Been too vocal in the monthly Mob meetings recently? Been caught on camera trying to shoot a president? No fear, because soon you could have a whole new face to protect you. Will this be the end of the open coffins revolution?
Although I can see the point of this for people with serious disfigurement, I think many questions remain unanswered — like, how are the relatives going to react when they see their family member’s face on someone else? Also, if it ends up in the domain of cosmetic surgery (which I can so see happening) then what’s to stop criminals getting completely new faces to protect themselves? If this really happens, then Mary Carey may well be onto a winner in the form of cosmetic surgery tax.
Over in America, in what is possibly the best (and possibly the worst) step towards gay marriage, the state of Massachusetts has ruled that gay couples are legally entitled to marry, saying that barring it was “unconstitutional”. This is fantastic, but the potential conservative backlash, including Bush vowing to constitutionally make marriage defined as heterosexual could be a major step backward. And although I would love to believe that liberal Americans will not let this happen, he still managed to invade Iraq, so my confidence is not rock-solid.
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November 19th, 2003 at 10:48 PM
Oh be quiet you 300lb bull dike.
November 20th, 2003 at 10:14 AM
W000t!! I got my first homophobic comment to validate my opinion!
And to set the record straight (har har) I’m neither 300lb nor a bulldyke 😉
LOL Homophobes can’t spell
November 20th, 2003 at 3:19 PM
Congratulations on your fist homophobe. *shudders*
November 21st, 2003 at 1:21 AM
What is this phobia thing? Phobia means fear. When’s the last time you saw someone quivering in the corner just because some homo walked by.?
I find lima beans disgusting. So what do I have lima-phobia..? Every time I see a lima bean I grab my can of mace….because I’m just so scared.
November 21st, 2003 at 10:21 AM
Fair point. I think that the phobia stuff is related to hatred and fear … and people have alternative reactions to both emotions. Some will “quiver in the corner” as you say, but many will lash out. Common usage just denotes a homophobic as someone who hates/fears/misunderstands homosexuals and therefore lashes out at them, either verbally or (in far too many cases) physically. To be fair it should be used to describe anyone found sat in a corner in fear too. I’ll try to promote that definition as well 😉
November 21st, 2003 at 11:39 AM
I do like the mental image of people hiding in corners in fear of homosexuals. It amuses me greatly.
November 25th, 2003 at 5:47 PM
I think that marriage should cease to be recognised by law, and should be replaced across the board by civil unions covered by existing contract laws. If people want to call a union a marriage, that’s up to them. If they want some religion to bless it, that’s between them and their coreligionists. But it’s not up to governments and laws to impose their ideas of “norms” on us.
June 1st, 2004 at 5:50 PM
How do you solve a problem like gay marriage? I think homosexuals ought to realize that even if gay marriage becomes codified into law, it still doesn’t solve the problem that in order to reproduce you have to have a male and a female. Gays adopt, have surrogate mothers or sperm donors, but what about those who want to then have partners of threesomes, foursomes, etc.? Isn’t that getting a little crazy?
June 2nd, 2004 at 8:08 AM
blimpie,
Although gay couples might need help to reproduce, so do many straight couples these days. Surrogate parenting and IVF were hardly developed for the gay majority 😉 Does that make those heterosexual marriages invalid?
Equally, threesomes & foursomes is hardly the sole hunting ground of homosexuals. In fact if you pay attention, most ongoing threesomes are the result of a straight couple adding an extra partner (usually a woman). So should heterosexuals be denied marriage if they’d ever had a threesome? That would make things interesting!
At the end of the day, marriage isn’t just about children anymore. It’s about legal standing, protecting your family, health insurance, life insurance, business, salaries and every other aspect of business and personal life. You should be glad we’re taking it so seriously — hell, if we didn’t want it wouldn’t that undermine the importance of the institution itself? 😉