Right on, brother. You know, the nicest
compliment I've ever gotten in
high school was "Alex is a
fascist homo!" scrawled in
marker in a
men's room stall. This was the
culmination of a written debate conducted on the wall of said stall over a couple of days (we didn't have
Usenet or
Everything back then... Ale
^H^H^H
f1r3br4nd is an ooo
old geezer). My initial reaction was predictably anger... but then I found myself
bragging about it to all my fellow
activist kiddie pals.
"Guess what I found out today, Mike? I'm a fascist homo!"
"Really? I always had you figured for a
socialist bisexual."
After all, if you've pissed people off enough that they write
homophobic slurs about you on
bathroom walls, you must be doing something right!
This reminds me of something a
feminist thinker whose name I've unfortunately forgotten said to
aspiring women activists: "If they don't call you a
lesbian, you aren't getting enough accomplished."
--f1r3br4nd, the straight but not narrow, hopefully