Most people who know me wonder if anything really bothers me. To be fair, there isn't a lot out there that really ruffles my feather...it's a personality flaw of mine. Still, there are a few things that get my blood boiling, like.....
- Why is it that the homosexual community finds it necessary to "claim" every unmarried, female author of the past as a lesbian? Now I am not saying there is no way any of them were, but seriously just because a woman never marries and chooses to live with a close friend, doesn't mean that woman is a lesbian. (Emily Dickinson, I think) I just finished O Pioneers! by Willa Cather for my current class, and it's amazing the number of papers devoted to her sexuality. Apparently, if you write novels in which women have a close relationship with the land (personified as a woman) or other women, you must be a lesbian. GRRRRRRR! Like I said, these women could have very well faced this struggle, but why is it soooooo important that I know this about them?
- I really don't like the song "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry. Yeah, it's catchy, but as someone who experimented in that way, it turns my stomach.
- The way some Christian conservatives alienate "sinners". About a month ago I was listening to local Christian talk radio station in the car; a woman representing Concerned Women for America took Scott Wilder's place as a guest speaker for the day. I usually have no inclination to phone in on these types of shows, but I really wish I had owned a cell phone that day. Her topic was focused on the story last spring about the "man" who was pregnant (really this person is still a woman, but that's not my point). Well, instead of asking with compassion with happened in this person's life that he/she is unable to find joy in the body God gave her, she goes on about how what this person is saying and doing is "from the pit of hell"--her words. While that may be true...not the words to use...definitely not the attitude to have toward the lost. No wonder "sinners" run from us.
