When? Probably sometime in 2011, I posted that I would incorporate what was relevant, and let my speculative, perhaps non-existent, followers, put the pieces together as they would, and I also wrote, in an equally speculative manner, about my first viewing of Paul Cox's 1991 A Woman's Tale, which ran the other day. I was forced to miss it, but will add here that it belongs firmly in any development of disability and fine arts, and I agree with everything the aging Ebert writes. or nearly everything, but I need to study Cox and Florence again before I diverge. I will also go as far as to quote him:
She is a woman of power and confidence, a woman who insists on her dignity when the world wants her to give up and admit she is sick and go off somewhere convenient to die.
This is who I am in a nutshell, brazen, uncouth, short-tempered, violating all known table manners. Now, do I condone the murder this petition protests? No, not quite, but as a victim of lesbian harassment, I do not think gay panic should be eliminated as a mitigating factor in sentencing those who kill in homophobic rage, because I understand the need to strike back when victimized, and I cannot defend myself against women who abuse their position, either as my client, my personal assistant, or my straight disabled supervisor who systemically humiliated me for somewhat over a year of my life in playing me against her homosexual colleagues and my former friends.
If gay activists find me hateful, well, those of you I've known have trampled my boundaries uncaring of the emotional pain you've caused, and despite my atheism, the religious conservatives are right, for the wrong reasons, not that the actions of Chris Cooper's character in American Beauty were justified, as that was repression that sprung a leak.
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