And this is me entirely not surprised. Did anyone really expect the IOC to allow the gestures all the apologists were saying were going to happen? I mean, really? It's hardly a pro-gay organisation and, unlike all the lies people keep telling to raise the IOC up, homophobia is certainly one of the Olympics traditions; the anti-discrimination charter of the IOC ignores sexual orientation and gender identity.
Of course, we can't boycott because athletes being unable to ski will be a deeply tragic hardship - and is totally more important than gay people being persecuted, silenced and outright murdered with government consent. No boycott and not even a token protest (for what good that will do), everyone gather to celebrate, don't mind the blood they're wading through - it's gay blood, it doesn't matter.
homophobia is certainly one of the Olympics traditions
Not of you go back far enough. Say, to the original Olympics.
But your point is taken: the sporting industry is not exactly the most progressive environment in the world. But who cares! Let the games go on! Vive la hate! I mean, it's not like it's any of my problem, is it? I'm not going, won't watch it since we gave away the telly, don't eat McDonalds anyway (though I suspect I might have a Nike football somewhere... pulled out of the river by a dog); I'm not even gay, so what business is it of mine if a hateful government wants to make an internationally cherished sporting event materially threatening to a segment of its participants and fans? It's the law of their land. Guess we better just deal with it.
You and your radical existence! Stirring things up like you are.
(The title of something in particular is coming to mind... oh, right. This. (Because apparently only weird things are political statements. Being straight, that's just fucking normal-- ugh, I'm gonna be sick.))
I remember a forum conversation where I suggested that some of the NPCs maybe should be female, maybe a woman warrior for change, here's my suggestion, for a D&D world (and not, say, a so-called "historical" setting).
I was told by one of the posters not to make it a political issue.
Because women and their desires are political issues, apparently, by default.
You can totally boycott viewing and being a participant in the Olympics, but I feel like asking someone to give up on what is entirely possibly their only chance at a lifelong dream that they have dedicated themselves too as a gesture of protest is a lot less trivial than saying that someone being unable to ski is a deeply tragic hardship. I'm presuming sarcasm on your part there given the context so sorry if it was said in earnest. Protests and boycotts by athletes would be powerful, especially in this context, but that isn't to say that there is only extremes of go and murder gay people, or boycott and personally end homophobia. There are a world of opportunities in and out of the Olympics to support the LGBT community and strive toward equality.
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Date: 2013-08-16 05:25 pm (UTC)Of course, we can't boycott because athletes being unable to ski will be a deeply tragic hardship - and is totally more important than gay people being persecuted, silenced and outright murdered with government consent. No boycott and not even a token protest (for what good that will do), everyone gather to celebrate, don't mind the blood they're wading through - it's gay blood, it doesn't matter.
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Date: 2013-08-16 05:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-16 05:29 pm (UTC)...wait, I'm also a woman, women are also political statements!
I'm DOUBLE-political!
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Date: 2013-08-17 10:10 am (UTC)Not of you go back far enough. Say, to the original Olympics.
But your point is taken: the sporting industry is not exactly the most progressive environment in the world. But who cares! Let the games go on! Vive la hate! I mean, it's not like it's any of my problem, is it? I'm not going, won't watch it since we gave away the telly, don't eat McDonalds anyway (though I suspect I might have a Nike football somewhere... pulled out of the river by a dog); I'm not even gay, so what business is it of mine if a hateful government wants to make an internationally cherished sporting event materially threatening to a segment of its participants and fans? It's the law of their land. Guess we better just deal with it.
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Date: 2013-08-17 03:08 pm (UTC)(The title of something in particular is coming to mind... oh, right. This. (Because apparently only weird things are political statements. Being straight, that's just fucking normal-- ugh, I'm gonna be sick.))
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Date: 2013-08-17 03:24 pm (UTC)I remember a forum conversation where I suggested that some of the NPCs maybe should be female, maybe a woman warrior for change, here's my suggestion, for a D&D world (and not, say, a so-called "historical" setting).
I was told by one of the posters not to make it a political issue.
Because women and their desires are political issues, apparently, by default.
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Date: 2013-08-21 09:54 am (UTC)