Now THERE is an e mail that can teach us all how to chill out!!

Sam


Quoting Hal Weiner <[log in to unmask]>:

> Hey, chill out! I usually lurk on this board. And I am a proud American.
> We have free elections here. I didn't vote for the little bastard, but 
> Three
> Million other people, brainwashed because  they only have access
> to Sir Rupert Murdock's Fox Channel and other light hearted Goebbels
> Legatees, did not understand the world as it is, just as they wanted it 
> to be.
> 
> I don't need any instructions from those wonderful little people who 
> brought us King
> George. Even with nuclear weapons we have a long way to go to catch up 
> with the
> former British Empire's centuries of oppression, war and degradation of 
> others.
> E.g.,. the slave traders like the Captain who became remorseful and 
> wrote " Amazing Grace ",
> ( small consolation to the poor folk who lasted in chains for the next 
> several
> generations ), Barbary Coast pirates like Capt. Kidd ( helping raise
> the first Trinity Church steeple in New York with his ship's riggers 
> didn't buy
> his soul back from the Devil; you still hanged him when he came home.)
> Not to speak of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair,  so I won't. I 
> believe his Grace
> Rowan+ can easily quote you the proper phrase once the rest of the 
> Anglican
> Communion gets over the fact that we here in ECUSA, and the Canadians
> think that it is incumbent upon us to treat gays and lesbians as equals 
> in
> the sight of God: ".... ( something about casting the first stone.)
> 
> When I was the founding General Counsel and incorporator of the
> Gay Activists Alliance, Inc., then  America's largest GLBT civil rights
> group, back before most of you were born, out of our media committee
> grew a subcommittee that broke off from the organization ( note 
> Colonial spelling)
>   and insisted in addressing  all  of us, when writing or vocally,
> not as " Mr. ",  or "Mrs. " or " MS " which had then come into vogue
> because of Betty Friedan , Kate Millette and Audre Lorde, we
> all be addressed in their newly minted gender neutral salutation
> of " Mx. ". ( so why bother, the more rational among you might say...
> but rationality is in short supply in the GLBT community. Then again
> it is not imposed on the other so called " straight " community to any
> great extend either.)
> 
> Anyway, aside from being called anything with an "X" at the
> time evoking images of Malcolm X, a real no-no in racist America
> ( of course you Brits are free of all that, ask any Indian in Liverpool)
> may I humbly suggest that instead of all this spamalot about
> nothing, you get back to the task at hand; making the world safer
> and better for those who, in the words of F.Scott Fitzgerald,
> not " like you and me ". While he was talking economics,
> the phrase applies across the board, especially these days
> of fashionable Islam bashing.
> 
> And bye the bye, we didn't get that lady in the harbor
> from all you Anglo-Sexists. We got it from the much
> maligned, hated Frogs ( not the ones the Greek poet
> wrote about)  who should be remembered just as fondly
> for saving us from British cuisine as much as British arrogance.
> This is supposed to be an Academic bulletin board. Maybe
> it's time to get back  to class. Or to at least get some.
> 
> Hal  Weiner,  BA, JD.
> Founding General Counsel ( retired )
> Gay Activists Alliance, Inc.
> ( We Brought You the Lambda, Stupid.)
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 4, 2006, at 2:38 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 
> 
> In a message dated 4/4/2006 12:50:40 PM Central Standard Time, 
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> > Perhaps cisgender folks are all those large middle-aged,
> > white americans who want to; bomb abortion clinics; drag queer folks 
> > behind their cars before
> > clubbing them to death; let mexican victims of cancer, TB, car 
> > accidents and muggings die untreated
> > on the streets; etc and further defined by the overhwelming need to 
> > send other people's kids to a
> > god foresaken desert to be blown to pieces.
> Geez!?And here I just used "cisgender" in a funder's demographics form 
> to differentiate (in the "gender" column) between the members of our 
> transgender/SOFFA group who are transgender and those who are not.?I 
> was thinking I was simply dividing the world into transgender and 
> non-transgender, and now it turns out that there's this huge baggage 
> people are attaching to "Cisgender"!!!!!
> ?
> So if "cisgender" does NOT simply mean, "non-transgender," what's the 
> word we should be using??I suppose "non-transgender" works...I was 
> just excited to see another way of saying it that didn't label someone 
> as "not something else."?But given the discussion here where people 
> have assumed cisgender also means heteronormative, guess I won't be 
> using the cisgender term again, at least to refer to myself!
> ?
> Loree Cook-Daniels
>