Comments on: New Washington Ref 71 Ad http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/21/15816 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Wed, 22 May 2013 00:59:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Priya Lynn http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/21/15816/comment-page-1#comment-52253 Priya Lynn Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:34:23 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=15816#comment-52253 GreenEyedLilo, that "maybe you should just give up surfing" comment makes me angry as well. You have to be pretty thoughtless and heartless to think giving up surfing would mean that no one would ever be put in this situation again. GreenEyedLilo, that “maybe you should just give up surfing” comment makes me angry as well. You have to be pretty thoughtless and heartless to think giving up surfing would mean that no one would ever be put in this situation again.

]]> By: GreenEyedLilo http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/21/15816/comment-page-1#comment-52249 GreenEyedLilo Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:45:39 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=15816#comment-52249 Thank you, Charlene Strong, for channeling your pain to such a positive end. This is my nightmare right here, because my wife was almost not allowed to see me in the hospital a couple years ago after I'd surfed into a sailboat, even though she and my friends took me to the ER. I screamed and cried and caused a scene until a sympathetic nurse made the doctor relent, and then I immediately passed out. (I didn't even remember doing that until my wife, the nurse, and two friends told me.) Not everyone can do that. I remember telling this story to a couple of people who are against SSM, and being told, "Maybe you should just give up surfing." I guess it's as easy for a non-surfer to tell a surfer to "just" give up her hobby as it is for a homophobic straight person to tell a queer one to "just" give up the love of her life. And things happen *everywhere*. One of us could as easily be hit by a bus, knock on wood. Kate Fleming was at home, working, living her life and minding her business. Death takes you when it will. It is inevitable. But prejudice, and horrible treatment because of prejudice, is NOT. We can fight that! We must fight that! Thank you, Charlene Strong, for channeling your pain to such a positive end. This is my nightmare right here, because my wife was almost not allowed to see me in the hospital a couple years ago after I’d surfed into a sailboat, even though she and my friends took me to the ER. I screamed and cried and caused a scene until a sympathetic nurse made the doctor relent, and then I immediately passed out. (I didn’t even remember doing that until my wife, the nurse, and two friends told me.) Not everyone can do that.

I remember telling this story to a couple of people who are against SSM, and being told, “Maybe you should just give up surfing.” I guess it’s as easy for a non-surfer to tell a surfer to “just” give up her hobby as it is for a homophobic straight person to tell a queer one to “just” give up the love of her life. And things happen *everywhere*. One of us could as easily be hit by a bus, knock on wood. Kate Fleming was at home, working, living her life and minding her business.

Death takes you when it will. It is inevitable. But prejudice, and horrible treatment because of prejudice, is NOT. We can fight that! We must fight that!

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