Comments on: Growing Up Gay in 2013: Joe Schwartz, the teen in "Oddly Normal" http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/growing-up-gay-in-2013-joe-sc.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 23:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Wreckrob8 http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/growing-up-gay-in-2013-joe-sc.html#comment-1638481 Wreckrob8 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=208402#comment-1638481 Absolutely. He seems naively oblivious of the distinctions and contradictions between sex, sexuality and gender. What, I hope, he may be trying to get at is that problems of sex, sexuality and gender are caused by those who are painfully aware of their distinctions and contradictions and, perhaps, we should all aspire to a state of painless, joyous awareness of sex, sexuality and gender leaving us able to devote our energies to more pressing problems of privilege, class and economic inequality. C'mon. He is very young still. (Now I feel very old.) Absolutely. He seems naively oblivious of the distinctions and contradictions between sex, sexuality and gender. What, I hope, he may be trying to get at is that problems of sex, sexuality and gender are caused by those who are painfully aware of their distinctions and contradictions and, perhaps, we should all aspire to a state of painless, joyous awareness of sex, sexuality and gender leaving us able to devote our energies to more pressing problems of privilege, class and economic inequality.
C’mon. He is very young still.

(Now I feel very old.)

]]> By: That_Anonymous_Coward http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/growing-up-gay-in-2013-joe-sc.html#comment-1638473 That_Anonymous_Coward Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=208402#comment-1638473 " It sucks that it sucks to be gay. Fuck 'em." See this leads to the problem, the absolute fear bred into teh str8s who are scared we do want to fuck 'em. ” It sucks that it sucks to be gay. Fuck ‘em.”
See this leads to the problem, the absolute fear bred into teh str8s who are scared we do want to fuck ‘em.

]]> By: timbearcub http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/growing-up-gay-in-2013-joe-sc.html#comment-1638357 timbearcub Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=208402#comment-1638357 Scarily erudite and aware of privlege...only that comment about contra-gender fell wrong...he might be a theatre queen but not all of us are, and yes it is a pernicious stereotype for a reason...and yup local observation in theatre capital New York does not automaically mean a wider trend. Posting here since the article's comment system seems down... Scarily erudite and aware of privlege…only that comment about contra-gender fell wrong…he might be a theatre queen but not all of us are, and yes it is a pernicious stereotype for a reason…and yup local observation in theatre capital New York does not automaically mean a wider trend. Posting here since the article’s comment system seems down…

]]> By: daev http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/growing-up-gay-in-2013-joe-sc.html#comment-1638299 daev Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=208402#comment-1638299 Too much panic in this world. Too much panic in this world.

]]> By: daev http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/growing-up-gay-in-2013-joe-sc.html#comment-1638289 daev Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=208402#comment-1638289 // Please don't screw this up, okay? Don't back //down. Be active. Maybe try using some of that //executive power on the states' rights jackasses. //Don't drop the ball. Agreed with all but line 3. He's going to inflame the right if he pulls Liberal Justice from the sheath and Decrees that we all subjugate to him and stop being afraid teh gheys. Pointless. This is one smart kid. No offense, Joe, I think you're far better prepared for the world than I was at 17, and I'm straight. It sucks that it sucks to be gay. Fuck 'em. I'm disappointed that so many people think their personal principles justify denial of other peoples rights. // Please don’t screw this up, okay? Don’t back
//down. Be active. Maybe try
using some of that
//executive power on the states’ rights jackasses.

//Don’t drop the
ball.

Agreed with all but line 3. He’s going to inflame the right if he pulls Liberal Justice from the sheath and Decrees that we all subjugate to him and stop being afraid teh gheys. Pointless.

This is one smart kid. No offense, Joe, I think you’re far better prepared for the world than I was at 17, and I’m straight. It sucks that it sucks to be gay. Fuck ‘em. I’m disappointed that so many people think their personal principles justify denial of other peoples rights.

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