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February 28th, 2007 - 10:00
Too funny.
February 28th, 2007 - 10:19
That’s awesome.
February 28th, 2007 - 12:23
Can I vent a little? I’ve heard enough from these people who are talking about how high Al Gore’s utility bills are or that he sometimes flies in private jet. Does that negate the good he’s trying to do for the environment in any way? NO.
Of course it’s always good to have one’s own house in order and he has documented the ways he is trying to minimize his personal impact on the environment. To make up the difference, he’s pledged to cancel his carbon footprint by making the appropriate donations.
Arrrghhh, I snapped at a woman in my office this morning because I’ve heard enough from these people who are obviously parroting back what the conservative talk dorks and trannies are spewing in an effort to bring Gore down.
February 28th, 2007 - 12:29
Trannies?
Yeah, I’ve been trying to ignore that whole Drudge-created bullshit. It’s ridonkulous.
February 28th, 2007 - 12:39
Trannies?
Hello? Ann Coulter.
February 28th, 2007 - 12:51
Oh, riiiiiiiight.
February 28th, 2007 - 13:22
I saw a video on Fox News of a dude that was calling Gore out. There was a spokesperson (not Gore’s) talking about Gore maintaining a zero carbon footprint with his donations and all that and this asshole had the most smug, cynical look on his face. He said “well it sounds like he’s using his wealth to pay off his guilt”, and later “well, someone else is gonna have to explain to me exactly what this ‘carbon footprint’ is all about”.
HE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT HE WAS MAKING A COMMENTARY ON!!!!
AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
February 28th, 2007 - 15:18
Elizabeth was blah blah blahing about this on The View today and yesterday. Rosie tried to correct her and she basically said Gore paid his way to being “green.”
That’s ok though, because Rosie gave her the smackdown today when she said that she thinks the Patriot Act is a good thing and she doesn’t care if the government listens to her conversations if it means she is “safe”.
February 28th, 2007 - 15:48
I can’t even watch Elisabeth without my head hurting. The other day she was blathering on about that James Cameron documentary and how it’s not true because there’s proof that Jesus ascended to heaven. When asked where she found that truth, she said in a book called the Bible. ~X(
And what exactly is wrong with Gore “paying” to be green? It means he is making charitable donations to alternative energy sources to mitigage whatever damage he is doing to the environment. What’s wrong with that? When I finally buy the geekboy and I our TerraPasses, we’ll be doing the same thing. And that junk mail service I signed up for yesterday will be planting trees on our behalf. Oh, that liberal guilt, it hurts, it hurts.
February 28th, 2007 - 16:46
“And what exactly is wrong with Gore “paying†to be green?”
It’s a simple way to put one’s money where one’s mouth is regarding climate change. Which scares the shit out of people who think they’re being good Amurcans by filling up their Escalades.
February 28th, 2007 - 17:52
I saw an amazing talk a few weeks ago by David Suzuki on his “If you were Prime Minister” tour. For that night’s show, his special guest was Stephen Lewis. Basically it’s a cross Canada tour to talk about the climate crisis, and encouraging us to change the political climate.
A great point they brought up was NASA. When it looked like Russia was going to be first on the moon, so much money was pumped into the space program. This was a huge investment on a huge unknown, and now we have unexpected benefits like GPS.
If only there was a competition to beat other countries and reduce emissions eh? Might put a push in the right direction. We’re suffering similar struggles now, with our failure to keep up with Kyoto.
I wish the Gore we know now was the Gore who ran for President.
March 1st, 2007 - 08:27
Someone called me out on using “tranny” as a slam against Ann Coulter and they are right. I was being jokey and stupid and that was insensitive. I have nothing against trannies and everything against Ann Coulter. Sorry if I offended anyone.
March 1st, 2007 - 08:43
I thought it was funny; didn’t think you meant it in an offensive way.
March 1st, 2007 - 09:10
It was me who emailed him, which I imagine will not surprise anyone. My objection to this particular use of language is, in a nutshell:
Using “tranny” as an insult is almost always fucked up for the exact same reason that using “dyke” or “half-breed” as an insult is almost always fucked up. (Exceptions are noted, and context always matters, blah blah etc.) This remains true even when the intention is to make a joke. The punchline in most of these contexts rests upon the idea that there’s something inherently wrong with being a dyke, half-breed or tranny, and that’s usually only funny if you think it’s true.
March 1st, 2007 - 09:29
I get it, Jen. I feel the same way about the word “retard.”
However, I usually get a giggle when someone refers to Coulter as a tranny not because I think there’s anything wrong with it, but because Coulter REALLY does think there’s something wrong with it. Sort of like the George Takei video where he told that homophobe basketball player that he wanted to have sex with him.
Anyway, apologies.
March 1st, 2007 - 10:11
I know you’re not any kind of bigot, FG.
Imo, the Takei thing is different though. Calling Coulter a tranny just to insult Coulter does nothing to upset the negative categorization of transsexuals, it just reinforces it. Like, you probably wouldn’t greenlight the use of racist terminology against Michelle Malkin, no matter how vile she is or how many racist things she says, right? This is the same kind of distinction. What Takei did, though, was take negative stereotypes and deploy them in a subversive way to disrupt the status quo of the social hierarchy in which straight men are privileged over women and gays. He treated a homophobic ball player in the same way that homophobic bball culture treats women, and it was, indeed, teh funnay.
Subversion is one of my favorite forms of humor, and it absolutely depends on using all these “no-no” terms and stereotypes about race, class, gender, sexuality, etc., but imo it’s only funny when it’s fucking around with the status quo. It stops being subversive humor when it just reinforces the power divisions that already keep a population like transsexuals, for example, from having legal equality — or even, in many cases, from being able to walk safely down the street.
I really wish we could have these particular interactions face-to-face; from behind this wall of text I always feel like everyone thinks I’m all Sterny D. Lesbian about it and that’s not really how I am, lol. I’m not at all very “PC” in the way most people understand that term. It’s not naughty language but rather the hierarchy that I object to, because imo that’s what causes most of our social problems, and these little language things contribute to maintaining the hierarchy, so I’m always picking at them because of the structures they uphold.
It sounds weird to say that I don’t mean to come off as being so damn serious as I tend to come off about it, since the subject matter is tragically deadly serious for a lot of people, but it’s true. Mostly I’m pretty easygoing when I challenge people’s use of language, it’s just that I haven’t figured out how to communicate that very well through written word yet.
March 1st, 2007 - 10:41
…it’s just that I haven’t figured out how to communicate that very well through written word yet.
Are you kidding? I wish I could express myself as well as you.
Anyway, I want to make you a t-shirt that says “Sterny D. Lesbian, Protector of Civil Rights and Baker of Muffins.” ;)
March 1st, 2007 - 10:51
Hee, maybe we could fit “bottomless baker of muffins and special brownies” on there. And pfft, you’re an awesome writer and I often wish you knew it better.
March 1st, 2007 - 10:52
Awwww, let’s hug it out!
March 1st, 2007 - 11:00
::Karen & Jack belly bump::
March 1st, 2007 - 11:12
Dude, you don’t know what you’re getting into with that. I could knock you clear across the room. ;)
March 1st, 2007 - 13:37
I know you’re not any kind of bigot, FG.
No, that’d be me!
March 1st, 2007 - 13:39
Oh stop it, you know that’s not what I meant.
March 1st, 2007 - 13:39
Oh, stop. You are so not.
March 1st, 2007 - 13:48
Sorry, Jen and I have shared custody of the brain today.
March 1st, 2007 - 14:16
I kid! And am appropriately chastised.