Holy crap and a half, Batman!  I actually remembered my old password to this thing...good grief...and after I already started a new lj too...damnit.  Ah well...I guess I can let everyone know that I am going to be posting again to my old diary journal (diary_kitsune) and to my new journal ampris2007.   So...yeah...talk to ya'll there mayhaps.  L8R! :)

Would you then?

Would you see me if I looked as I should?
dressed as I should?
primped, polished, and teased as I should?
dressed to the nines for others enjoyment; frilly, stiff...maybe even in pink...
blended in with the cornecopeia of clones society shows me?
Would you see me then?

Would you hear me if I spoke as I should?
said words you already knew?
gave ideas you had already thought?
traded in free thinking for conformed, canned, by your book views...even if they are not my own
professed to feel just as you do?
Would you hear me then?

Would you like me if I didn't shock you?
didn't stand out with my views?
didn't expand your thinking?
fit into that little checkmarked box in your mind...though I must ignore the rest of me to do it...
didn't make you consider just once you may be wrong?
Would you like me then?

Would you love me if I were as you wanted me?
thought as you wanted me to?
spoke as you wanted me to?
made myself the cookie cutter perfect girl you wanted me to be...even if it kills me inside...
if I shut up myself to be YOUR self?
Would you love me then?

Or...maybe...just maybe...if I were myself...
flawed, rejoicing, ouside your scope...
HAPPY, COMPLETE, and DIFFERENT...
let myself just be ME, let you see the real me...even if you didn't agree with it or understand
not within your imagination and blooming on my own...
Could I still be your daughter then?

~ME

Happy Turkey Day everyone!!! I love you all!!! =^_^=

Today, when I voted for President, I did exactly what 'Dubya' thinks I should do....I said NO to Bush.

Its not scary, Its not hard...just DO IT!


VOTE!!!!!today, PLEASE!!!

I say congratulations and beyond to the woman who wrote this newspaper article. Such bravery to say these things in such a public forum when surrounded by a less than open public.

Chrissy Gephardt's revelation tests societal norms</i>

"What a story. It was what we in the newspaper business call a Cheerio-spitter. Rep. Richard Gephardt's daughter Chrissy has a life-changing moment in a Central West End coffee shop, realizing her marriage to the perfect man is a sham, and she is gay. She runs to the restroom and vomits.

Later she tells her parents, sweating and trembling with fear that her mother and father won't love her any more.

Imagine having to fear that. I can't.

Reading these details in Sunday's Post-Dispatch, I felt embarrassed.

Not for her.

Nor for her father, who understands better than most that running for president requires inviting America's millions behind what used to be closed doors.

I felt embarrassed for a society that makes this simple fact of life a sentence of internal torture. America is better than this.

With all due respect to those who cite the Bible as the ironclad law against homosexuality, this nation was founded in large part by folks fleeing the tyranny of having others' religious beliefs imposed on them. How do people forget this? No place on Earth is more free than here. And nowhere if freedom more critical than in choosing our faith. Here, no one has the right to say: Here's what I believe, and how dare you dispute me?

Believe what you believe, but practice it in your own life.

For the life of me, I cannot see what horrendous harm gay people have done to merit so much hate. And before anyone utters "pedophile priests," let's not forget that the overwhelming majority of sex crimes are wreaked upon victims of the opposite sex. Homophobia strikes me, in some cases, as an extension of woman-hating. They hate gay men because some of them are feminine, like women. They hate gay women because lesbians reject the tenet that a woman needs a man to survive and must spend a life serving a man.

I doubt Chrissy's continued high profile in her father's campaign will hurt her father's run for the presidency. They've obviously concluded it could help, choosing to talk about it and keep her front and center. Those who visciously oppose homosexuality were not exactly the pillars of Gephardt's support. The Gephardt's are presenting their handling of the matter as a stark contrast to that of Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, who once said of their gay daughter, "Mary has never declared such a thing." Democrats are, in fact, dueling for the gay vote, trying to lure fiscally minded, gay Republicans to their side. Taking this risk hints at progress.

