Heart-felt handshake
Dawn Eden sent me this tip on Planned Parenthood's Teenwire guide to choosing LGBTQ-Friendly college. Most of the time I blast PP for not only their immoral advocacy but how their advocacy always manages to be helpful for their bottom line. They stay in the black because of the red blood spilled being the largest abortion provider. So it is harder to see how their support of homosexuals helps them out substantially. I mean talk about fool proof contraception and zero chance of an "accidental" pregnancy. Only part of the LGPTQ equation is a source of income for them, though I guess STD and HIV testing is another income stream. Their advocacy though is pretty consistent. Encourage sex as being seen as nothing more than a heart-felt handshake across the board for almost any situation or combination of people and sure enough you will be drumming up business somewhere.
It seems that every time I see the latest alphabet soup they have added another letter to it. I thought that Q might have been a redundancy of of the first two letters, but it stands for questioning. Give it a couple more years and they would round up the rest of the letters with some niche sexual area. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-Friendly though doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
Looking at a list they linked to of the top 50 LGPTQ-Friendly schools I was happily surprised that only one Catholic universities made it to the list. DePaul University in Chicago has been working harder lately to earn such a dubious distinction. Some Jesuits might be upset that a Vincentian school made it to the list despite some of their efforts. Okay that was just a little Jesuit jab and not a full blown bash so don't comment about the good Jesuits.
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Whenever PP needs protestors to counterdemonstrate they call in the gay contingent. It is an alliance that was not made in heaven.
"don't comment about the good Jesuits" - - - That's dispicable that you would go so far as to limit comments about Jesuits to damnations. The only person damned here is YOU! DIE DIE DIE!
(Ok, so for those of you who think I'm serious... that was a joke.)
I know quite a few lesbian girls and I was pretty surprised to learn that they all take birth control. At first I thought, "Oh well, quite a few of them have had hetero relationships in the past, or consider themselves to be bisexual at heart, maybe that's why." But then I realized both members of a fairly committed couple were taking it too, regularly, like you or I might take vitamins. It was then that I decided I must be the only girl on campus who doesn't take a monthly trip to the drugstore or fuss over whether my insurance will cover the shot. This love of and attachment to birth control is blessedly beyond my ablility to understand.
I'll comment on the Jesuits. I'm sure surprised to see that the University of San Francisco is not on there. The LGBTQ group here is not only tolerated, but praised (the Jesuit president no less) for being (paraphrased) "one of the premiere groups for spreading diversity and social justice on campus."
Re: lesbians and birth control
Only a guess, but perhaps they take it for the effect of supressing ovulation, which causes those up & down moments in emotions, and reducing the lenght & heaviness of their menses. Women have little patience with emotional outburts even though we all have 'em (as everyone hates in others what they hate in themselves). The Pill & the shots reduce those things - in effect, it makes women 'more like' men, whose fertility stays on a pretty level course.
Men usually just make themselves scarce in such moments - hit the garage to fix a 'mysterious sound' in the engine, or go fishing. Women usually get snippy in the face of strong, unpleasant emotions - and nature also makes their cycles united to the dominent female's cycle. So all that estrogen would get crazy-making between them.
They are simply using it to stop being what God made them to be - fertility apparently gets in the way of even already sterile relationships.
Okay - I'm out of date - what does the 'T' stand for? I'm afraid to google the acronym.
T- transsexual
I have actually met a girl who said her sexual orientation was "questioning." She just wasn't sure what she was. So many more choices these days, I guess.
I suppose suggesting abstinence to the questioning population is out of the question.
The lingo now is that you "identify" as this or that -- a bisexual currently identifying as lesbian and so on. The continuum model is, I gather, becoming accepted in Gender Studies departments. That is, no one is "gay" or "straight" or whatever. You just fall in on some point on a continuum which runs between being attracted to solely to your own sex and being attracted to solely the other sex. Your place on the continuum can change over time or as you become more in touch with yourself. And of course, absolutes are not really believed in; anyone who insists that they are strictly heterosexual is just repressing themselves. "Everyone's a little bit bisexual" as it were. Look out for it.
I meant to add, it's interesting that this idea is an admission that a college student may not have all the final answers, even about him/herself. It does, however, deny the existence of final answers and continues to put the reigns in the individual's hands. No one else's input can be valid or useful.
Adding "Q" to the LGBT coalition approximately quadruples that coalition's numbers, I'd guess, since lots of people are "questioning" in some way at some point; or, in the jargon that Jules quotes, "Everyone's a little bit bisexual."
Perhaps the bast strategy is to take this bull by the horns and say, "Yeah, everyone questions, everyone's a little bit bi -- so that fact that you're that way (this week, anyway) doesn't mean you're not part of the 98% of the population that is, in some meaningful sense of the word, straight."
I thnk the list is very fair and couldn't have been any different. They deserve to be on the list.
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