately I suspect the solution would be some kind differentiation between marriage as a religious rite and civil unions as a binding legality, for everybody and not just gay people. I don't know if clean lines could be drawn though. I think we kind of messed things up in the beginning by having religious marriage and legal union so intertwined. I think that everyone should have the advantage of civil unions. I think that marriage as a religious rite should be governed by religions themselves.
Ultimately, I just want a scenario where nobody feels discriminated against. It's a complex issue. I don't know what the solution is.
Jun 11, 2012
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
AirBuddy commented on Gay Man Marries Straight Woman, Enjoys Fucking Her, Writes Blog Post About It, Internet Explodes.
@62 Aaaaw, did the personal becoming political give you a sad?
Seriously, though, I don't think the important news here is about self-identification, orientation, or splitting hairs over nomenclature. He could call himself two-spirit cactus-souled vulcan for all I care. Nobody is going to hold a Pride celebration for him then or now.
The real point is not harassing him out of a marriage and family arrangement that works for him, but to force him into recognizing the prejudices and assumptions about LGBT people that overshadow his over-ecstatic points on marital bliss.
Seriously, though, I don't think the important news here is about self-identification, orientation, or splitting hairs over nomenclature. He could call himself two-spirit cactus-souled vulcan for all I care. Nobody is going to hold a Pride celebration for him then or now.
The real point is not harassing him out of a marriage and family arrangement that works for him, but to force him into recognizing the prejudices and assumptions about LGBT people that overshadow his over-ecstatic points on marital bliss.
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Ben Beres is employed by Cornish in the Printmaking department. This is missing from Jen's report and makes all the difference.
It doesn't matter if it's Microsoft, Cornish, or a hot dog truck, drawing caricatures of co-workers for public display that cause your co-workers discomfort, no matter your good intentions, constitutes harassment.
Cornish has done the right thing by removing the piece, given that it has an obligation to its employees to create a nonthreatening work environment. Besides, given the controversy it will likely be shown at another venue, any of which would be more appropriate than where these female artists have to show up every work day.