tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444854435256087603.post341261842276920327..comments2023-06-30T03:13:29.181-07:00Comments on CLASS: realradicalwildness.comWU TSANGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12034642967087045234noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444854435256087603.post-18330486753495760122009-11-12T11:47:28.779-08:002009-11-12T11:47:28.779-08:00hi alex thanks for raising this side of the debate...hi alex thanks for raising this side of the debate. hospital visitation rights are very important and tie into other areas where legitimate family structures are necessary for survival in our society. i think the question for me lies in the distribution of resources (legal, activist etc) in disproportion to the distribution of life chances for low income trans people of color - for whom there are more urgent survival issues than marriage. i totally agree that the nightclub is conventionally not radical, and does purport an illusion of radicalness. but i'm interested in ways that it could be radical, which have nothing to do with the style and look of anarchy (boring!) yes! totally there needs to be a marriage here of coolness. because i don't think you can necessarily say that the night and day are.. well like night and day. because i would argue that it's probably equally uncool to be young and hip or to be married and gay. but yea i'm really excited to think and write about that more thanks!WU TSANGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12034642967087045234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444854435256087603.post-13246785896957867452009-11-05T14:19:19.107-08:002009-11-05T14:19:19.107-08:00yes, i saw that on facebook. i think it speaks to...yes, i saw that on facebook. i think it speaks to the failure of the gay marriage proponents to make their case. it also seems like someone who is young and single and lives their life in a night club can easily speak of their own radicality while working folks who are not hip or young, whose lives are affected by laws and hospitals and even property, could have a different point of view about their equality under the law which is equally valid, if not more grounded in the admittedly unexciting world of daytime. the fact that the gay marriage activists have not made a case outside of their white bubble is shameful. but i am a poor of color homo who is educated but not particularly upwardly mobile, and i'm married because i did not want to be barred from seeing my partner in the hospital when it goes that way, and that is the way it goes, at some point, if you stay together long enough. but yeah, it's not cool to get married. i hate it when straight people do it, and most of the gays i know who have were pretty embarassed. but if you really want to know how the world works: gay marriage is the destruction of all marriage. that is what the right wing says and they are right about that: it is the plan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com