tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239771833657791594.post1553180614830081579..comments2024-01-31T21:09:19.263-05:00Comments on Are There Any More Cookies?: I Reread "The Front Runner" Just in Time for The OlympicsJoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401310219858196387noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239771833657791594.post-36940972685131651292014-02-03T16:02:41.353-05:002014-02-03T16:02:41.353-05:00Also - are you as sad about Philip Seymour Hoffman...Also - are you as sad about Philip Seymour Hoffman as I am?Marchelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201825708442679157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239771833657791594.post-63610535880848424302014-02-02T16:38:33.335-05:002014-02-02T16:38:33.335-05:00Yes, it's awful... but in addition to that, we...Yes, it's awful... but in addition to that, we also haven't figured out that it's okay for everyone to have their own spiritual path, that it's okay to be apolitical, that it's okay to have any color/cut/style hair that you feel like... et cetera.<br /><br />Basically, people just want to control people. However, whomever, whenever... it's a control issue, and if we can lick that, we can do anything.Marchelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201825708442679157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239771833657791594.post-80928781758849997202014-02-01T15:28:55.920-05:002014-02-01T15:28:55.920-05:00well written. Sometimes I think that the answer to...well written. Sometimes I think that the answer to whether society has come along way or not, is simultaneously yes and no. In general, the momentum is in the rigth direction. But like any other time things are getting better, there's some portion of society that has to rail harder in the opposite direction; progress being their alarm bell for action that rouses them from their comfortable low level bigotry.Justin Bowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11918590992060850747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239771833657791594.post-77999896363333883172014-02-01T12:01:32.282-05:002014-02-01T12:01:32.282-05:00It's part of that whole 'being gay is trag...It's part of that whole 'being gay is tragic and terrible' school of thought, where it's ok to be gay for a little while but you can't be happy and you have to eventually be punished for deviating from the social norm."<br /><br />This trope is still very strong in film and lit. It's why I've never been able to sit through "Brokeback Mountain."Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16741866680641157872noreply@blogger.com