I’m watching Margaret Cho‘s Notorious C.H.O. and she closes with this marvelous rant:
If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.
And it’s going to be really hard for us to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. If you don’t have self-esteem, you will hesitate to do anything in your life. You will hesitate to report a rape. You will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote. You will hesitate to dream.
For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution. And our revolution is long overdue.
Oh, hell yeah.
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Oh, I can’t disagree with much there. My difficulty with Ms. Cho, whom I once found side-splittingly funny, is that she makes no bones about her view that anyone to her right on certain highly debatable issues is a pig, stupid, etc., etc. It was at that point — the late 90s somewhere — that I lost her, or she me. She’s only drifted further since.
And the tragedy of it is that if she tried convincing people on the other side of issues, instead of demonizing and “hating them right back,” she’d have even more influence than she does now.
Fuck yeah! 🙂 ^_^
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