My Latest Girl Crush

If Yemmynisting is not on your blog reading list, it needs to be there.  In a place (the US) and time where the LGBT community is on the threshold of freedom and equality, Yemisi Ilesanmi is from a place (Nigeria) that the 20th century seems to have left behind.  (In terms of technology.  Sadly, the 19th century left it behind socially).  Ilesanmi struggles against a culture that opposes LGBT rights violently whenever and however it can.  Nigerians against LGBT rights aren't caught up in Western nonsense of spouting bigoted rants and then whining when they're called bigots.  Nigerians against LGBT rights just spout ignorant nonsense as if it's proven scientific fact.  They don't think they're expressing a conservative, religious point of view; they think they're expressing the only way to think brain fart about the subject.

In steps Ilesanmi.  She takes no prisoners and doesn't care if you don't like it.  Ignorant superstition is just shot down with no mercy.  And her opposition hates her for it.  And, Yoda love her, she refuses to apologize.  What polite way is there to remove someone's foot from your throat? What polite way is there to keep people from lynching you? When her opposition insists on "politeness", what they're really insisting on is that no one call them on their bullshit to their faces.  Her opposition neither knows or cares that those who would restrict the freedom and equality of others must make a justification, not the other way around.  If your own religious freedom depends on discriminating against or oppressing others- guess what- you're in a religion that encourages people to be assholes.  It doesn't make you a man or woman of your god to search your thesaurus for new insults for LGBT people.  It just makes you an asshole.

Reading her blog on a regular basis is a reminder (sometimes embarrassing) of how cowardly and lazy I can be.  What's the point of accepting the equality of others if I'm not willing to make some sacrifices, piss off some assholes, or shoot down some ignorant garbage?  Are the opinions of ignorant douchebags who tell me that their insults and discrimination and oppression of others a sign of their god's love really important?  Isn't it time we started treating their opinions bullshit with the complete lack of respect it deserves?