Gay Rights in America and Neil Gaiman

[slumber]

I know... not really nice to post two entries within the span of thirty minutes, so sorry for spamming... But I just realized I've got this entry and I had to post it before I leave:

Gay Rights

LOL. Sorry, that was a too-formal text title. But, this is just a little something I've noticed. USA has always been at war with itself, not always literally, in upholding the tenets of equality and democracy over normal societal bounds.

There was that civil war, essentially to give blacks equal rights with whites. Today color hardly matters anymore, but at that point in time the people in the south were incensed at the idea that war had to occur to settle their dispute. Eventually the blacks were granted equal rights, as the US constitution stated in that all men are equal.

There was that matter on women's rights next. The right to suffrage, again a right denied for women but was supposedly the right of all men being equal beings, was granted to them after numerous protests. Today women can do anything they want, basically, but at the time when the right to suffrage was still being demanded, women as equals of men was an unheard-of concept.

All I'm saying is right now gay rights are being demanded of the US. As history prescribes, the country is split into two. As history prescribes, the tenet that all men are equal is the main battlecry of those in favor of gay rights. As history prescribes, some are shocked and appalled by this kind of change with which things are viewed, but history already prescribes that the way things are viewed will always change, the way they did for blacks, the way they did for women, and maybe the way they will for gays.

The fight for gay rights is just another concept that society will, in time, learn to accept and make normal. If everything goes as it has always gone, then equal rights will be granted to gay people in America, and that will herald societal acceptance, as it has always done.

It all boils down to natural progression, a natural evolution of society.

Neil Gaiman

Big fan here... A person in FAP sent me a link! To Neil Gaiman's page! It's over here... Yeah, I'm in heaven..

In his journal, he points us to a journal entry on Mary Sues, which I found impressive though in bad time, as I have just submitted my paper on Mary Sue. LOL.

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004188.html

One fan commented that he looked like Alan Rickman. Hmm... :)

Comments

[wenelda.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link. I'm thinking I may be buying Stardust sometime soon... :)

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Hey, no problem. Always eager to help out a fan. LOL. :D It's one item on my list, Stardust, but I have to finish the Sandman volumes first. :D

[h311ybean]

I really liked the parallels you drew between gay and black/women's rights. You're right, things have finally reached a head and it's time to deal with that next big change.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Ack. I *love* your avatar! :D

Thanks. I really hope that history does repeat itself this time around. It really is high time people should literally mean everyone when they say all men are created equal.

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[h311ybean]

sff_corgi made it for me. I think she has a link somewhere on her LJ to a collection of feminist LJ icons. Not sure if this is now featured in the collection, but I've got a sample of several others from her that I can send you if you're interested :) There are a couple of other Gabriela ones, and two or three Prinsesa Urduja icons.