Wild Words (The Warrior Woman at Thought)

From TS-SI

Opinion – Global Warning

Lisa Jain Thompson

Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:00

Fairfax, VA, USA.Some would have us believe that Jesus Ben Miriam is the one and only God, the earthly incarnation of the Creator of All. Some would say that Allah is the One and all others prophets are false idols. Still others would tell you that YWH is both the beginning and the end of all things.   And like the hundreds of other true religions on Planet Earth, there are those who would have you believe that the only difference between Crossdressers and True Transsexuals (men and women born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome — HBS fna transsexuality) is that the gender transvestites wear much higher heels.   I have no intention, however, writing about any of that. One should never talk religion or politics or society’s cultural myths in public unless one is willing to be subjected to the slings and arrows of true belief. It’s not that I won’t write about those subjects (a Greek philosopher or maybe it was an ancient Roman said that we should be moderate in all things, including moderation), I’m just not in the mood.   With the holiday season upon us, I feel more like writing about gift giving and suggestions of gifts that might be appropriate given the worldwide recession, the increasing unemployment rate, the re-emergence of the Russian Empire, and the forever wars (pick one, there’s quite a few). In suggesting gifts, I will try not to offend anyone but, knowing how prickly everyone is when it is their sacred cow I prick, readers might anticipate that somewhere in this column their own sense of humor might be tested.   SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author’s enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are “endowed by their Creator” with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim’s outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.           — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary So if you would, indulge me, and I shall try not to prick you too hard. If you do not wish to be pricked, you might as well stop reading now before you have an overwhelming urge to write an irate comment. Now I ask you, are you ready to grumble?   At the holiday season, we should not let ourselves forget the many deserving organizations and groups who have grabbed the public eye during the last year. They too need gifts (although many of them would prefer a cash deductible donation). Let us begin.   For the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a free course in truth in advertising. If you know that the inclusion of transgender protections in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has no chance of passing, don’t pretend that it does. I can count votes as well as you can. HRC’s flag waving support for transgendered protections before the congressional vote suggests an organization more interested in soliciting money than working a difficult issue at crunch time. At least the far right social conservatives are consistent in their viewpoint — I’ve never had one of them pretend to support HBS men and women while asking me for money.   While we are on the subject, HRC (and the transgender political advocates) should quit acting like you are in this to help True Transsexuals. The defeated transgender protection clause had more to do with cross-dressing at work and bathroom rights in shopping malls than providing assistance to HBS men and women in transition. ENDA, as it has been written, has had little to do with the needs of the HBS.   For the part-time Cross-dresser in your life, may I suggest Finoccio’s Weekend Dress-up Kit which contains everything the intermittent transvestite needs for a good time. The performance centerpiece is a bright red, glittery cocktail dress that hits three or four inches above the knee. The back of the dress fastens with expandable elastic Velcro so an exact fit is unnecessary.   Included in the kit is a pair of red five inch spike heels, a necessity for a proper entrance into the club (a coupon for a fifty percent discount on an optional pair of those six inch heels so popular on the fall runways is available online). The kit comes with a selection of various wigs so that picking one that remains the weekend dresser of his mother’s hairstyle is not difficult.   