Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
No sure why that was, maybe because the Greens are so gay-friendly that it didn’t occur to try and up his gay credibility.
I don't think having an entourage is much of a credibility enhancer - unless you're a rapper. :)
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Idiot Savant,
Quite. Which is what fucked me off about Clark say that if the option had been there in 1981, she'd have entered into a civil union rather than marry Peter Davis. I don't know or care whether Clark and Davis have dissolved their marriage and entered into a civil union; but they have that choice. So do Russell and Fiona, who are perfectly happy without benefit of clergy or registered marriage/civil union celebrant.
Is it really that divisive and radical to say the man who has shared my life for fifteen years (and isn't ageing backwards from 65, BTW) and I want the same choice? Nothing more, but nothing less.
(Or for that matter, that my Anglican Maori father marrying a white Catholic woman twenty eight years his junior was not considered a legitimate interest of the state - even though it was not universally welcomed by their families and friends?)
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Emma Hart,
And in order to suck some of the poison out of the debate, it should be a straight, married MP. Someone who can say, “I have this right, it’s important to me, it should be extended to everyone.”
Which would be nice, but I don’t think being a married mother of three saved Fran Wilde from much… (Also, don't forget to a certain type of mind "married female Labour MP" = "dyke with beard".)
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Can you tweak it to allow for plural marriage?
Shall we cross that troll-bridge when the usual suspects come to it?
Yes, you can legalize polygamy, bestiality, paedophilia and incest any damn time you like – and the moment anyone suggests any such thing I’ll state my objections. But if you're going to equate homosexuality or same-sex civil marriage with any of the above, I'm not going to play nice.
ETA: Oh, snap Idiot/Savant!
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think it was objectively way weirder: “I know the answer but I’m not going to tell you”? Huh?
Objectively, if we’ve got to parse what Goff meant by “discrimination in the community” and guess WTF he meant by “more work to be done” (and did anyone ask him for specifics?), I’ll subjectively say fuck ’em both. If you're going to cock-tease for votes, it helps if you're a damn sight more dolly than Messers Goff and Key.
Honestly, I think both Goff and Key personally know that marriage equality is the right and just thing to do. Which makes it so much worse that they're too fucking spineless - or, frankly, cynically view the rest of us as a pack of drooling bigots - to even go out and make the argument. At least I know the theocon right in the US hold me, my partner and every GLBT person and their families in utter, unmitigated contempt.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Emma Hart,
I’ll be asking each and every one of them how they would vote if such a private member’s bill was introduced, and the answer to that question will determine my vote.
It's certainly a question I'll be putting to the folks who'd like to replace Wayne Mapp as the National Party candidate for North Shore. If you can't stand on a principle in, arguably, National's safest seat no desk is safe.
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It was a weird and spineless response.
Yes it was, but was it any less weird and spineless than Goff’s – to put it bluntly, how tolerant should we be of Goff dog-whistling marriage equality to GLBT audiences when the cameras are around? Frankly, I’m pretty glad I had a prior engagement on Sunday otherwise I’d have been looking for the drag queen with the biggest, scariest handbag and going nuts on that pair of jellyfish.
Too many people remember how hard and nasty it was getting civil unions into law.
Which was nothing compared to what a hard, nasty rollercoaster ride homosexual law reform was. YMMV, but I’m glad Fran Wilde stood firm against people in her own party who were convinced she’d cost Labour the ’87 election because homosexual law reform was just the right thing to do. I get and totally respect that you don’t feel personally invested in marriage equality, but I’d respectfully suggest that Fran Wilde wasn't in law reform. She wasn't a gay man, after all. Nor was associate health minister Katherine O'Reagn and her Labour shadow Lianne Dalziel personally affected by the Human Rights Amendment Act, but IMO they still haven't had due credit for doing a lot of backroom heavy lifting to make sure it was passed with an overwhelming majority.
Isn't it a rather delicious irony that three straight women have done more for the civil rights of this gay man than anyone else?
When Key and Goff grow a pair of ovaries, I’ll be the first to cheer from the roof tops. Until then, I’m not going to say thank you for being told to sit at the back of the bus and be thankful I haven’t been thrown in front of it.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to dyan campbell,
Jane Goodall? What a tramp!
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Jackie Clark,
He told me I looked like a butch dyke, to which I replied with much profanity, words to the effect of – My hair, not yours etc etc.
You still look like every butch dyke of my acquaintance -- abso-fucking-loutely awesome. Oh, and anyone who thinks my preferred #1 cut makes me look like a skinhead? I'll grow it out if you come around fours times a day and groom the bloody mess until it doesn't look some giant hair tumour. Fair dos?
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to Peter Adamson,
I guess it is, as you say, “easy to forget”. But I do remember actively listening out for those “howls of outrage” locally and on Outpost Gallifrey (as it was back then) for them regarding RTD’s past work.
Fair enough – as both RTD and Moffat have said repeatedly, a thick skin is essential when working on Doctor Who. If you’re not getting flamed on the boards by someone (from RTD’s “gay agenda” to Moffat’s ginga-phobia in one easy step) you’re not doing it right. :)
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