"Jim Jones is widely known as a man of the highest character."
-Harvey Milk
Posted on 03/01/2010 6:59:42 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Last month, I heard some really bad news. It seems the State of North Carolina is about to lay off 3000 more employees in the midst of a massive budget shortfall. But that wasn’t the only bad news I got last month. I also got this email from a representative of our university’s new LGBTQIA Resource Center:
I just wanted to remind everyone about the showing of Milk tomorrow night. This will be the innaugral [sic] event for UNCW's LGBTQIA Resource Office, and also a fundraiser for Wilmington's Domestic Violence Shelters and Services. The film will be shown at 7:00 p.m in Lumina Theater and admission is free. So please come see this important, and Oscar Award Winning film.
Thanks,
Amy Schlag
Program Advisor
UNCW GLBTQIA Office
If you’re like me, you probably have a few questions for Amy Schlag. I’ve listed some of mine below and answered them whenever possible:
1. Why can’t you spell the word “inaugural?” The answer is that Amy is an English professor at UNCW. By the way, she is a White English professor, not a Black English professor like Maurice Martinez.
2. What is the meaning of all the letters in this veritable alphabet soup of liberal victim-hood? The answer is “gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, inter-sexed, and ally.” For the record, I had to write Amy to ask her the meaning of “A”. I thought it might stand for androgyny or, perhaps, something to do with the buttocks. We already have the feminists reclaiming the c-word in The Vagina Monologues. I don’t want to hear a bunch of LGBTQI people reclaiming the a-word. That’s one monologue I can do without.
3. Why is your new center called “LGBTQIA” in the text of the invitation and “GLBTQIA” in your signature? Is there a power struggle going on between the “Gs” and the “Ls”? Is it likely to become as contentious as the struggle between the “crips” and the “bloods”? I mean, can’t we all just get along?!
I think there are a number of questions to be raised with the new LGBTQIA (or GLBTQIA) Resource Center leadership. But I don’t want any miscommunication of my ideas. So I’m going to call Maurice Martinez, the professor of Black English in the UNCW Watson School of Education for help. Maybe he also teaches Queer English, which can help me get my point across with the new queer center, or queer new center. Who knows, after I learn some Queer English, I might even be able to get a job teaching in the public school system!
But, in the meantime, I plan to write Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo with a few questions. Some examples follow: (page 2 at the link)
I thought maybe the “A” stood for asexual—those who want nothing to do with the hodgepodge of labels whereby one has to advertise to others where and in whom they stick their privates.
Showing “milk” costs about 1000 + dollars in fees. Apparently there’s money enough for the support of Hollyweird’s latest lefty causes
I am sooooo glad I read this today! Thank you for posting.
very funny - thanks for starting my day with a good laugh!
Pinging you to my new, “What the hell is going on in my beloved Tarheal state?” ping-list.
Even she rolled her eyes and said "I know. It's getting ridiculous."
Am I the only one who doesn't understand this?
Why aren’t they showing Brokeback? Or episodes of Will and Grace on a continuous loop? Or reruns of Rosie O’Donnell on a continuous loop?
Just call it the BYDXAWVFUGTESJRKQIPHOLNPMOZMJNKSIRQHTGVFUEZDWCYBXA.
That’s every letter, twice. Shouldn’t NObody feel left out about that one.
Oh, and God help you if you misspell it.
They’re going to make it up on volume.
Well, there ya go ... I AM the only one who didn’t understand.
How long until “Glbtqia” starts showing up on inner-city birth certificates?
I needed this today. LOL!
Sheesh! The English professor can’t spell and can’t even use a spell checking feature.
Showing “milk” costs about 1000 + dollars in fees. Apparently there’s money enough for the support of Hollyweird’s latest lefty causes
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Not a problem, I am sure, as it is most likely paid for by all students through their activity fees, whether they like it or not.
Well, I say
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So there.
Put that in yer pipe and smoke it.
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