Things I probably shouldn't be posting, but am.

I am going to give very little context for most of these, so... yeah. If you want context or explanation, I can give it and maybe I'm wrong and you can tell me why. But right now I just feel like spitting out a lot of random shit off the cuff. There are a couple of you who sometimes comment on my LJ because you think I'm missing some perspective that I need to be considering (and actually intend to offer it for my benefit), and I love you guys. There are some of you who agree with these things but don't really say so, and.... yeah, you're all right. And there are some of you who press these buttons repeatedly. Comment if you want, but I might ignore you.

1. I love abortion. My mother could have aborted me, and while the circumstances of my conception are none of your goddamned business, most of you would agree if I explained why I think she had the right. I'm glad she didn't, but it causes me no anxiety to know that I was only born because she wanted me.
2. I love divorce. Divorce has been a major source of freedom in my family. I don't want one but the instant I do, the option had better be there.
3. I think Libertarians, by and large, should just come out of the anarchist closet and get it the fuck over with.
4. American Conservatives place more faith in the mythical "free market invisible hand" than they do in Jesus (the only practical difference being that Jesus fed the poor and the "invisible hand" doesn't).
5. I would like to hear a strong anti-immigration stance that did not eventually boil down to "White Americans Good; Colored Foreigners Bad."
6. I love religions, but seldom do I love "religious people," because as Stephen Prothero put it (and you can see this on my blog sidebar), being "religious" generally just means you think you have the right to all sorts of opinions on other people's sexual habits.
7. The internet is not different from "real life." It's real, all right, even if it's not proximal.
8. I think lists are fun, but often overused. Like this. This is terrible.
9. I didn't choose to be straight, but I wasn't born with a sexual orientation either. Tidy glib little answers like those probably don't help anyone, so everybody just shut the hell up and stop worrying about how the gays got gay. They're people. It's okay. Get over it.
10. Sexism isn't less sexist if you sometimes also slur genders other than cis women. Racism isn't less racist if you include those who aren't the most common targets. Injustice doesn't become more fair with repetition. Just more comprehensive.
11. Conflict resolution only works with rational people. With people who aren't rational, just dump them as quickly as possible once you learn this about them. If they want life skills, they can either get a therapist or start writing you checks for your time.
12. Rooster Cogburn should have used his real first name. It's perfectly respectable and I like it fine.
13. Men's fitness magazines present just as warped a relationship to food as women's mags.
14. Honoring same-sex marriage (either secular ones or the rites of religions like mine) doesn't infringe on the freedom of American Christians to dehumanize gay couples. Guys, no one can ever make you stop... just... drain you of members until you die a slow death drowning in your own pettiness.
15. Fuck Nascar and the Indy 500. Let me spoil it for you: THEY TURN LEFT.
16. If something here upset you, you probably didn't read this far. If you did, though, I bet you're already preparing how best to punish me for going off half-cocked and smearing my filth all over your friends-list. 

We're not supposed to post these things because they're "flame bait." Well, whatever. I've got a lotta prickly ornery bullshit building in the back of my blackened liberal soul, and I thought I'd post this rather than unleash my semi-coherent thrashing fury on the next person to hit a pet peeve.

Things I probably shouldn't be posting, but am.

I am going to give very little context for most of these, so... yeah. If you want context or explanation, I can give it and maybe I'm wrong and you can tell me why. But right now I just feel like spitting out a lot of random shit off the cuff. There are a couple of you who sometimes comment on my LJ because you think I'm missing some perspective that I need to be considering (and actually intend to offer it for my benefit), and I love you guys. There are some of you who agree with these things but don't really say so, and.... yeah, you're all right. And there are some of you who press these buttons repeatedly. Comment if you want, but I might ignore you.

