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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Exhausting

Just reading the coverage of the RNC is exhausting. I had a stress headache yesterday and I think a lot of it was looking at the stream of self-congratulating wankers that are the Republican leadership. Talking to my sister tonight and realizing that people are actually managing to believe both that Bush's draft dodging is no big deal but that Kerry is a wimp for going to war and then coming back and facing down the whole goddamn government to their faces to explain his belief that the war was wrong.

I don't know what to think about it. I had a lot of thoughts swimming around my head about men and masculinity and feminism, for obvious reasons, as well.

There's only one thing to conclude--Americans are enamored of the idea of masculine courage, but only if it's an empty pose. Show some real guts, some real intergrity, and regardless of your sex, people run screaming. That's the only way I can make sense out of the fact that people are impressed with these morons.

I should have known better. When I was in high school, I was continually pissed off that a bunch of braindead, female-harassing jocks were considered the height of everything good and wonderful. Everyone seemed to actually believe that teenage boys who were so insecure in their own sexual identity that they had to grope girls like me in the hall just to put us in our place were the height of manly self-assuredness. I thought we would grow up and get over it. Some of us did.

But many, many people think that Bush is a Bigger Man than Kerry. And the reason is quite simple. Bush plays one on TV. He wears a uniform and dazzles with his self-assured stubborness. He would pinch you on the ass and laugh at you when you got mad. All the other boys who are also a little unsure of themselves would take comfort in that. Kerry on the other hand, like many veterans, has left the games behind him. Life isn't simple--you can tell by looking at Kerry that he knows that all people carry evil and bravery inside them at all times, and he knows because he's seen both. He's probably been both.

On TV, someone with a complex view of life can come off as dissembling and unsure of himself, in the same way that the nerdy debaters in high school came off as tedious and undersexed to their immature peers who were more impressed by bombast than intelligence. Growing up was a big delight to me, since I found out that nerds in high school often grow up to be the most impressive and intelligent and assured adults. Discovering that nerds have better sex because of their willingness to think thing through was a particular joy. It was so great that I forgot completely that a number of people never made that jump and still turn to bombastic fools for guidance.

I'm exhausted by the RNC and their empty displays. It truly is a bunch of sound and fury signifying nothing. It reminds me of a time that my boyfriend and I walked into a club and this truly awful band was playing and the lead singer was strutting around like a rooster thinking that he was a fucking great rock star, probably because some groupie sucked his dick once. I turned to my boyfriend and said, "Why doesn't he just whip it out and start jerking himself off? Same effect, but without the wretched music." Well, that's how I feel watching the parade of men on stage in their suits and ties with their big words about courage and various other things they know nothing about.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

You are so, so, so right about this (although I could have done without the jerking-off imagery at the end ;))

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8/31/2004

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Exhausting is right. And depressing. People--my fellow citizens and members of the same species as me--actually like this shit.

8/31/2004

 
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Sadly, when I first wrote it, it was uglier and more graphic. Then I remembered making my boyfriend laugh with that comment, so I decided, hey if it was funny once....

8/31/2004

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, the governator of my state gave a rather interesting speech, but only because he is one of a very few politicians to actually point his index finger during his speech. It has bothered me that both at the DNC and the RNC, politicians make a point to grab their index finger under their thumb, and thus make their points with their thumb instead of their index finger. I know it isn't nice to point, but this is bugging the hell out of me. Anyway, our governator's speech was amusing and chilling at the same time. I found that it helped immensely to finish his sentences about individual freedoms with "unless you are gay, poor, catholic, etc..." He even invoked the "economist girly men" that were trying to portray our economy as less than perfect. Guess we don't need to actually know the "facts" based on recent studies to indidcate otherwise. Just keep up the "fuzzy puppy and furry kitten" everything is going as planned retoric. At lease he did not once mention "God".
I had a difficult time watching the "college educated" twins display the ultimate "family value" of dissing your grandparents via cue cards. As a fun drinking game for the rest of the convention, just take a sip whenever a speaker mentions Dick Cheney in the same sentence as GWB. If you take a sip every time they say GWB, you won't last long. And, it was also cathartic to yell "go intercourse yourself with out protection from STD's" every time they showed Dick Cheney on the screen. Funny how not one speaker in prime time mentioned the platform of overturning Roe V. Wade, or abolishing civil unions via the FMA. Guess that wouldn't play. They made a big to do about "no child left behind", but no mention of the budget cuts to that program after the fact. I am soiled after watching, and must now go and take a shower.

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Blogger Nunzia Rider said...

I spend my mornings listening to the convention drivel so I try not to listen at night (interferes with my sleep). But have you caught Alan Keyes? After calling homosexuality selfish hedonism, Illinois' best hope to beat Obama then said that Mary Cheney (the veep's lesbian daughter) was, indeed, a selfish hedonist.

The official comment from BC04 was that the remark was inappapropriate.

Better still was John McCain's response.

"I think it's clear we lose Illinois."

I'm gonna write more on this one later on my blog.

9/01/2004

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yikes. Clear indeed, Senator McCain.

What can Mary Cheney be thinking? I don't say this to place blame on her, as I can't imagine what it's like being the lesbian daughter of Cheney. But I do wonder about her. Why isn't she curdling with resentment against a dad whose reaction to her being insulted is to say the remark is "inappropriate"? Maybe she is curdling with resentment--but then, why doesn't she go up and down around town denouncing said dad? I can't see how her own self-respect wouldn't compel her to do that.

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"But many, many people think that Bush is a Bigger Man than Kerry."
WRONGO.
Bush is a bigger SOCK than Kerry! Also, thanks to the flight-suit Sock shot, a gay joke.

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