Sorry to keep ranting, but I’m pissed.
According to this news story, Bush said (at a fundraiser, because that’s all any politician does and will do until 2005), while “a Democrat in the White House would bring higher taxes while opposing ‘every idea that gives Americans more authority and more choices and more control over our own lives.’”
So, since homosexuals are one of the few groups against whom discrimination is legal and governmentally sanctioned, does that make them unAmerican? They do not have the choice to enter into legally-binding monogamous relationships in every state, for instance. Until recently, they did not have the choice to make consenual love to their partner without facing criminal consequences. Authority for whom? Choices for whom? Control for whom?
And don’t even get me started on abortion and the loaded word of choice there.
Sister, the only choices that matter to the Patriarchy are economic, for, as we all know, money makes the hegemony go ‘round.
And, as we also all know, only white men in suits are “real” Americans because they’re the ones making the economic decisions to begin with.
Feeling reified yet?