My fried Carly's blog today discusses a quote about how supposedly gay people are just engaging in narcissism, which I find really funny. As if one is the cause of the other or something.

It brings me to an incident yesterday. I was sitting with my friend Tom (who is gay) and we were talking with an older woman we had both just met. She finds out that I have recently gotten married, and she launches into The Speech. The one that goes on and on about how great it is to be married, and really it's the only way, and blah blah blah. The Speech is superficially designed to make You, the Young Married, feel reassured about your decision. What it really does, is make the Not Married, Single People sitting around, who up to 45 seconds ago were also participating in the conversation, feel like absolute shit.

The second part of The Speech is where they now try and get you to have a baby immediately.

About ten minutes before, she did remark that she had a daughter of marrying age. She is actually quite lovely (we saw a photo-of course) and started throwing hints Tom's way. When she remarked that Daughter was probably a little too young, I replied that Tom was probably a little too gay. At that point, she was done with Tom.

We will have achieved equal rights for gays when Nosy Yentas harass gays for not settling down in committed relationships and adopting children. Or maybe harassing them for not settling down in a committed relationship and renovating a farmhouse into a bed and breakfast, right now! The point is to have THEM too be the objects of the Yenta's scrutiny. Out of the frying pan and into the fire with the rest of us!