Born This Way?
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/07/born_this_way.php7/6/11
Jillian T. Weiss
Yesterday's Brainstorm column in the Chronicle of Higher Education featured a guest blog by Suzanna Danuta Walters, Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University, and author of All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America and the forthcoming The Tolerance Trap: What's Wrong With Gay Rights. Definitely read this column for yourself, and especially check out the fascinating comments section, where academics who have studies the issue weigh in.
Professor Walters discussed her recent visit to P-town, MA, after the historic New York marriage vote, noting this:
"But pro-marriage T-shirts ("Put a ring on it") were soon eclipsed by the T-shirt slogan de jour "Born this Way." Now, I'm the last person to dis the wondrous Lady Gaga, but her well-meaning ode to immutability is less helpful to gay rights than Guiliani in drag."
I sort of agree.
