*shiver* Reminder of the good…

I am very glad that the senior partners decided to step back from their sudden obsessive need to modernise the office. I’m glad they decided to throw out all that glass and chrome (ewww) and pale, ikea-esque furniture and the interior-designer carpet and the abstract modern prints on the beige and cream and magnolia walls.
I am very glad you realised, in time, that the old oak furniture and wood panneling and wooden furniture and high vaulted ceilings and glorious victoriana added tone and gravitas and weight to the office. I’m glad you finally came to your senses.

However, while I love the traditional feel of the building, I would appreciate it if the heating system were not actuall Victorian. Because those beautiful windows are as effective as soggy tracing paper at holding in the heat and those vaulted ceilings hold a whole lot of cold – and the boiler, oh the boiler. How many times has it broken down this winter? Here’s a hint, if the water in the boiler freezes then it is not, actually boiling.

And yes it was neccessary to kneel outside your door with coal-dust smudged faces (well, graphite anyway) and wolly scarfs asking Scrooge if we could have another lump of coal for the fire.

Attempts to help gay youth – met with bigotry, hatred, the Tories and the Daily Mail

February in the UK is LGBT history month. Now, as I’ve said before I have a lot of problems with various history months (and do let’s insert the snark about “shortest month” here), but one thing I don’t regret is the portrayal of LGBT people in education. Kids need to see we have worth, that we exist that we’re not aberrations or sins or diseased. And that’s doubly so for LGBT kids.

So, one of the best things that is happening during this month are lessons that have an LGBT slant. Lessons with LGBT themes, lessons so our kids can see people like themselves once in a very great while.

And of course the haters got to hate. The haters and the bigots cannot possibly allow any attempt to tell our children they have value or worth, cannot allow any attempt to try and reduce their pain or the appalling suicide rate that takes so many of our youth.

First we have homophobic conservative (oh I suppose the “homophobic” is redundant since I’ve already identified the Tory) MP Craig Whittaker who believes all these silly attempts to stop internalised homophobia, homophobic bullying and gay suicide are just “nonsense” And it would seem that Tory MP Richard Drax is not only a homophobe who agrees with such bigotry, but is also a coward since he instantly edited them away when it was noticed and tweeted Ah Tories, still trying to convince me you’ve changed?

And we have this poisonous bigot, Melanie Phillips from the Daily Mail – and do we really expect better from the paper of Jan Moir and her evil venom?

She is afraid that us gays have a “ruthless agenda” to destroy “normal sexuality” because you see we’re not normal. We’re freaks and diseased and other and corrupting the precious, proper, real straight people and their pure real sexuality. And of course telling them that gay people exist is an “abuse.”

See, telling a gay kid that they’re ok being gay and there’s nothing wrong with them? That’s an abuse. That’s child abuse apparently. Far better to wait until eh commit suicide – the Daily Mail and Melanie Phillips would much prefer that

Of course she thinks including non-sexual references to gay people in education is absurd. Absurd? Our existence is absurd?

No, do you know what is absurd? Her implication that being gay will become mandatory. That is beyond absurd. Seriously? Mandatory homosexuality? Everyone will have to become gay?

Really I can’t comment on the article, I cna’t. Reading it is nauseating, it is that bad – easily as bad as the evil flowing from Jan Moir

The Daily Mail is pushing new limits of hatred with this one.

Words cannot express how every little attempt to stop the suffering of GBLT people, especially our young, is met by such vehement opposition. It’s sadistic, it’s cruel and it’s evil

We know that the PCC won’t do anything after the Jan Moir debacle, we know the PCC supports and encourages homophobia. However, as in the previous trainwreck from this paper of hate, we can talk to the advertisers

Marks & Spencers
Vodaphone
Axa
Samsung

Are all advertising on this page. This is what their products are associating with – and they are places where my money will not go while they continue to support this evil

Well that’s a new one

Memo to most senior partner:

Re: Client Arsehole. Terminated interview and stopped all work because the bastard assaulted me.  I am not on call tonight.

*sigh*

Well the job is never boring, I have to give it that.

(P.S. Can we stop with these flexible interview bullshit now? They are made of badness. If they’re not in prison, office hours, damn it.)