It's a Terry Pratchett thing. In the Discworld novels, any societal advance is described by its proponents as the rest of the world being "dragged kicking and screaming into the Century Of The Fruitbat!"
In the latest books it is pointed out that The Century Of The Fruitbat was *last* century, which makes me laugh a little more when I use it for gay rights, because yes, yes, the US (and other places, the US is just making more progress right now and so gets more mentiond) is finally catching up to THE LAST CENTURY.
I wish I had some faith that there wasn't so many forces - including, sadly, the Obama admin - that are at best just going to sit down and not more or, worse, pull in the opposite direction
I love the one quote in there from the guy claiming the federal government "has a perfectly legal right" to limit marriage. Look at the Constitution, sir. See anything about marriage? I thought not. And all powers not specifically mentioned are reserved for the States.
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Date: 2009-07-10 05:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-10 06:04 pm (UTC)In the latest books it is pointed out that The Century Of The Fruitbat was *last* century, which makes me laugh a little more when I use it for gay rights, because yes, yes, the US (and other places, the US is just making more progress right now and so gets more mentiond) is finally catching up to THE LAST CENTURY.
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Date: 2009-07-10 06:08 pm (UTC)-- Steve probably needs to stop procrastinating on his Pratchett reading. It's been over a decade now...
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Date: 2009-07-10 06:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-10 06:59 pm (UTC)The reread was John and
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