September 12, 2011
3. Newblog2011: 09/12/11 "Snowbirds should fly straight."
Several times since I’ve been in Boston, I’ve seen taxis with signs on their roofs that say “Snowbirds should fly straight.”
I’m not gay. I’ve been getting intermittently accused of being gay for 2 years by various factions of the harassing conglomerate. The first time they accused me of it, I think it was likely a result of the fact that my world view doesn’t rely on social constructs as much as it might if I hadn’t had the life experiences I had had before I started writing things that got a lot of attention.
I wrote about 30 scripted scenes for both men and women when I was sending scripts to the show Friday Night Lights between 2007 and 2009. Writing scripts that accurately portray how men can sometimes feel doesn’t make me gay, any more than having tried to write and perhaps having successfully written one of those scripts for some of the main black characters on the show made me black. If I didn’t write more for those black characters, or for other people of color, it was because I didn’t want to intrude on a cultural experience that I didn’t think I knew much about as to the specifics of what it’s like.
I’m a good writer, and when I’m at my best I have good insight. That doesn’t make me gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t have a problem saying so; has anyone noticed that I have a problem with being Jewish or female or talking about any of the ways in which people who try to stigmatize other people have tried to stigmatize me?
For me to say that writing about the harassment is a chore which I hate because the harassment is an unfortunately unrare combination of dangerous, boring and stupid, and that I write about it because my entire life has been violated and threatened and I need to defend myself is not the same as saying that I think the harassment is anything I deserve or that I feel ashamed because of what the people who are persecuting me have done. (No Code--I've said this same thing a number of times over the past year and a half.)
The harassing conglomerate wants to turn the world into an endless procession of bigotry.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, September 12, 2011 @ 2:46 p.m./addition @ 4:16 p.m.
3. Newblog2011: 09/12/11 "Snowbirds should fly straight."
Several times since I’ve been in Boston, I’ve seen taxis with signs on their roofs that say “Snowbirds should fly straight.”
I’m not gay. I’ve been getting intermittently accused of being gay for 2 years by various factions of the harassing conglomerate. The first time they accused me of it, I think it was likely a result of the fact that my world view doesn’t rely on social constructs as much as it might if I hadn’t had the life experiences I had had before I started writing things that got a lot of attention.
I wrote about 30 scripted scenes for both men and women when I was sending scripts to the show Friday Night Lights between 2007 and 2009. Writing scripts that accurately portray how men can sometimes feel doesn’t make me gay, any more than having tried to write and perhaps having successfully written one of those scripts for some of the main black characters on the show made me black. If I didn’t write more for those black characters, or for other people of color, it was because I didn’t want to intrude on a cultural experience that I didn’t think I knew much about as to the specifics of what it’s like.
I’m a good writer, and when I’m at my best I have good insight. That doesn’t make me gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t have a problem saying so; has anyone noticed that I have a problem with being Jewish or female or talking about any of the ways in which people who try to stigmatize other people have tried to stigmatize me?
For me to say that writing about the harassment is a chore which I hate because the harassment is an unfortunately unrare combination of dangerous, boring and stupid, and that I write about it because my entire life has been violated and threatened and I need to defend myself is not the same as saying that I think the harassment is anything I deserve or that I feel ashamed because of what the people who are persecuting me have done. (No Code--I've said this same thing a number of times over the past year and a half.)
The harassing conglomerate wants to turn the world into an endless procession of bigotry.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, September 12, 2011 @ 2:46 p.m./addition @ 4:16 p.m.