I'm a bit afraid about the google searches I will get from that title.
Sometimes I think this blog doesn't discuss the issues of gay parenting enough. I feel I should be more IN YOUR FACE as a lesbian, although I'm not sure why I would need to be. I describe our very normal life in a very normal (albeit snoozin' kind of way- hey did I mention before the really cute thing my kids have been doing for months now, which is to pretend they are asleep and they SNORE. Uh-huh, they pretend SNORE. I mean, how freaking cute is that? And then Jr. says, "I go fast asleep... and SNORES and CLOSES HIS EYES.-) way.
How was that sentence, eh?
So, briefly as I just went through my blog's email cleaning and tidying and maintaining and it took longer than I wanted, I will mention a couple of thoughts, one about being a gay mom, and another related to a gay person.
I am interviewing for a job (which I desperately need) that doesn't have DP (that's domestic partnership to you) benefits and does not list sexual orientation on its workplace anti-discrimination list. Huh. Not sure exactly how to bring that up without losing the job offer.
Now, on to more exciting things than my BIG FAT GAY life (or not, not really more exciting to me, but to some it may be).
I know and honestly care very very little, teeny tiny dinosaur (oops, sorry, NOT reading this to my son right now) about the Rosie and Donald thing. So little in fact that, while treadmilling at the gym the other night and watching a TV that's about a mile away (I SO SO had it good at my YMCA which had individual TVs for each treadmill, I didn't even need my glasses and I didn't KNOW how good I had it) while listening to my Harry Potter book I on my new IPOD shuffle which J splurged for for me for Christmas while she got a $19.99 Target sweater and that is IT, I swear it. I'm stopping that sentence right there. It is such a mess I'm just staring as if it was a complete sentence, mmmk? SO I was listening to Harry and eying the TV. Larry King was on. Ick. What an Ick. He had Donald Trump talking about the Rosie O'Donnell feud. Ok, I don't even know what the feud was about, but at one point something on the TV sucked me in and I wanted to HEAR what was going on, so I plugged in my headphones and I hear Donald saying pretty harsh things, then he said, "she's a degenerate?, and she's ... some word that implies unattractive and gross..." Wow, what a great story, right? I can't even quote him directly. But you get the idea.
Anywhoooo, I felt immediately angry at Donald and horrified and angry at Larry King for his smile of agreement, and angry at society at large, that a woman's looks are still attacked when a disagreement is in hand. Her looks (and frankly her sexual preference) have nothing to do with it other than using them against her weakens her position in the eyes of the person slinging that mud and, more unfortunately, in the eyes of the public. You KNOW thousands of men and hundreds of women were thinking, yeah, she IS pretty... insert negative thought about her looks and/or sexuality here. So by making her an object to be thought below everyone due to her sexual preference and to make her sexuality not worthy of others' recognition (and somehow this weakens her position) because she is deemed by this TRUMP person to be unattractive, makes it seem a woman can only be respected and treated on equal footing as men if she lives up to some standard of beauty or good looks.
Well, obviously it's been a while since I've written a college paper commenting on the sociological aspects of feminism and the beauty industry, but please accept my poor comment and read the intent.
I felt miserable the rest of my workout. I have naively thought that people were growing, society was improving, women were more respected for their contributions than their make-up. I would not have felt so insulted if he commented on her grammar, or disliked the persona or role she presents as Rosie the Celebrity.
Alright, enough about a subject I care little about, really.
G'night