Knowing When to Not Do Something

[NicholeW.]

Knowing When to Not Do Something
Gender Journeys, 2/10/2009

http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/knowing-when-to-not-do-something/

Over the past few days I've been much taken with the ongoing disturbances in the LTBG blogosphere about HRC, ENDA, DOMA, the state of civil unions in New Jersey as opposed to marriage rights (they don't seem to be equivalents, regardless of what the Legislature has attempted to do. Horseless carriages are a grand idea. But, if you're gonna remove the horse, please do recall that the carriage or cart or wagon does need to have a power-source of some sort.)

Instead of trying to make some scintillating comments about how LTBGs all should get out of our own spaces long enough to understand that we are nowhere close to a majority and that whatever political power and enfranchisement we gain we get through the good graces of our skills at relationships and the graciousness of those who do not see us as pariahs, I'm not going to even try to go there today. Perhaps best to make certain that we are able to maintain that non-pariah stance. It's much easier to alienate possible friends than it is to make them.