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10/22/09
I swoon. #rosieodonnell
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Growing up in the LGBT community (because of my lesbian mother), I always felt like there was this unspoken pressure to always put on the best front for any aspect of relationships, family, and behaviour, as if any conflict within your personal interactions and actions could cast shame on the gay community as a whole. Rarely did anyone say explicitly to my mother, "If you air your drama with your girlfriend to the public, you are doing your peers a disservice", but I could see she felt like she had to keep any 'negative' emotions to herself, lest she be responsible for someone thinking poorly of homosexuals overall.
In a similar vein, I was never comfortable talking about problems at home, because I felt as if there would be immediate judgment--well, no wonder your child is doing poorly in school...look at the home she's being reared in.
It's stupid. I KNOW it's stupid, in part of my brain. It boils down to my own selfishness, really--I don't want to have to defend the LGBT community from pinheads. But the same cultural meme that makes it known that same-sex PDA is unacceptable, even when heterosexual public affection isn't, and a delinquent child is caused by being raised by homosexual men, not because those men are just lousy parents overall, is the same one that makes me wince when I see a story like Rosie and her wife's. I want them to work it out, selfishly, so I don't have to deal with anyone's I told you so's. #rosieodonnell
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But even my (well meaning) friends say things like "Oh, you guys are so cute. You're the perfect couple!". Which is totally sweet, but not accurate, of course. We're just humans. And we love each other, and I hope we're together forever, but what if we aren't?
I do worry about perceptions. Plus, of course my parents think this is "just a phase" so I'm determined to prove them wrong too. Instead of, you know, just living my life. #rosieodonnell
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this sentence makes no sense to me? does it mean their divorce has been finalized? confuddled #rosieodonnell
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WHYY ANGEL??? #rosieodonnell
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And speaking of Trump, I want to see the cancelled check from the bank to the Miss California organization, preferably with "reimbursement for implants" written in the memo. Otherwise, STFU Carrie and co. #rosieodonnell
10/21/09
Is it weird that the fact he cheated on his wife makes me feel cheated on as well?
(Also, Buffy would be so disappointed...) #rosieodonnell
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I used to feel really guilty for praying for really big boobs when I was 11, and then getting them only to renounce my religious upbringing a year later.
God bless the Catholic church. I should've prayed for height (I'm 4'11). #rosieodonnell
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Also I cannot see hidden threads. anyone else? I would raise this issue in groupthink but my comments aren't showing up there. #rosieodonnell
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Okay this is really the title??? I saw this somewhere else and thought it was a joke. What the hell does that mean?? #rosieodonnell
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Ha ha that is really funny. Okay yay now I'm in on the joke! #rosieodonnell
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I feel really bad for those kids though, if it is true about her taking the biological one with her. That has to do serious damage on the psyche of the other three.
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I don't know if that made sense. The whole topic enrages me so it's often difficult to express myself (and my anger) clearly when it comes to same-sex marriage. #rosieodonnell
10/21/09
It's called Star Wars. #rosieodonnell
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