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just because I didn’t kill myself, doesn’t mean I didn’t feel like I was dying — Read this, about the gay college experience, and maybe you’ll understand a little of the despair. Sigh.
Don’t forget the new caption contest [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]
This is a news website article about a scientific paper — Hahaha. (Snurched from james_nicoll.)
Scientists find rocky planet in the Goldilocks zone of Gliese 581 — In case you missed it. (From numerous sources.)
Trout Lake Cheese Caves — This is cool, and not so far from Portland. Trout Lake is also a locale for a lot of UFO sightings, I believe. And
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) Fires Unnamed Staffer Who Wrote Gay Slur Online — He did the right thing. No excuses. No temporizing. No “red meat to the base”. I don’t often have it in me to compliment Republicans, but kudos to Senator Chambliss.
The Sorting Hat: What Kind of Activist Are You? — An interesting metaphor. Worth the read. (Via jimvanpelt.)
White America has lost its mind — More political snark with a bone-serious message.
?otD: Have you ever said to yourself, “My god, what have I done?”
10/1/2010
Writing time yesterday: 90 minutes (Kalimpura, WRPA)
Body movement: n/a (terrible sleep, stayed in bed)
Hours slept: 5.0 (badly interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 4/10 (post-op pain, fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger
Posted: 5:10 am Fri October 01 2010 |
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Cora
October 1st, 2010 at 5:21 pmVery sad post on the gay college experience in the US. In Germany, there is queerbashing at secondary schools and it’s definitely gotten worse in the past few years (I clamp down on homophobic slurs and queerbashing in my classes, but a lot of teachers turn a blind eye sadly).
But colleges and universities are largely free of queerbashing. When I attended university in the 1990s, there were a lot of GLBT students and no harassment or discrimination. The English department, where I studied, was approx. 30 % GLBT at the time. Homophobic students would have been quickly ostracized. Later, I taught at a rural university with historical ties to the Catholic church. GLBT students were less visible there, but homophobia would have been as unacceptable there as at my own university.
I suspect that the harassment GLBT students face in US colleges is the result of widespread religiously motivated homophobia in US society in general, the “students and their parents as customers” mentality prevalent at US colleges, which means more pandering to prejudices, and the pressure cooker environment of college dorms, which I consider harmful in general (German universities have dorms, but the majority of students live off-campus – dorms are mainly for first-semester students and foreign exchange students).