1. I love abortion. My mother could have aborted me, and while the circumstances of my conception are none of your goddamned business, most of you would agree if I explained why I think she had the right. I'm glad she didn't, but it causes me no anxiety to know that I was only born because she wanted me.
2. I love divorce. Divorce has been a major source of freedom in my family. I don't want one but the instant I do, the option had better be there.
3. I think Libertarians, by and large, should just come out of the anarchist closet and get it the fuck over with.
4. American Conservatives place more faith in the mythical "free market invisible hand" than they do in Jesus (the only practical difference being that Jesus fed the poor and the "invisible hand" doesn't).
5. I would like to hear a strong anti-immigration stance that did not eventually boil down to "White Americans Good; Colored Foreigners Bad."
6. I love religions, but seldom do I love "religious people," because as Stephen Prothero put it (and you can see this on my blog sidebar), being "religious" generally just means you think you have the right to all sorts of opinions on other people's sexual habits.
7. The internet is not different from "real life." It's real, all right, even if it's not proximal.
8. I think lists are fun, but often overused. Like this. This is terrible.
9. I didn't choose to be straight, but I wasn't born with a sexual orientation either. Tidy glib little answers like those probably don't help anyone, so everybody just shut the hell up and stop worrying about how the gays got gay. They're people. It's okay. Get over it.
10. Sexism isn't less sexist if you sometimes also slur genders other than cis women. Racism isn't less racist if you include those who aren't the most common targets. Injustice doesn't become more fair with repetition. Just more comprehensive.
11. Conflict resolution only works with rational people. With people who aren't rational, just dump them as quickly as possible once you learn this about them. If they want life skills, they can either get a therapist or start writing you checks for your time.
12. Rooster Cogburn should have used his real first name. It's perfectly respectable and I like it fine.
13. Men's fitness magazines present just as warped a relationship to food as women's mags.
14. Honoring same-sex marriage (either secular ones or the rites of religions like mine) doesn't infringe on the freedom of American Christians to dehumanize gay couples. Guys, no one can ever make you stop... just... drain you of members until you die a slow death drowning in your own pettiness.
15. Fuck Nascar and the Indy 500. Let me spoil it for you: THEY TURN LEFT.
16. If something here upset you, you probably didn't read this far. If you did, though, I bet you're already preparing how best to punish me for going off half-cocked and smearing my filth all over your friends-list. 

We're not supposed to post these things because they're "flame bait." Well, whatever. I've got a lotta prickly ornery bullshit building in the back of my blackened liberal soul, and I thought I'd post this rather than unleash my semi-coherent thrashing fury on the next person to hit a pet peeve.

Things I probably shouldn't be posting, but am.

I am going to give very little context for most of these, so... yeah. If you want context or explanation, I can give it and maybe I'm wrong and you can tell me why. But right now I just feel like spitting out a lot of random shit off the cuff. There are a couple of you who sometimes comment on my LJ because you think I'm missing some perspective that I need to be considering (and actually intend to offer it for my benefit), and I love you guys. There are some of you who agree with these things but don't really say so, and.... yeah, you're all right. And there are some of you who press these buttons repeatedly. Comment if you want, but I might ignore you.

1. I love abortion. My mother could have aborted me, and while the circumstances of my conception are none of your goddamned business, most of you would agree if I explained why I think she had the right. I'm glad she didn't, but it causes me no anxiety to know that I was only born because she wanted me.
2. I love divorce. Divorce has been a major source of freedom in my family. I don't want one but the instant I do, the option had better be there.
3. I think Libertarians, by and large, should just come out of the anarchist closet and get it the fuck over with.
4. American Conservatives place more faith in the mythical "free market invisible hand" than they do in Jesus (the only practical difference being that Jesus fed the poor and the "invisible hand" doesn't).
5. I would like to hear a strong anti-immigration stance that did not eventually boil down to "White Americans Good; Colored Foreigners Bad."
6. I love religions, but seldom do I love "religious people," because as Stephen Prothero put it (and you can see this on my blog sidebar), being "religious" generally just means you think you have the right to all sorts of opinions on other people's sexual habits.
7. The internet is not different from "real life." It's real, all right, even if it's not proximal.
8. I think lists are fun, but often overused. Like this. This is terrible.
9. I didn't choose to be straight, but I wasn't born with a sexual orientation either. Tidy glib little answers like those probably don't help anyone, so everybody just shut the hell up and stop worrying about how the gays got gay. They're people. It's okay. Get over it.
10. Sexism isn't less sexist if you sometimes also slur genders other than cis women. Racism isn't less racist if you include those who aren't the most common targets. Injustice doesn't become more fair with repetition. Just more comprehensive.
11. Conflict resolution only works with rational people. With people who aren't rational, just dump them as quickly as possible once you learn this about them. If they want life skills, they can either get a therapist or start writing you checks for your time.
12. Rooster Cogburn should have used his real first name. It's perfectly respectable and I like it fine.
13. Men's fitness magazines present just as warped a relationship to food as women's mags.
14. Honoring same-sex marriage (either secular ones or the rites of religions like mine) doesn't infringe on the freedom of American Christians to dehumanize gay couples. Guys, no one can ever make you stop... just... drain you of members until you die a slow death drowning in your own pettiness.
15. Fuck Nascar and the Indy 500. Let me spoil it for you: THEY TURN LEFT.
16. If something here upset you, you probably didn't read this far. If you did, though, I bet you're already preparing how best to punish me for going off half-cocked and smearing my filth all over your friends-list. 

We're not supposed to post these things because they're "flame bait." Well, whatever. I've got a lotta prickly ornery bullshit building in the back of my blackened liberal soul, and I thought I'd post this rather than unleash my semi-coherent thrashing fury on the next person to hit a pet peeve.