I haven't really been following it, either, because it makes me depressed and disgusted with human nature. :-/
Not only is the column ideologically appalling, it's a bad article. There's no real argument there at all; it's sensationalist fear/hatemongering disguised as an opinion piece. grr.
The thing that struck me about "I wonder how many people give a damn" is that, you know what? I think Rosemary's wrong about New Zealanders. I think most of NZ may not want to go march up and down the streets about gay marriage and gay civil liberties, but I also do not think the majority of NZers are afraid of homosexuality, believe it's unnatural, or hate and fear homosexuals. She suggests quite a few times in her article that most NZers much prefer things the way they were... but to some extent I think that's because *she* does. Because if NZ hates gays, well, for a party full of fags, dykes and transsexual ex-prostitutes Labour sure did do well last election.
After the defeat of staunch lesbian leader Jenny Shipley in the 1999 election the National Party looked to its members list for alternatives and found only rich white farmers and Pansy Wong. They selected the best looking one, a human/android hybrid named Bill English C29000 a.k.a. The Education Bot, to run their platform.
AHAHAHAHAHAAH YOU FOR THE WIN. *tears from eyes*
Gosh, I miss Bill. I'm thinking of campaigning for him, because, well, it's him or John Key and well... Key's a Young Conservative. *blecch*
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Date: 2006-07-16 11:11 am (UTC)Not only is the column ideologically appalling, it's a bad article. There's no real argument there at all; it's sensationalist fear/hatemongering disguised as an opinion piece. grr.
The thing that struck me about "I wonder how many people give a damn" is that, you know what? I think Rosemary's wrong about New Zealanders. I think most of NZ may not want to go march up and down the streets about gay marriage and gay civil liberties, but I also do not think the majority of NZers are afraid of homosexuality, believe it's unnatural, or hate and fear homosexuals. She suggests quite a few times in her article that most NZers much prefer things the way they were... but to some extent I think that's because *she* does. Because if NZ hates gays, well, for a party full of fags, dykes and transsexual ex-prostitutes Labour sure did do well last election.
After the defeat of staunch lesbian leader Jenny Shipley in the 1999 election the National Party looked to its members list for alternatives and found only rich white farmers and Pansy Wong. They selected the best looking one, a human/android hybrid named Bill English C29000 a.k.a. The Education Bot, to run their platform.
AHAHAHAHAHAAH YOU FOR THE WIN. *tears from eyes*
Gosh, I miss Bill. I'm thinking of campaigning for him, because, well, it's him or John Key and well... Key's a Young Conservative. *blecch*