If you read enough history, and you're black, you should be forgiven for thinking gays never had an original idea in their lives:
“The template for this idea of separatism is black separatism,” Todd Gitlin, a sociology professor at Columbia University and the author of “The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage,” said. “The coverage of the Nation of Islam gained enormous traction with Malcolm X. Via him, separatism was in the air. Run a few years ahead and more people were estranged from normalcy––and normalcy was looking crazier because of the Vietnam War. The appeal of separatism is compounded. You have all kinds of versions of this; various forms of unplugging.”
There is no reliable record of how many women were calling themselves lesbian separatists at the height of the movement,...
A cultish world without men - right:
Malcolm would've totally endorsed that.
And did you notice two things:
1. How gays immediately set about destroying the world blacks were fighting to enter? Thanks guys and gals. Much appreciated. Made it all worth it.
2. The phrase "normalcy was looking crazier"? How it was rolled over without contending with the obvious implication tucked within it - that it was those "looking" at normalcy who were growing "crazier"? No, couldn't be, because now they're our heroes - right?
Unless you're some new kind of weirdo yourself,...
These two lines from that article pretty much sums up for me the whole crazy/normal thing:
ReplyDelete"They had fantasies of gardening naked in the sunshine. Instead, the snow was so high it reached the windowsills."
Reality is a bitch girlies; time to grow up and face it. While you're at it, please quit forcing your fantasies on the rest of us (who may not particularly want to be included in your "vision"), and then especially wondering why you get an icy reception from people who have to live in the real world (and think normalcy was just fine, and are pissed that once again folks like you and your cheering section have moved the goalposts).
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I want the rainbow back!
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By the way...it may be popcorn time:
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What will some feminists do now?!?
(and yeah, I have next to no regard -- ok, less than no regard -- for feminists, but hey a good cat fight is always fun and this one was a long time coming; plus the more they all tie themselves up in knots and reveal themselves while doing it, the better)
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