Playing cards and drinking margaritas with friends a while back, a woman suddenly stumbled onto the subject of how much she hates gays.

"Why?" I said.

"They are ruining American families," she fumed, her husband at her side, their children asleep in their comfortable suburban home.

"Really?" I said. "Are gays climbing in your windows at night? How could I have missed this?"

I seem to have no control over the fact that Kevin Costner makes my heart race. I've tried to imagine what it would be like if I grew up being told "Girls liking boys is wrong. You have to like girls." Could I make myself do this? Could I rid my very cells of this perverted, family-ruining yearning for males?

Not in a million years.

Not even for J. Lo.

And the next question is, why should I?

A friend of mine had a life-changing moment like Chrissy's. She talked about living with her husband and having two babies, and said "I can't believe I put myself through that." A jolt went right through my heart. I just didn't know what to say.

Unlike Chrissy, that woman and her mother became estranged. Like Chrissy, she's had years of therapy.

I think the people who hate Chrissy and my friend are the ones who could use the therapy."

~Betty Cuniberti
(E-mail bcuniberti@post-dispatch.com)

Leave a comment with your name if you want to know what I really think of you, and I'll reply and tell you. No lies, all honesty.

Post it in your journal after I do yours so I can see the reverse, yes?

~Sune

Finally, I managed to do it. I couldn't manage to come out to my mother in person, so I did it via email. (I would have done it in a handwritten note, but I didn't want any chance of Dad*snarl* getting ahold of it) For about 3 days I didn't even know if she have gotten it...I was all on pins and needles and whatnot. Then, the one night I am on my way to bed at about 3:30 am (i sleep weird when i am stressed) and she makes a point of saying "I love you." Now, normally this is done in that kinda distracted "yeah, luvya, lemme sleep" kinda way..but she said it very clearly. So I stopped and said "I love you, too." (instead of "'night! luvya!") She said "I just want you to be happy, Olivia. I love you." I went over to give her a kiss on the cheek and she said "It would take an idiot to not know what you told me, though." I winked and said "Thats why Dad doesn't know" "...Goodnight, Olivia." And off I skipped to bed. I love my Mommy! =^_^= (okay, so she can't say it *lol* but she still is wonderful)

( And in case you ever wanted to know what an Ollie coming out letter looks likeCollapse )

Your a REAL neko
Your insane, but still INSANELY cute! W00t! Go you!
You like batting at butterflys and laying in
the sunshine, string is your friend and you are
abnormally cute. Some people would like to kill
you, but thats what you have claws for ^-^


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. Zell Miller heaped scathing criticism on his party's presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday in the keynote speech to the Republican convention, a similar role to one he played 12 years ago for the Democrats.

Miller, lauded by Republicans for crossing party lines and lambasted by Democrats as a turncoat, delivered the harshest speech against Kerry in the convention's first three days by picturing him as a faint-hearted liberal who would dissemble U.S. military might and hand victory to America's enemies.

"For more than twenty years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure," the Georgia Democrat said.

"George Bush wants to grab terrorists by the throat and not let them go to get a better grip," he said. "From John Kerry, they get a 'yes-no-maybe' bowl of mush that can only encourage our enemies and confuse our friends."

Accusing the Massachusetts senator of letting the United Nations dictate U.S. foreign policy, he added: "Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending."

"What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?" he said.

Miller's message was a far cry from three years ago when Miller, 72, called Kerry "one of this nation's authentic heroes" who "has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment."

At the 1992 Democratic Convention, held at Madison Square Garden like this year's Republican gathering, Miller gave a keynote address supporting Bill Clinton and berating Bush's father as "a timid man."

"George Bush just doesn't get it, he doesn't see it, he doesn't feel it, and he's done nothing about it," he said in 1992. "That's why we cannot afford four more years."

The conservative Southerner, whose voting record in his one term in the Senate aligned him closely with Republicans, has accused his party of moving sharply to the left.

~~The rest of the story~~