A noteworthy post for "Pride Season"*

[jawnbc]

champdaddy isn’t just hawt. He’s clever and spirited and knows what’s what. Read it yourself.

Note to apathetic kweers: be apathetic, fine. But shut your cakehole about those of us who can’t be.




*Pride season in the US and some parts of Canada

Comments

[unclemike.livejournal.com]

Ya might wanna be careful about linking to things that are "friends only." I'm "forbidden" from reading it.

Yep: that's what the 403 message sez: forbidden.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

:: can't read aforementioned post ::

[woofytexan.livejournal.com]

cakehole? dude...

[sunsmogseahorse.livejournal.com]

Cake. Hole. Yay.

[champdaddy.livejournal.com]

well thanks for the vote of confidence... I'll open up this post to honor your link.

[jawnbc]

that's grand of you...I didn't ask because i didn't want to impose.

[jawnbc]

yeah that's wrong. but that's LA

but boycotting the event wouldn't help either.

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

Boycotting Pride..., you'd probably condemn me for not attending Pride in Ft. Lauderdale. I just couldn't do it.

[jawnbc]

not attending and boycotting ain't the same thing mister....the former disappoints, the latter disturbs. but it's not like you haven't done more than a bit of justice work!

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

Okay, understood. I guess I was thinking about the reactions of some people I know here. I haven't been to any Pride events since the 70s when I lived in SF.

[danthered.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure your (and, to some extent, champdaddy's) stance on the matter is entirely realistic or fair. There are many, many different kinds of activism. Valuable advocacy takes many forms. And I can think of several good reasons not to attend or participate in Pride parades.

To present the situation as either you participate in Pride parades or you're an "apathetic kweer who should shut his cakehole" is, I think, a little too judgemental and maybe a tetch self-centred and/or narrow-minded.

[jawnbc]

Well then you're not apathetic and it doesn't apply to you.

But I do think that folks who criticize things like Pride parades and have never done anything to further kweer rights--all the while riding on the work of others--are jerks.

Unwilling to do something? Be quiet. Of course it's judgemental.

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Fair 'nuff.