{"id":208,"date":"2008-12-20T22:30:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T22:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2008-12-21T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T10:13:47","slug":"wintering-and-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"wintering and sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More snow. Feels like home. Without the amenities of salt and snow trucks. I was out walking around for a while. Maybe I&#8217;ll go out again later and take some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>I realized today that I am deeply sad about the Warren invitation. And in my exchange with <a href=\"http:\/\/tanque.org\/peptide\/\">Amos<\/a>, I realized how I&#8217;ve tamped down my emotions to cope with the anger and sadness I&#8217;ve felt for a long, long time about what it&#8217;s like live life as a second class citizen. What&#8217;s it&#8217;s like to have spent all of my adulthood being considered <em>less than<\/em>. To always be in constant negotiation with the <em>outside<\/em>. Because legally, I am an outsider in the US and it is ok to discriminate against me and it is ok to publically deride me.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is a strategic and shrewd politician. Including Warren is symbolic just like excluding Jeremiah Wright was symbolic. Warren has called homosexuality a sin. Compared it to incest and pedophilia. For me, this isn&#8217;t just about Warren&#8217;s opposition to gay marriage. It&#8217;s about chipping away at the humanity of all of us who are queer. Because when Warren uses that kind of language it&#8217;s dehumanizing. And if you can make me a little less human, then it&#8217;s a little easier to treat me me a little less than human.<\/p>\n<p>I cried today thinking about it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More snow. Feels like home. Without the amenities of salt and snow trucks. I was out walking around for a while. Maybe I&#8217;ll go out again later and take some pictures. I realized today that I am deeply sad about the Warren invitation. And in my exchange with Amos, I realized how I&#8217;ve tamped down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}