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Funny, I work well with them at work, but get me away from work and I fail at to do lists.

Give me a list of things I should do - even things I want to do - and I will find ANYTHING to distract me from that list. Even things I don't want to do - even things that bore me. The mere fact they're not on the to-do list will make them infinitely more attractive to me.

So currently I have 6 lj posts to make (which I enjoy) forums to catch up on (which I enjoy) car insurance to sort out (which I really DON'T enjoy and usually go with the bulldog because he vaguely amuses me), sort out my dreamwidth thingy and at some point I really should do some work....

So I find myself reading webcomic archives.

This? Is not constructive.


10 more minutes. Then I'll work. I swear

Let me have a moment of Blistering Rage.

Sacha Baron-Cohen..

GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR POOL.

If you are not gay, do not pretend to be gay so you can get some laughs. It’s bloody ANNOYING. As I’ve said frequently before http://community.livejournal.com/thisthingwedo/6082.html?thread=166338#t166338 but never here. So let me be clear on who very very VERY much I loathe it when straight people pretend to be gay for entertainment purposes

We pretend to be straight to just MANAGE and these people pretend to be gay for fun? Most of us have spent some time in the closet. Most of us hide at least some of the time. Most of us are forced to create a false persona on some level - we're FORCED to lie about ourselves - and to see these people lying about being gay to make money out of it... it annoys. We don't get to go home and say "just kidding." We don't get to be part-time gay when it suits us and when it benefits us. We don't get to turn it on and off and assume gayness when it's convenient. We use lies to survive, hiding, subverting our identity and these people do it and assume our identity for money?

It's a mockery. Some of us go through hell to be who and what we are and these people want to play in the shallow end of our pool while we dodge the sharks? Oh, and while paddling along watching us dodge sharks they use their presence in the pool to try profit? Of course, always been ready to get out the pool if the water gets cold or some storms start swirling in.

So, Sacha Baron-Cohen, with your ridiculous “Bruno” character, get the fuck out of our pool. You’re not one of us and you don’t get to pretend to be without pissing people off.

ESPECIALLY since the only way straight “entertainers” can manage to portray a clearly gay character is by stringing together a series of utterly insulting stereotypes and then treating us to a “fabulous” caricature. Yeah. Thanks for that.

What? You made this character to point out people’s homophobia? Assumed it out of irony? Well, sorry, you can’t. You CAN’T appropriate the silly ideas straight people have about us because they are YOUR IDEAS. You ARE straight. You CANNOT appropriate the oppressor’s language when YOU ARE THE OPPRESSOR. You don’t get to play that game.

Don’t you realise? You’re not a social commentator LAUGHING at the idiotic things straight people believe. You’re a group of straight people laughing at US and the idiotic and insulting ideas idea you have perpetuated about us.

And now your latest stunt with Eminem? Detailed here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5421962/MTV-Movie-Awards-Sacha-Baron-Cohens-Bruno-jumps-on-Eminem.html

“Bruno” is suspended over the audience as a half-naked gay angel in a skirt and jock strap (ye gods!) who falls onto Eminem in such a way that his naked arse and jock-strap clad balls are thrust into Eminem’s face.

Gods, do I have to go into how wrong this is? I don’t care how vilely homophobia Eminem is, you shoved your head in his lap and your arse and groin in his face. That’s called sexual assault and that’s NEVER acceptable.

And extra points for perpetuating that idiot idea that all gay men are predators just looking to ravish every straight man we meet. Do you have ANY idea how many gay men are assaulted, beaten and even bloody KILLED because of straight folk’s gay panic? It’s even been used as a LEGAL defence. Thank you for feeding into the idiot paranoia that sends so many of us to hospital. Thanks a whole fucking bunch.