Amy Dickinson Rips Homophobe a New One
Posted on | February 21, 2006
In my last "In Brief" post I included a link to a post Pam Spaulding’s over at the House Blend. In it she discusses a letter that appeared in Amy Dickinson’s advice column in the Chicago Tribune. I thought about it a bit while I was playing Star Wars Galaxies and just got madder and madder as time went on so I had to make a full entry about it because I feel it perfectly illustrates the two-faced nature of these supposedly progressive individuals who support gays out one side of their mouths but yet speak out against gay marriage and other such equality issues out the other side.
The letter was from a Denver-area woman who apparently liked her gay neighbors right up until the point she happened to see them hug and kiss each other goodbye in the morning as just about any couple would do. Apparently the incident resulted in so much sand in this woman’s vagina she ran to her pastor for advice on how to handle the shocking incident. His advice was that she write the couple a letter telling these men that while what they do for the neighborhood is appreciated, their behavior as a couple is unacceptable. Translation: "We like you doing all this nice shit for us, but please act like you are ‘just roommates’ when we see you in public."
The sickest part of the letter was not so much that this woman did this, but rather the bitch had the nerve to piss and moan to Amy about how that she cannot even get a "hello" out of these two guys. What did she expect? A warm hug and a batch of homemade cookies from these guys? They went out of their way to be nice to her by shoveling snow. They boosted property values by, as this bitch puts it, "taken the ugliest, most run-down property in the neighborhood and remodeled and transformed it into the pride of the street." And she decides to repay their kindnesses with a letter demanding they not do something any heterosexual couple is approved to do.
When I hear of situations like this, I think back to a statement Margaret Cho made during her "State of Emergency Tour" and again during the "Assassin" tour. She has a special message for people who enjoy gay shows like Will & Grace, but are all for denying marriage rights to same-sex couples which is this: "Fuck you! You can’t take the benefits of our culture and leave behind the burden of inequality. That’s like when white people stole rock and roll from black people in the 50’s. ‘I love that song but please don’t use that drinking fountain.’"
Naturally Amy was not having any of this woman’s bullshit and let her have it. My only complaint is that Amy was not strong enough in calling the woman out on it. But she did hit the nail on the head by stating "In your original petition to these men, you basically stated that while you value them when they are raising the standard on your street and shoveling your driveway, you loathe them for being who they are." I do not think it could have been said any better. I will give Amy some credit for having a vicious side to her. She pointed out to this woman is lucky that these gay men are only responding to her bitchiness by just ignoring her. They could have had "gay pride barbecues" and having all their friends over. Amy says she hopes the guys will still do something like that. I am with her on that one.
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May 8th, 2006 @ 6:10 pm
You are so right, but I don’t think you should think that a half ass response is o.k., since she should have been far more to the point with that vile woman.
Amy has had a history of bringing her own personal biases to her answers and it shows. Why couldn’t she have reminded this freak that she probobly offends the neighbors for a variety of reasons but, to preserve a peacful coexistance no one writes letters or gets ugly and confrontational with her. I am a mother of a toddler and being an at home mom now, I see so many like her.She probobly needs to get a job. Most of the pain in the ass bithces in my neighborhood have too much time on their hands.