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Why the Bad News lists?
Oct. 1st, 2011 09:14 pmAs you know, I do my Bad News Lists. And one compelling quesiton I even ask myself is “why?”
Obviously I don't do these lists for fun, far from it. They're painful, cringe worthy and generally horrible lists to compile and cause no small number of grey hairs. They're not fun or enjoyable and I'm not exactly resilient or immune here. Bear baiting and rattle snake juggling may be more fun, less painful and generally safer hobbies.
I do not produce them for news sake – my lists are rarely sufficiently recent to be an action alert nor wide enough to be a summary of anti-GBLT bullshit out there. In fact, people looking for news I urge you to go out there and find multiple sources to try and get you some fractured image of the total picture – do not by any stretch rely on my blog. I catch less than a fraction of a percent of what's out there, if that – and I don;t think anyone catches more than a fraction of a percent and I only show a fraction of what is caught. I know from experience that there have been 3 violent anti-gay attacks in my city alone this month that are more severe than much of what I include and haven't appeared in any publication. Reporting of hate crimes is fraught, reporting within a closeted community more so and of those that are reported, them then being picked up by the press to any great level – and then that (often local) press being noticed elsewhere
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Obviously I don't do these lists for fun, far from it. They're painful, cringe worthy and generally horrible lists to compile and cause no small number of grey hairs. They're not fun or enjoyable and I'm not exactly resilient or immune here. Bear baiting and rattle snake juggling may be more fun, less painful and generally safer hobbies.
I do not produce them for news sake – my lists are rarely sufficiently recent to be an action alert nor wide enough to be a summary of anti-GBLT bullshit out there. In fact, people looking for news I urge you to go out there and find multiple sources to try and get you some fractured image of the total picture – do not by any stretch rely on my blog. I catch less than a fraction of a percent of what's out there, if that – and I don;t think anyone catches more than a fraction of a percent and I only show a fraction of what is caught. I know from experience that there have been 3 violent anti-gay attacks in my city alone this month that are more severe than much of what I include and haven't appeared in any publication. Reporting of hate crimes is fraught, reporting within a closeted community more so and of those that are reported, them then being picked up by the press to any great level – and then that (often local) press being noticed elsewhere
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