I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
I've been watching a show on NBC that I haven't heard too much buzz about. The Listener is about a paramedic who can read people's thoughts and uses it to help others. Think "Heroes" without the giant cast and a little more believable (if mind-reading can be believable).
It also doesn't hurt that the lead is easy on the eyes, but that's neither here nor there.
I was catching up on some episodes on the TiVo and was pleasantly shocked at last week's show called "Lisa Says." This particular episode deals with the heavy issues facing trans youth: homelessness, not accepting parents, and lack of medical help. In fact it revolves around a young female to male trans youth, something else that has been rather unheard of on prime-time TV.
I think it was of the most positive and realistic depictions of the issues surrounding trans kids I have seen on a fictional TV show...
Of course it is dramatized and heightened a bit. But some of the back and forth between the trans kid and his mother was spot on and quite telling. The mother panics about her child, throwing out church, therapy, and a long list of "fixes." All of it fails to move her son, who simply tells her:
You've already lost your daughter. You're going to lose me as well.
Not only that, but the young kid repeatedly talks about how he's known since he was 6 that he needed to transition.
There is, of course, the typical straight guy response represented by the main character's paramedic partner- who doesn't understand how someone can "choose" to change their gender. This only serves as a set-up for the main character to really drive home the point about making your outside match your insides and giving a really good speech on acceptance.
I was even more surprised that they didn't put a neat little bow on the end of the episode, with the mother coming around and simply accepting her son. The young man decides he can't live with his mother until she gets help to accept him.
So I'm curious to see what the rest of you think, especially our trans readers. Do you see it as a step forward in the coverage of trans kids on TV or something negative?