If you know any guys who feel the need to walk on the wild side, the BareBack Mountain selection may be just the thing. Choose from an eight ounce designer decanter of betadine, a crystal box filled with handy wipes, a pair of fleece lined leather stirrups, or a certificate for a free medical exam at the local clinic. As seen on Queer Eye, this is the gift for the gay man who likes to gambol.   And don’t overlook the BareBack Tongue and Finger Line for Lesbians. The organic vegan solar powered double dildo is to die for. Color choices include black watch, I’m not really a butch, and traditional sixties’ flannel.   For any progressives on your list, the newest trendy gift is the Washington Changed Him song book with guitar tablatures and lyrics. Tunes includeI Knew He Really Wasn’t Black, You Can’t Trust A Politician, Can You?, and Last Night I Dreamed I Saw Obama At The Workers Party Pancake Breakfast.   Imagine sitting around the collective campfire eating s’mores and singing such favorites asThis Land Is My Land Not Yours, The Sad And Bewoeful Ballad of Barry O, and Damn That Hillary, The Bitch Set Him Up. A gift guaranteed to provide hours of unbridled lamentation as your favorite progressive plans to take back the White House once again from The Man.   Do you know someone who remembers the Good Old Days? Fifty-nine cent gas and American Hegemony. The Imperial American Play Set may be just the gift for that special person. Accessories include the half-size M-1 rifle, just like the one they had when they played when they played army when they were young, and a Russian-American moon race kit. Let your special one be the first to land on the moon!   For the girls, a Home Ec Internet course with recipes for those special brownies comes free along with a flowered cotton granny dress. Moon Rocks, Frisbees, and Hula Hoops are available for the cost of shipping and handling.   Whatever you do, don’t forget the Religious Right Litmus Kit for those special born-agains on your shopping list. Imagine Christmas morning after the service, how they will break down in joyful tears when they open the Flat Earth Diorama with Husband and Wife figurines, along with their children, walking right beside a T-Rex or a Brontosaurus.   Included is the a biblical list of the six admonishments to homosexuals and the 362 admonishments to heterosexuals just as they appear in God’s Book. The admonishment list comes in both King James and Duoay-Rheims versions. Both versions are suitable for framing.   You don’t want to forget the left liberals on your shopping list. For them, the Left Liberal Litmus Kit may be just the thing. Imagine Solstice morning after your white progressive friends gather around the Kwanzaa Kinara to pass the unity cup and they open their copy of the Das Capital Cliff Notes. Envisage the tears of joy when they don the ashes and sackcloth and admit to thinking that slavery is just plain wrong, damn it.   The Left Liberal Litmus Kit does not stop there. As your progressive friends continue to unwrap their gift, picture their surprise at the invitation to join their out of work comrades in a sleepover on the exhaust grate over the Metro subway in January. At a slight additional charge, you can give any liberal acquaintances on your list a full week slot at the day work laborers pick-up location so that they can work side by side with the workers.   And finally, if you know any academic gender theorists but are at a lost what to buy them, you might want to get them a Gender Spectrometer. Certified by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPASSTH), the Gender Spectrometer accurately displays current gender theory while ignoring the sex binary imposed by the male dominated patriarchal capitalistic hierarchy (aka “The Man”). Eliminate the confusion as, at last, the transgender in your life will be able to point to exactly where his or her gender is at any particular moment in the day.   Note: The Gender Spectrometer may not be available in Kansas and certain other states.

