http://valeriekeefe.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] valeriekeefe.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] marjaerwin 2010-07-31 02:28 am (UTC)

I would posit that while many people are straight, not everyone is heteronormative and happy with heteronormativity.

And that many people then, who are cis, are not cissexist.

Also that fewer people than we like to think are cis.

A closeted girl who swallows her pain for 80 years and dies in a nursing home, after a long depression, never telling anybody that she was, in fact, yearning more than anything to be a womon, is a womon's narrative. It just isn't one we hear.

And yeah... I am a conservative whose policy prescriptions look like no other conservative's, it often seems, so I do understand the importance of saying one is, well... doing it wrong... though I'm starting to, like other people who have initially relied on conservatism to reclaim rights, begun to think the crown is not the guarantor she claims to be...

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