Good.

[lederhosen]

Orcinus: Coulter and Savage-Weiner discover that homophobia can backfire. Savage ("you'd be arrested for sedition within six months of my taking power") was dumped by his talent agency after he launched a vitriolic attack on Melissa Etheridge, and Coulter's column has been dropped by several papers after her recent 'faggot' comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

This bit got me, though:

And a cadre of conservative bloggers, including a number of gay Republicans, has issued an open letter to CPAC organizers, asking that [Coulter] never be invited back to the event, and basically kicking her out of the conservative movement

Let me digress for a moment. A couple of weeks back da_norvegicus was running a D&D game with his classmates; I was up the other end of the house where it's quiet, but I heard one of the players saying "this is gay" a couple of times when he didn't like the way the story was going. So I wandered over and politely told them: "We don't use the word 'gay' as an insult in this house."

I didn't make a big deal out of it. Kids hear stuff like that and they repeat it without thinking about what it means, with no intention to vilify anybody; usually a quiet word is enough for that sort of thing. But at the same time I wasn't willing to let it slide, so I made it clear to them that that sort of thing is not welcome here.

I did not wait for complaints. And if I was a gay Republican, I would take the fact that I even had to ask the CPAC organizers to repudiate Coulter's far more odious remarks - let alone the fact that the audience bloody well APPLAUDED them - as evidence that they were no friends of mine.

Even if they did unknowingly give out an award to a former gay porn star at the same conference.

Comments

[mdsteele47.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that Coulter's antics have finally pressed the core of the Republican party to kick her to the curb. It was long overdue and I take it as a small sign of progress in this country.

As an aside, a number of liberal/progressive groups (led by Daily Kos, were very successful in getting advertisers large and small to pull out of sponsorships on Coulter's website.

As for the "gay" as an insult thing, I've been fighting it quietly in my teacher education program and around the school. I'd challenge anyone to give a close listen for this usage over a couple of days, and you'll be shocked by two things: a) how prevelant it is, and b) how immune our ears have become to hearing it.

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

It's pretty good news to me, though I sometimes wonder if all the attention Coulter gets as a result of saying these things is to her advantage at times, giving her a platform to infect impressionable minds with homophobia... amassing tremendous numbers of neoconservative youth to take over everything. o.O