Defending the "C" Word

There has been an ongoing dispute between me and some girl that has been going on for a while, which is a surprise to me because I don't even know her that well. What I do know is that everything she says is ignorant and I've exercised my first amendment right to express how ignorant she is on several occasions.

It's gotten especially heated now because she tried to amend a document and some people were against it. Her request to amend was not honored, and I feel especially gleeful.

I think all of this began when I called her a word that started with the letter "C." It's usually not a word I like to use, but I felt that it was the best word to describe her after all of the things she said. After I said it about her, she got so upset that she started telling everyone about what an evil little queer I am, which I have no problem with because she is entitled to her opinion about me just as I am entitled to call her whatever I want to call her.

I don't see what the big deal is. I called her a "Christian."

One of my classes this semester is Comparative Mythology and we are discussing the Abrahamic religions. The girl says she's a Catholic and was incensed at the fact that I referred to her faith as Christian-based. She feels so strongly about this that she stresses the fact that she is CATH-O-LIC (that's how she pronounces it) and not CHRIS-TIAN. She looks pretty silly when she says it that way, but I'm still right because Catholicism is a derivative of Christianity.

She hasn't liked me ever since I used the C word. That's why she blamed me for her failed attempt to amend the course syllabus to include The Bible as a scholarly journal that can be used as a reference in our final research paper. I simply pointed out that The Bible is not a scholarly journal even though she insists that it was written by scholars. The professor agreed with me and the discussion was closed.

Class discussions are difficult now because she always assumes that everything I say is a dig at her. Doesn't it just make you sick when people start listening to or reading something and they automatically assume that it's about THEM? People should stop worrying about things they can't control and just enjoy their lives.

Bar Room Blitz

I've always known that drama happens at gay bars. It's one of those myths that is just accepted by people such as the existence of the g spot or the fact that Miley Cyrus' boyfriend ISN'T gay.

I was at Roscoe's last week with the boyfriend and a group of his law school cohorts when a stray hand gesture made by the boyfriend connected with the glass of an unsuspecting queen who was passing by. The glass flew back onto the queen's face and he drew back as if he was a foreign diplomat who just got hit by a stray bullet.

The queen gasped and put his hands on his face telling everyone that he was fine and I would have been concerned had, it not been for the fact that I recognized these movements from an episode of La Mujer de Judas, where Altagracia gets shot. It happened suddenly, it was super dramatic, and the whole thing took about twenty minutes when it only should have taken a few seconds. That sad little queen milked that moment harder than a farmer trying to win first prize at the Pennsylvania State Fair milking contest.

My boyfriend bought the queen another drink and that should have been the end of it. He didn't have to, but he also made sure that the queen was okay even though I objected loudly, pointing out that it was merely an accident and that there was no blood. The queen faded into the crowd, being overly-consoled by his coterie of queerbait.

I spent some time reflecting on why I was so upset at the situation. At first I assumed it was because the focus was taken away from me, but I also think that I'd seen myth become reality and I wasn't ready to handle that.

I know I'll get some angry e-mails, calling me a heartless bastard for not being concerned about the possibility of the queen having internal injuries from a cocktail glass to the cheek. But let's take a step back and realize that gay bars are battlefields and casualties are inevitable. I can't tell you how many pairs of shoes I've lost to underage drinkers vomiting on them. I've been pushed, shoved, groped, ogled, and motorboated. I've been elbowed in the nose while dancing on the dancefloor and I still kept dancing, despite the fact that blood was gushing down my face.

Cocktail glass to the cheek... psha!

A Historic Day

People have been following a major event for months and it's gotten very intense, especially over the past few days. We've all been gritting our teeth, anxious about what will happen and I have been so worked up that I have lost a bit of sleep over it. This is an event that has been under a lot of debate and has sparked a lot of controversy over the years, but it all comes together on this Tuesday, November 4. Today is the day that Luke is reunited with Laura on General Hospital.

For those of you who don't know the story, Laura was last seen in 2006 when an experimental drug therapy brought her out of a catatonic state brought on by traumatic events from her past. She enjoyed a few weeks of lucidity before reverting back to a vegetative state, but she's back now and was just kidnapped by her former husband, Scott Baldwin. Luke got wind of this and immediately set out to find them, aided by his new wife, Tracy Quartermaine. Confused? It's okay, it's a soap opera.

This popular super couple has divided the General Hospital fan community for years, mainly because of the circumstances that brought them together. Luke raped Laura at a disco in the 70s and she ended up falling in love with him after that horrific affair. Eventually, they started a family, but not before saving the world from Mikos Cassadine and his weather machine.

It's always nice when two people find each other after years of being apart. It gives us a sense of hope in a world full of chaos. It's a love story over thirty five years in the making. So if you do anything today, take a little time to catch up on your soaps.

Oh yeah, there's that election thingy also.