As a feminist who is responsible for a LGBT website, I spend a LOT of time reading and thinking about gender issues. I find them endlessly fascinating, and seek out as wide an array as possible of viewpoints, absorbing and evaluating the spectrum of opinions on the topic, partly because it’s part of my job but mostly because I think it’s interesting.
The point is, I read some pretty shocking stuff, and it’s rare that I’ll find something so sexist that I sit up and notice, but this review of The Ugly Truth in the St. Petersburg Times definitely got my attention. Sometimes, articles are so sexist they become hilarious, and Mr. Steve Persall has treated us to that level of misogyny and then some.
He lets us know how he feels about women straight out of the gate:
The Ugly Truth might be just another chick flick with men getting sucker-punched by proxy until surrendering to what women want is the only way out.
And then, believe it or not, it only gets worse from there. I’m new to the area, so I haven’t read too much from the St. Pete Times. Can anyone tell me, is this business as usual? Or did Persall just wake up on the woman-hating side of his bed that day?
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Follow-up on that Fort Worth gay bar raid: an apology from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission chief.
An argument against hate crime legislation, as is.
No recession for Broadway. Are you still going to shows?
This blog‘s Word of the Gay feature is worth a look.
Gay Icons at the National Portrait Gallery. I’d love to see this – anyone get a chance to check it out?
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And this might be my favorite thing I’ve read this month: Love of Gay Bars Will Tear Us Apart. It’s all the rage these days, talking about the splintering of “The Community,” and websites like Watermark Online are an attempt to bridge that in areas like Central Florida, where LGBTs are so physically spread out. I wonder, though. Will it work? Is it worth bothering?
