Stereotypes: Maybe They're True After All

I've followed, more with morbid curiosity than real interest, the case of Constance McMillen, the Mississippi high school student who made the mistake of asking permission from the so-called authorities to be her self and was told, in as many words, 'No.'

The ACLU, and I have no love for that bunch of asshead lawyers but even assheads are sometimes right, sued on her behalf and got a ruling in her favor, but since a 'private prom' was already planned the judge didn't make the backward hillbillies who apparently run this school district put the party back on.

Big mistake, judge. The 'private' organizers pretended they were doing what the law and common decency requires, while staging an elaborate hoax in which this poor girl and a half dozen or so other kids showed up at the wrong place while the supposedly 'normal' kids got to have their heterosexual only prom without the 'distraction' of a chick in a tux with a female date.

Parents, and from what I can tell, school administrators were in on this cruel and senseless prank. These are adults, adults who probably believe I should fear my children being in contact with gays. I fear my children being in contact with the kind of immature, bigoted jerks who would help their children pull a stunt like this.



I know, some of you just say, 'I don't agree with that.' Which is bullshit. I didn't choose to be straight anymore than this chick chose be queer and if you think choice enters into it you're obviously bisexual and should not be trying to impose half of your natural instinct on someone else. A girl in a tux dancing with another girl is not hurting anyone. You want to protect your 18 year old offspring from such a sight? Good luck if that person is going to live outside some hick enclave of Mississippi or attend a college of some sort.

Some stereotypes seem to have a basis in reality. Whatever these people might think of teenage lesbians, all people in Mississippi are ignorant hayseeds who brush their tooth with their finger until proven otherwise.