Fugitivus Discussion Forum

yeah... that makes absolutely no sense at all. other than that he's obviously advocating killing lesbians. asshole.

I get posts/updates for The Daily Show on my Facebook page. Whoever writes their updates said something about Jon Stewart making an important announcement, and for people to guess what it was. I should know not to read comment sections, but I did. I was shocked and disappointed by how many fauxgressives posted comments along the lines of "He's gay! lmfao!!" or "he was born a woman!" or "he's getting a sex change lol!!"

*facepalm*

I found this in someone's desc on Furcadia:



I am so deeply disgusted and furious.

Eirwyn, that is so wrong.

I...well...what even is that shit

Wow. That's fucked up.

I'm still waiting for a fucking Guardian to get back to me on this shit. I swear I had to type in 'help' THREE times before someone got to me. Then they referred me to the Guardian channel and I haven't spoken to a Guardian yet. That was like twelve hours or more ago. What the fuck. I E-mailed them, though, so they have no choice but to at least be aware of the problem.

Urgh. Just read a draft of the current-event research paper one of my students is working on. Topic was the repeal of DADT, and at one point he suggested that it was the "openly gay" part that was a problem, because straight soldiers aren't "openly straight". After headdesking for a about a million years, I figured out a professional and appropriate way to point out that just as white is the "unmarked" race in American culture (a concept we've discussed in class), heterosexuality is the "unmarked" orientation. Not only are the straight soldiers "openly" straight, but non-straight ones are assumed to be too. The default assumption for a person's orientation is not "asexual", which is what he inadvertently implied. Just, argh.

Well, unless you're me. I assume everyone's asexual unless I see evidence to the contrary.

But yeah, that is pretty failtastic of your student. I hope your pointing-it-out gets through to them.

Isabel, i read a blog post recently that would be perfect for that student to read, on having to erase one's romantic or sexual partners if one is "in the closet": The Invisible Person. (Trigger warning on some of the other posts on that blog; the blogger writes a great deal about BDSM, so people may want to be careful there if that tends to be triggering for 'em. Also be aware that she has a more lax commenting policy than a lot of progressive blogs out there.) I'm sure you have heaps of great teaching resources already but I figure throwing one more resource out there for general use can't hurt, especially because of the wonderful plain language in which Holly writes, which makes her writing perfect for sending to people who still find a lot of activist or academic jargon more intimidating or difficult to absorb.