American society always needs a group to bully. In essence, this means that just about any subgroup of American society IS a bully. This idea of mine, as warped as some people may find it, arose due to the ever so hot topic of gay marriage. Currently the group-to-bully de rigueur is gays. Really, it's anyone who is not heterosexual. This is the one group right now that goes out to the playground and gets a wedgie every day, or gets its lunch money stolen, or gets stuffed into a locker between classes.
I think it's practically sardonic that there is this big push to teach kids about bullying in schools when the leaders of our country run around doing a big group-bully thing. It would be like a group hug, except group hugs foster love and community and warm-and-fuzzies. So a kid is supposed to listen intently to his lesson at school about how it's wrong to pick on someone because they're different, weaker, smaller, etc., yet go home and check out the news to see that yet another state in our fine Union has shot down the idea of granting one of the weaklings a civil liberty.
Before homophobes run for the Bible to selectively propose verses that defend their ideas on the subject, remember how many other groups have been the 90-pound weakling before: Native Americans, blacks, women, people with physical disabilities, poor folks, more blacks, more women, people with mental disabilities, people who listen to rap, people who listen to metal, fat people, short people, anorexic people, Latinos/as, Asians, more blacks, more poor people, the white man, more women, uber-smart people (cuz they're called nerds), ... You get my drift. I find it tough to think that any single individual who reads this post doesn't belong to some subjugated group in some way because listen, America is a pro at finding ways to pick anyone apart. It doesn't matter your biological sex, your skin color, your income, nothin' - in some way, America will find a way to bully you.
The rich white man, bless his heart, has been bullied, too. He has to shoulder the blame for everyone who is poor, uneducated, can't get ahead, or just does not have what he has. He has had to take all the blame for everything that's wrong with America! Yes, people, America has found a way to bully even THAT GUY! So if THAT GUY is getting bullied by American society, the rest of us are fucked.
As you can see, American society is a professional bully. Somehow, some way, it will find a weakling to pick on. Some groups are better targets than others. Yeah, the rich white guy has gotten bullied some, but he still has some power. It's like making fun of the star quarterback because he's not a star in the classroom. There's still an angle for bullying him to some degree, but he's still the starting quarterback, and he's still gonna get more chicks than you. That aside, America has currently decided that GLBT type folks will be placed squarely in its crosshairs for now. Sure, there are some nice folks who really try to make sure that group isn't bullied. There are the proverbial "nice kids" on the playground who make sure the GLBT group doesn't get picked last for dodgeball, but there are still a whole bunch more to make sure that the GLBT group is the first to get pummelled right in the crotch and face by all the dodge balls at once, ensuring that the kid is not only out of the game, but definitely humiliated.
Having said this, I find it ironic that anyone besides a rich white guy would want to make sure a group of people is denied equality. I mean, really, people. I'm a white guy, but I'm not rich, and I certainly know what it's like to be viewed as less-than. I think everyone reading this does. So though most of my loyal readers are probably already on my side (warped as my thought process may be), you might nudge some folks this way who have it in their minds that marriage is between a man and a woman. I call bullshit: if ketchup is married every day in restaurants, then surely two human beings, no matter what, can get married. And I call double bullshit because for those of you who still think that, shame on you. There is some way that America has found or will find you to be "less than" yourself.
Finally, I close with this: who is hurt by a person marrying someone of the same sex? Unless there is a giant gay pride-style parade of homosexual people coming to your house and conducting their marital bliss in your face, shut up already. All of the hetero people I know who are married don't cause me pain and suffering because I don't immediately think of all of their private business. If one of my married couple friends has an argument, sex, dinner, financial issues, or anything else concerning their marriage, guess what!? I don't know anything about it. Why, I just sat here and wrote my blog, happy as a lark, and I'm sure somewhere, a hetero married couple is doing it. Luckily, though, their private life did not interfere with my life. Whew! Dodged a bullet there. Until that type of life-ruining for others happens on a regular basis, though, I say let the heteros keep getting married. In the meantime, let everyone else who wishes to join them in marital bliss do so, please. It's time American society stops bullying ANYONE who belongs to it. Peace and love, friends.
p.s. Sorry if there are any mistakes - trying to get this up in a jiffy. Will edit later. Thx!
