Things that make you go hmm...

Found this thanks to catscradle: Just say no to Cafepress. I haven't used or even looked at their site in years, but I know a few people who put artwork and the like on there. Anybody know what's the up? Do they seriously expect to be able to retain the copyright to anything posted there? If so, that might eat itself real fast when you consider how much copyright-infringing stuff goes on there.

In other news it is a rainy day and I'm quite content with that. =)

Since it's gay pride month...

You know, stuff like this just makes me want to cry. Especially when I click on the various testimonials completely at random and see people who have essentially managed to place blame for their problems on the one thing that wasn't causing them and found a therapist who encouraged them to do so. Sexuality aside, I'd be as upset by this as if it was people writing about how their therapists told them they could get over their 9-11 trauma by no longer wearing the color blue.

"I can have same-sex friends now without sex taking place!" Well good for you! This has nothing to do with being straight or gay! I'm bi and believe me there are plenty of people of both genders that I'm not fucking right now (currently that number totals 6 billion) nor do I want to (a number that's about, give or take, 5,999,999,985). This is like low-cal Bailey's Irish Cream, guys. If you're getting fat because you're drinking too much Bailey's, perchance calories were not your largest concern.

Hauling this back to sex (because why not?) the thing that also bugs me is that no matter how much they try to dress this stuff up in feel-good "We're just empowering individuals to change if they want to" type talk, when push comes to shove and you click enough links you can see it's the same damn message: We changed, so therefore everyone can change, so therefore stop being gay.

And you know what? I'm so amazed that that argument manages to continue. Let's assume this as a given. Go for it. I have no problem. Sexuality is a choice. You got it. You won. So WHAT? My wearing contact lenses instead of glasses is a choice too. Would anybody in their right mind think it was okay to write laws that dictated my vision correction? (Possibly this is a scary question to ask in Dubya's USA where if terrorists wore contacts I'm actually fairly damn certain that they'd be outlawed).

But the point is rational people wouldn't do that. No idiot would come up to me at a Baskin-Robbins and say "TBQ, the fact that you ordered rocky road is a choice. Therefore I have the right to pressure you into ordering vanilla fudge swirl from now on." That wouldn't even be a conversation. So why does this sexuality one continue? What moron do I blame for even allowing this whole choice nonsense to continue past the first utterance of it? That dipshit should've been laughed out of the protest march and forced to go home and take a correspondance course on how to have a real argument before being allowed out of the house again.

You know, come to think of it, being a dipshit is a choice too. Can I write laws to make that illegal now?

Gay pride continued

A few people responded to my earlier post about sexuality as choice and specifically my question about why the argument "Being gay is a choice, therefore you can/should change into someone straight" is allowed to continue. Since more than one person raised the same point I thought I'd clarify in one go =)

I'm not saying I don't understand why they keep arguing this. God knows there are some people on the anti-gay side who'd happily accept the falsehood that being straight means you spontaneously generate vitamin C if they thought it would further their agenda. I'm not talking about them.

I'm talking about us (ie those who recognize the argument as ridiculous, regardless of sexuality). Why do we let this argument continue? These things can't persist in a vacuum. Why wasn't there such a round of hysterical laughter at the sound of this that nobody could collectively catch a breath for easily 3 years?

The argument is bruce. Why do we let it continue?

Not that I don't have other things to do

Edwardian bunny, next Epiphany story, flashfic, downloading vid stuff - nope! I'm doing a drabble. Because I'm on crack.

( Post Chosen/Home but honestly not spoilery, and you'll just have to read it to find out more )