We are not to blame

I hate flying, no I really really do. My general fear of height doesn’t even factor in here. It’s not because I’m afraid of a big metal object full of people and freight suddenly realising it has no business being up thousand of miles in the sky. It’s not even about the really horrible new scanners that will let the secruity people know exactly what is under my clothes. I hate flying because of the room.

As a self professed FAT chick(that’s Fabulous And Thick  Chick incase your curious)and tall person (5’11 and 2/3rds exactly) flying means actual physical pain. to start with i’m shoved into a tiny space with my elbow viaing for the 2.3 inches on armrest shared with the guy next to me, and my knees have been foled up to my chin due having on 5inch infron of me and I ALWAYS get stuck with the guy who reclines soon as the seatbelt light goes out. Things seem to have gotten out of hand about this whole issue with most people pointing their bony fingers at the zaftig flyers, and now even the airlines are joining the pointing.

No one has seemed to stop and think maybe the problem isn’t the fat people, maybe it’s the face that the airlines have JAMMED US IN LIKE BLOODY SARDINES! It seems every year the seats get smaller(for the record I have not changed in boddy mass or size in 8 years when I lost 75 pounds) soon a toddler is going to find themselves cramped on an airplane. If these airlines REALLY cared about their customers they would expand the seats to alow you atleast breath your own  BLOODY air. So I say to you is it us big boned gals faults that the airlines have determined that nicole richie is an average sized human?

NO

* all uses of fat here are used in a size positive and reclaimed sense, yes i am fat and if you don’t like it don’t stay…

This rant has been brought to you by midnight ramblings and winegums!

Being green and devout.

I recently went to a very interesting lunchtime lecture at St Andrew’s on the Terrace called God, Gaia and Us by Lloyd Geering a really interesting New Zealand theologian. The lecture itself was primarily about how taking care of the earth was the most Christian thing you could do. I’m not Christian as many of you may know but I also have no issues with those that are thus why I was at the lecture.

It was really fascinating as  he talked though the history about how as the faiths changed our view and outlook on world changed. I sat back and just listened as Llyod explained about how the ancients polytheism  meant that they saw the earth as part of them. They respected everything part of natures in order not to cause offense to the god that was in charge of that item. They also believed that the gods walked among them, Because of all of these things we were connected to the planet all of it’s cycles and storms. As we slowly moved to monotheism from 200 CE to 1000 CE(which was the begining of a dark ages) our thought processes with from a living earth in which we were connected to, to a inanimate object that was the domain of satan and thus doomed. It was from this period on to the late nineteenth century that we created this idea that the earth didn’t matter, that it wasn’t important and thus no sins could be made against it.

I think what astounded me the most was that Llyod is a 90 year old minister and theologian and was saying Christianity kinda got it all wrong on this level and we need to be more like the Ancient Greeks and Romans. I believe he is on to something there and was very fascinated to hear what he had to say. He wasn’t saying we should all whorship 18 Gods and Goddess, but instead that perhaps God wasn’t to just be whorshipped in a church.

One of the best ways we can do the work of God and obey God is to take care of the earth he built. It is our responsibilty as the so called dominant species to make sure the earth is in good condition and well managed. Making sure to keep the air as clean as possible and that animals are protected when we need them. We cannot sit back and let more and more species become extinct. Just because we are the dominant species does not make us the most important one. There is a possibilty that many “Evangelical Christians” are too self centered to even contemplate. The possibility that if we don’t protect the earth and continue to help it thrive and thus respect the work of God that he very well may feel the need to have us removed for it’s own protection. That seems to be the path that we are headed to that one day the earth may reach a place that it cannot sustain human life and thus we may die off, leaving the world to the “lower species” again.

I’d say I’m sorry…but I’m not

So you may have notice that right there to the right of this post is a little section of quotes. These are quotes I like or find funny. I really like having them there and feel like they let you know even more about my personality, the stuff I find interesting or funny. I am constantly updating them, due to reading new books and current events. Well recently due to Prop h8 passing I decided that there really needed to be some queer quotes added to them and I added some poignant ones, some funny ones and a few that I thought were both. After doing this I went on with my blogging and posting what I posted.

This afternoon I got an email from a woman who claims to be “a long time reader” who was emailing me cause she felt “offended and put off”. I was curious on why this was and began to read her email, well it turns out that she hit upon one of those quotes and she felt that I was preaching homosexuality at her via the quotes. the quote was the following one by Harry Benjamin

“If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual.”

I was kinda left unable to respond for a few minutes and was finally able to respond with the following:

“I’m Queer, that is who I am, the quote that seems to offend you is what I see as an accurate description of the matter at hand. I’m sorry you have been offended by the quote appearing at my blog, but I have never once hidden my identity or the fact that I am queer from my blog. If homosexuality offends you so much please don’t return to my blog because to continue to read it would be hypocrisy because I am a homo and that is just a fact of my life.”

Even now writing this blog post, I have a hard time understanding that I got that email. I mean I get my fair share of nasty emails from people who find my site and are right wing Christians (not generalizing here those are the people who I actually got emails from) and get offended just because I’m queer. This woman tho she had been reading my blog for the past 8 months she said and was fine reading about all the different aspects of my life except when a random quote on my site(which could have just as easily been a Terry Prachett or Douglas Adams quote) spoke about my queerness she too offense to that.

I guess I just don’t understand people who like only portions of you. They like you cause your a knitter and young and funny but WOAH NELLY you gay, they can’t talk to you no more. It’s like finding out your friend who you have been hanging out with wear contact lenses andyou saying “Oh I can’t be friend swith you now that I know you wear contact lenses, I don’t believe the are morally right” It just all in the end comes down to the fact that some people are locked down into their beliefs and that is that. They will never get to know the pure joy of not caring what religion/ethnicity/status/sexuality a person is, instead just getting to know them.

We Need Change.

(an apology to my Non-New Zealand readers, this is focused at New Zealanders)

Now many people may not understand that  young fashionista who desires the newest parada bag or those gorgeous marc jacobs shoes(if they only were in her size) would be a big supporter of the green party.  That is due to an “image” that people have of fashionista’s. That we are young, thin, and self obsessed, okay so maybe you got me on the last one, but in the fashion world I might as well be 90, and um thin I am not.

Well despite or maybe because of my self  obsession I care about the enviroment, and the future of the earth itself. I have dreams and desires that goes beyond handbags, shoes, and frocks( I know I was just as shocked as you to realize it) desires to have children, and furthermore grandchildren to be able to play with them in the rivers and woods. Desires to watch the children of today grow up to be the parents of tomorrow, and not have to worry about running out of water, air, oil, the earth.

It is apparent as this election looms nearer, it has become apparent to me that only one party is clearly thinking not only of our children, our grandchildren or even out great-grandchilden, but of their great-grandchildren. Thinking of the planet as a whole and understand tax breaks and more money will mean nothing if we have no planet to live on. Understanding this is the only planet we have and there is no trade in policy on it like your new Prius. It is agreed that New Zealand needs a change I just hope you can see like I do that the change we need is Green

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