I Couldn’t Have Said it Better Myself…and Tampax
I was reading an article this morning about the ACLU’s new ad campaign. They’ve been getting celebrities to pose for pictures and write their own text about issues affecting our civil liberties. One such celebrity was everybody’s favorite nanny, Fran Drescher (also known as my favorite Spinal Tap character…Bobbi Fleckman).
Anyway, since the celebrities all got to pick their ad’s topic, she chose to make her’s about gay marriage. It’s a very good ad, but what surprised me was one of her comments in the interview for the article (that doesn’t appear in the ad). She said in two sentences something I’ve not been able to say myself (probably because I’m so long-winded).
“I’m getting very concerned that the separation between church and state is beginning to blur. The very thing we go into the Middle East to fight – namely a government that is imposing its religious values on the whole country – is the very thing that seems to be occurring right under our noses.”
…and that really scares me. When we’ve got a president creating faith-based initiatives and religious denominations threatening to deny communion to politicians who’s social beliefs differ from the church’s, I’m realizing that my biggest fear is no longer terrorism…but what’s going on in my own back yard.
On a lighter note, I saw a very dapper young man on the subway platform this morning. He was wearing some very trendy H&M style clothes…quite handsome, and most likely gay. But then I looked down at what he was carrying in his hand…a box of Tampax. Why wouldn’t he have left them in a CVS bag? And what’s he plan on doing with them?
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where on earth have you been for the past two years? that boob downtown has been lying to america about nearly everything- and i found out that the electronic voting machines that we will be using are flawed in the republicans favor (more on this later)! this administration is out of control with their manipulation tactics.
the guy you saw on the train is a *metrosexual* he looks gay but has sex with women. OR could it have been an art project?
Oh – I’ve picked up on this trend (merging of church and state) for quite some time now. But I’ve never been able to so state it as succinctly as Fran.
Metrosexual is a good guess. Maybe he doesn’t like plastic because it doesn’t degrade properly in landfills.
What’s H&M? I’m out of it! Wait, did I ask you that b4? I’m losing my marbles!
I have a few metrosexuals here at my work.. cute and all, and confusing!!!
Hey, I think I am the only commenter here who is wholeheartedly in favor of metrosexuals… though it sucks when I politely refrain from hitting on a guy assuming he’s gay and then they turn out not to be, I can live with that if it means even het men can learn how to do basic hygiene.
I love Fran! However, I am most annoyed by Bette Midler and her recent comments in The Advocate magazine. I don’t like her anymore. It is official.
I had two friends–free-lance zanies–who went to a costume party dressed as tampax. When they got there, they took squeeze bottles of ketchup out of their bag and sprayed each other with them. It was SO gross I was sure they would be asked to leave but, of course, they got first prize for creative costuming.
Good blog
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