Yeah, like I’m so shocked…….From TS-SI

• Nov. 16th, 2008 at 2:49 PM

Opinion – Global Warning

Written by Lisa Jain Thompson

Saturday, 15 November 2008 19:00

Fairfax, VA, USA. Seventy percent of President-Elect Barack Obama’s Black Support in California voted to ban gay marriage. Raised in the fundamental Protestantism of the black community churches, almost three quarters of the black voters in California indicated their hypocritical opposition to equal rights for all Americans. To expect them to vote otherwise is symptomatic of the failure of the liberal movement to effect real, long lasting changes in the political and social structures of the United States. The progressive rose colored assertion that we are all brothers and sisters under the skin has been proven false once again. The recent vote in California demonstrated that the assumption that the liberal coalition would do “what is right” (if given the chance) is misguided. Over sixty percent of all Californians supported Obama (the African American support was over ninety percent): over seventy percent of the black vote chose to ban same sex marriage. [N1] The fabled liberal coalition, built on an academic façade of equality and brotherhood, has feet of clay. Beneath the skin, we all harbor blind prejudices and ignorance. Black America is no different, their skin does not canonize them with sainthood. Why would we think otherwise? My brothers are all others forever hand in hand Where chimes the bell of freedom there is my native land My brother’s fears are my fears yellow white or brown My brother’s tears are my tears the whole wide world around.[N2] For decades, centuries even, the progressive movement has argued that liberal America exists as a unified block, workers and academics, politicians and voters, the salt of the earth, keepers of the true flame, if not the grail. That argument is no longer operative, if it ever was. The election of Barack Obama changes nothing. The same churches that support social changes that agree with their philosophies oppose those that clash with their sexual mores. Liberation theology applies to true believers only, non-believers need not apply. The peoples of The Book would have us all follow their gods and preachers or burn us all in hell. I will take a reformed Catholic any day — a lapsed Mormon, a runaway Baptist, a good old-fashioned founding father Deist – over a liberal who speaks the words but only looks out for himself when he walks. At least the apostate is honest about who he is. Gray skies Are gonna clear up, Blue skies Are here to stay, Put on a happy face! [N3] The liberal amazement at the outcome in California is astounding. Their core belief in the innate goodness and fairness of humanity has been demonstrated to have serious, fundamental defects. The coalition is a myth, a political slogan, a religious belief not to be questioned – except it has been. Now what are we going do about it? A safe assumption is that queers can no longer count on the progressive movement to spearhead the drive for equal rights. When a liberal (or any political party it would seem) has to chose between the queer community and obtaining and then retaining power, power wins. Always. Absolutely. Liberal white guilt will preclude any serious discussion of the anti-gay bias within the black churches (although the same liberal whites have no problem attacking the Catholic Church for holding the same opinions). Likewise, that same guilt has blocked white liberal criticism of the black community, its family structures, its views on education, its wide ranging homophobia and racism. The American black community repeatedly exhibits vocal racist attitudes towards other minorities. Their blind dislike of Asians (Koreans in particular) is well known. Their rabid distrust of Hispanics is unsurprising and widespread. Why is anyone surprised by black opposition to equal rights of gays? Having got theirs, the black community does not see the need to share. Progressives should be overjoyed: the African American community has achieved equality with other true Americans, full of themselves, homophobia and racism. Black pulpits are filled with fundamental preachers chanting verses from The Book that purport to condemn homosexuals. In a world where Sodom and Gomorrah are historical products of God’s anger, homosexuals are a sinful abomination and men and women born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS fka transsexuality) are just an elaborate species of cross-dressing transvestites. The progressive coalition is a joke, an unsubstantial grouping of political convenience that quickly dissolves into its constituent parts when the rubber hits the road . [N4] When the going got tough, the liberal coalition – at least its black constituency – ran. The queer community should not blindly expect unilateral, unwavering support from the progressive movement. Homophobia strikes deep. Nor should the queer community unquestioningly support the progressive agenda. There needs to be a quid pro quo. We will support those pieces of the liberal movement that visibly prove their support for the queer community at the voting booth. If that means withholding support for the black civil rights movement until such time as the black community supports equal rights for gays, lesbians, and transsexuals and the inalienable right of any two Americans, regardless of the sex, to marry under the laws of the United States and the several states, so be it. There is no such thing as a free lunch, not even if you are black. Our ancestors, queer and straight, died to free the slaves. Four hundred thousand Americans gave their lives so that all men can be free. A hundred and fifty years later, that debt is paid in full. It’s time we demanded something in return. Let every voice be thunder, let every heart beat strong Until all tyrants perish our work shall not be done Let not our memories fail us the lost year shall be found Let slavery’s chains be broken the whole wide world around. [N5] Notes [N1] According to the California Secretary of State, 61.9% of Californians supported Obama for President in the recent election (out of 7,338,133 votes cast). Proposition 8, which eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry, passed with 52.2% (out of 6,237,356 votes cast). Exit polls showed that 94% of African Americans supported Obama; 70% chose to ban same sex marriage. For reportage by television networks and other media outlets, the Associated Press (AP) provided vote totals that were analyzed in light of exit interviews by Edison Media Research (EMR). The interviewers asked voters for their opinion on the issue, determined how they voted, and collected demographic data to allow analysis of group voting patterns. The results were anayzed using scientifically selected representative precincts. A number of commentators resist inferences that black voters should receive special attention for their support of Proposition 8. For instance, Kate Kendell of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), issued a statement on 14 November 2008. She stated that. The scapegoating of African-Americans in particular, has the potential to do us real damage in the long run. A sad fact is that the often-quoted number of 70%—the figure by which black voters passed Prop 8—is terribly exaggerated and the figure is likely much closer to 57%, which is consistent with all earlier polling. Ms. Kendell offered no documentation for her claim. [N2] Because All Men Are Brothers (Bach/Glazer, c. 1940) [N3] Change No Change by Lisa Jain Thompson ©2008 [N4] When push comes to shove, when the sh-t hits the fan, if you can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen, etc. [N5] Because All Men Are Brothers (Bach/Glazer, c. 1940)

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