Politically Correct

Among my many unredeeming qualities, I love to talk about politics. I am a political communications student and a pretty active citizen all around. Periodically when huge news occurs, I’ll talk/complain about it here.

I didn’t think that my first post was going to be a political one. I feel like it’s sort of kicking readers right in the balls to rush right into that topic. Honestly though, today was such a political smorgasbord that it would be ignorant for me to not talk about it. 

I was getting my eyes checked despite having perfect vision because I’m a hypochondriac, when all of a sudden, an influx of terrible marriage jokes that your uncle Tony might tell began springing up on twitter. I checked the people I followed to see if I accidentally followed said uncle tony (he’s a creep, let’s be honest. that would be a huge mistake), and I wasn’t! Instead my President said something simple and logical as usual: he believes that men should be able to marry men, and that women should be able to marry women.

Now before I tackle my discomfort with his inclusion of the word should, I think I should clarify my stance. I think that gay marriage is a no brainer. It should have happened ages ago and it’s something the country needs to accept in order to progress.  I will not type to my audience and lead you to believe that this wasn’t a political tactic because that would be so silly of me to say. Obama has proven himself to be an honorable and ethical man in the past, but if you’re expecting me to believe that the highest political seat in the land wasn’t doing something politically motivated, I would call bull shit right away.

That being said, I think that the political motivation was good intentioned though.  There was calculation in the declaration for equality. That’s because it’s a lot for the vast majority of Americans to take.  The timing was crucial; he juxtaposed himself to Romney and energized his number one voting base: young people. Although it’s a reelection year, I can’t help but think about this announcement like the birds and the bees conversation that parents have with their kids.  You need to wait for that right moment; you need to see if the kid is ready to take his hands from his ears and listen.

Now I will say that I hate the inclusion of should.  It sort of takes away from the importance of the comment.  I think President Obama needs to put that word away and start showing the LGBTQ community that he acknowledges their rights and will do whatever is plausible to fight for those rights.  Maybe we can sit tight for a couple of years to see if the ignorant bitches are ready to listen…

3 weeks ago

hello bunny rabbits

My name is Caitlin. I’m a young woman in college with a blog so that’s nothing new. This is me trying to function in a “social environment” and posing in a picture. Clearly I’m not so great at either.

Anyways, I have a lot of opinions on various things like music, television, fashion, hummus, cats, greasy bangs, and samurai pizza cats. This is where I’m going to place them.

Forever your’s and forever inferior to Beyonce,

Caitlin

3 weeks ago