Comments on: Commentary: With Friends Like These… http://thenewgay.net/2008/09/with-friends-like-these.html For Everyone Over the Rainbow Thu, 24 May 2012 04:53:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: coach http://thenewgay.net/2008/09/with-friends-like-these.html#comment-5248 coach Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:34:00 +0000 http://tngmichael.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/with-friends-like-these/#comment-5248 ok so devil's advocate here--i'm pretty ambivalent about marriage and birthing babies, and sometimes i wonder why queers aren't more critical of the culture of consumption revolving around wedding and baby crazed-ness. i see straight people as just as culpable in this. sometimes i feel like queers replicate straight culture in ways that are dissappointing. <br/>this is not to take anything away from people struggling to get married or have kids or adopt--i think k.g.'s career spins on being flip, and i think that's what was happening with this statement. ok so devil’s advocate here–i’m pretty ambivalent about marriage and birthing babies, and sometimes i wonder why queers aren’t more critical of the culture of consumption revolving around wedding and baby crazed-ness. i see straight people as just as culpable in this. sometimes i feel like queers replicate straight culture in ways that are dissappointing.
this is not to take anything away from people struggling to get married or have kids or adopt–i think k.g.’s career spins on being flip, and i think that’s what was happening with this statement.

]]> By: Allison http://thenewgay.net/2008/09/with-friends-like-these.html#comment-5247 Allison Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:24:00 +0000 http://tngmichael.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/with-friends-like-these/#comment-5247 Craig:<br/><br/>Good post. I saw that episode as well. It seems that Kathy's joke was a combination of her commenting on her own inner circle, while being insecure about her act on the 'on land' cruise. she also puts a great emphasis on her large gay following and gives her self this creative license to make these these comments, without looking at the larger picture. Craig:

Good post. I saw that episode as well. It seems that Kathy’s joke was a combination of her commenting on her own inner circle, while being insecure about her act on the ‘on land’ cruise. she also puts a great emphasis on her large gay following and gives her self this creative license to make these these comments, without looking at the larger picture.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thenewgay.net/2008/09/with-friends-like-these.html#comment-5246 Anonymous Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:49:00 +0000 http://tngmichael.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/with-friends-like-these/#comment-5246 Good post Craig. Straights are often careless with their privilege. To me the worst one of all is Madonna - she freely exploits gays and people of color. bell hooks (aka Gloria Watkins, Professor at Berea College) has a very good analysis of this type of expoitation in her book Black Looks. I strongly recommend it as means of understanding how bigotry works in general at the mainstream cultural level.<br/><br/>Black Looks: Race and Representation<br/>bell hooks<br/>ISBN: 0-89608-433-7<br/>Release Date: 1992-01-01 Good post Craig. Straights are often careless with their privilege. To me the worst one of all is Madonna – she freely exploits gays and people of color. bell hooks (aka Gloria Watkins, Professor at Berea College) has a very good analysis of this type of expoitation in her book Black Looks. I strongly recommend it as means of understanding how bigotry works in general at the mainstream cultural level.

Black Looks: Race and Representation
bell hooks
ISBN: 0-89608-433-7
Release Date: 1992-01-01

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