Everyone who knows me is well-aware of the fact that I can dish it out far better than I can take it. So the last thing I'd want is a cat fight with some bitchy drag clown. But what is up with this Mattilda character, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore? I don't know anything about his agenda, and I'm not sure if the New York Blade article he was quoted in, "Meet the Marriage Malcontents," takes things he said out of context or not. But what purpose does it serve for anyone to say something like this?
“Nothing could be more depressing than the spectacle of this gay marriage charade played out on the national landscape and the way in which the gay marriage agenda erases decades of queer struggle to make transformative ways of making and loving,” Mattilda said. “We are now so sanitized.”
"The ways in which gay people were so willing to jump on this marriage bandwagon is somewhat disheartening,” said Mattilda, a San Francisco activist whose book “That’s Revolting!” argues that gays should vehemently resist assimilation into straight society.
First of all, a quick look at this photo clearly indicates that he could think of something "more depressing." Secondly, why would anyone think it's worthwhile to argue against equal rights? No one is saying that all gay people must "assimilate" or act a certain way — let alone marry. But what kind of retard goes out of his way to argue against having the same choices as everyone else?
Mattilda has a link to something he calls "gay shame" on his Web site. Perhaps he needs to rethink what that really means to him.
Full story: Meet the Marriage Malcontents (via the New York Blade)
Related: Being Told We Can't Is Making A Lot of Homos Wanna (the author Louis Bayard weighs in)
2 comments:
What can be said, except that there are extremist sides to every argument? I can see what he's saying...something DOES get lost when any community is "mainstreamed," because being marginalized generates a strong bond and identity among those so affected. But I don't agree with his ultimate conclusion re. marriage rights.
(This analogy is a stretch, but it's like those people who complain about the "Disney-fication" of Times Square. OK, yes, it's lost a lot of its edge and character, but you know, it's ultimately BETTER to have tourists with strollers wandering around than muggers with knives!)
Morning. Someone sent me a link to your blog, so I figured I would
respond.
No he was not taken out of context. And the picture we used for the article he sent himself.
Thanks for reading the article by the way. Sometimes I feel like I'm
writing just for me and my dog (who loves everything I write).
peace
james withers
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