Sociopolitically Pleased
Jun. 22nd, 2008 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
browngirlI woke up feeling much more hopeful today than I have in past days, and then I read this in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
supergee's journal and felt even better. John Scalzi on "the first time I actually thought about homophobia was, and the first time it seemed like nonsense to me". I really love it when people tell the stories of transformative epiphanies like this: as ever, there's that wonderful human connection of "I had one of those too!"(my own involves two books I read when I was fourteen, The Last of the Wine and Magic's Pawn); much more importantly and globally, the more people examine and jettison these attitudes in ourselves, the better and more justly we can behave towards each other; plus, I am always inspired by the transformative power of art.
Which is my inappropriately punctuated way of saying how happy this made me. *beam* Even the comments were, at least as of when I finished reading them, heartening and nifty! (So often great posts have comments of disagreement that make one hate humanity all over again.)
supergee's journal and felt even better. John Scalzi on "the first time I actually thought about homophobia was, and the first time it seemed like nonsense to me". I really love it when people tell the stories of transformative epiphanies like this: as ever, there's that wonderful human connection of "I had one of those too!"(my own involves two books I read when I was fourteen, The Last of the Wine and Magic's Pawn); much more importantly and globally, the more people examine and jettison these attitudes in ourselves, the better and more justly we can behave towards each other; plus, I am always inspired by the transformative power of art. Which is my inappropriately punctuated way of saying how happy this made me. *beam* Even the comments were, at least as of when I finished reading them, heartening and nifty! (So often great posts have comments of disagreement that make one hate humanity all over again.)
