Culture Warriors category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Charlotte Observer’s Taylor Batten looks at a champion of North Carolina’s “It’s Okay To Hate the Gay” law and realizes he’s seen it all before. A nugget:
Now (state senator Buck–ed.) Newton, who is running to be North Carolina’s attorney general, bellows about “how hard we must fight to keep our state straight.” He invokes the threat that those who oppose state-sanctioned discrimination against gays will “expose our wives and our sisters and our children to the sexual predators in the bathrooms.” He says that “the folks that wave the rainbow flags” need to get used to “the way things have always been in this state.” Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
Read the rest.
The Pervy Party’s Preposterous Preoccupation with Potties 0
The Charlotte Observer talks to a transgender man about life under the reign of the Tarheel Potty Patrol.
Feel the Draft 0
Somewhere, I still have my draft card.
People of the Book 0
No, no, no. That other book.
Card-Carrying 0
Alexandra Petri plays Trump with her “woman card.”
I have been carrying one of these for years, proudly.
It is great. It entitles you to a sizable discount on your earnings everywhere you go (average 21 percent, but can be anywhere from 9 percent to 37 percent, depending on what study you’re reading and what edition of the Woman Card you have.) If you shop with the Woman Card at the grocery, you will get to pay 11 percent more for all the same products as men, but now they are pink.
Read the rest. Collect the full deck.
But wait! The card pays strange dividends.
States’ Rights . . . 0
. . . are a sometime thing.
Without taking a stand on the specific legal issue at at stake, I can still point out that some states clearly think that they are more equal than others.
The Politics of Peep Shows 0
Facing South examines businesses’ reaction to Mississippi’s “It’s Okay To Hate the Gay” Law and finds that they brought onto themselves.
But many of the companies objecting to the law had a hand in helping elect its sponsors and the governor who signed it.
In all, 24 companies publicly opposing HB 1523 either directly supported Bryant and state House sponsors via campaign donations, indirectly helped them by making donations to outside political spending groups that funneled money back into state elections, or both. In all, the anti-HB 1523 companies donated almost $14.6 million to help elect pro-HB 1523 politicians.
As you recall, Facing South found the same thing in North Carolina.
These businesses voted their pocketbooks with their pocketbooks and ended up sanctioning peep shows for pervy pols.
I Read It on the Internet . . . 0
. . . so it must be true.
The Pervy Party 0
In related news, there is no truth to the rumor that North Carolina and Mississippi are considering mandates that all private residences henceforth have separate male and female restrooms.
Meanwhile, Bob Cesca leads us to wonder whether Republicans are looking in the bathroom mirror and seeing their own reflection.
Image via Juanita Jean.
American Taliban, Making America a Pariah One State at a Time 3
The government of the United Kingdom warns LGBT persons to take care when visiting the United States. Here’s the story from The Independent:
“LGBT travellers may be affected by legislations passed recently in the states of North Carolina and Mississippi.”
“Before travelling please read our general travel advice for the LGBT community.
You can read the full warning at the UK government website.
This is the sort of stuff that, when I was a young ‘un back in the olden days, the United States Department of State would say about visiting, say, eastern Europe or Rhodesia.
Jesus.
