Bleach ch 316, Code:Breaker ch 1-3, D.Gray-Man ch 164, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle ch 192

My mangas continue to be Highly Exploitive and use kiddie versions of characters to make my supposedly-jaded heart squee. Akimine Kamijyo seems to continue her tradition of making how much I like her male leads at least somewhat dependent on her female leads.

( Bleach ch 316 )

( Code:Breaker ch 1-3 )

( D.Gray-Man ch 164 )

( Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle ch 192 )

*watches 22 minutes of 3:10 to Yuma*

Russell Crowe, how can you be awesome beyond words in Gladiator, yet put me to sleep in every everything else I've seen you in? 

movie meme

Entertainment Weekly's list of the top movies of the last 25 years.

Go through their list and BOLD the ones you have seen and underline the ones you own on video or DVD.

( list )

Seen: 33 (But don't ask me about a lot of them, I only remember that I've seen them...)
Own: 6

Captain America #36-38, Claymore ch 81, D.Gray-Man ch 165

( Captain America #36-38 )

( Claymore Ch 81 )

( D.Gray-Man ch 165 )

 

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 I have performed my patriotic duty and gone outside to watch the neighborhood set of bright, exploding things.  Possibly, as soon as that started up, the cats,who had begged to go outside earlier, were clawing to get back in and then finding hiding spots.

ANYWAY!

That, combined with  smillaraaq's latest offering at livelongnmarry, reminded me of something I've been meaning to post the last couple days.  (GUYS!  EVEN IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS SUBJECT, GO READ THE LISTING!)

Both in regards to livelongnmarryand the entire subject of homosexual marriage, I've seen comments about how no one would care if they weren't homosexual themselves, even if they were "in the closet," and accusations that if you are straight, you'd only care because you like slash.  (One day someone will have to explain that to me.  No, really.)

To me, it's really not even about homosexuality itself-whether you approve or disapprove of it, whether you're heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual-but about equality.  About the fact that one man (do genderswitching from here on out as wished) can choose not to visit his dying spouse in the hospital, or otherwise neglect her, while another man can't stay in the hospital room of his lover of fifty years as he dies.  About how one woman can sell off her dead spouse's home and history against hte wishes of his family, while another woman has all those things taken from her.  About how one person can choose whether or not their loved one should spend the rest of his or her life of life support when the loved one has expressed their wishes on the subject, and another has no say in the matter.  One couple can cheat on their spouses and have everyone cheer at the wedding if they leave their spouses and children to marry each other, while another couple who came together without betraying anyone else can't get married.  And the only reason for this inequality is the gender of the person you happen to love and choose to spend your life with.

Here's a quote from a post lady_ganeshmade earlier:

Because freedom doesn't matter if it's only freedom for whites, or straights, or people in the 'right' income bracket. Because rights are for everyone, not just people just like me, or like you, for that matter.

The concept of "equal rights for all" is something that almost anyone who grows up in the US has pounded into them almost from birth.  Of course, it started "equal rights for white men."  Then eventually evolved a bit into "equal rights for white men and women,"  and then into "equal rights for men and women of all color."  Of course, it doesn't exactly work out that way in practice at all times, both regarding race and gender, but "regardless of sexual orientation" slipped through the cracks there.  If two people can get married, screw up each others lives, and get divorced, or have a happy marriage for 50 years because they're of opposing genders, why can't two people of the same gender have the same chance?