They selected Alison Bechdel's autobiographical father-daughter graphic novel Fun Home as their #1 Book of the Year.
Bechdel is, of course, as butch as a lesbian can get. (puts on Bill O'Reilly's thinking cap) Why, obvoiusly Time Magazine wants to turn all our fine young girls into butch dikes, at which point they'll stop having babies and the American race will die! Err, of course, "American race" is an oxymoron, as the very name "O'Reilly" should suggest (he's freakin' IRISH, fer cryin' out loud! Not even an Anglo-Saxon!). And as Mary Cheney is proving, being a lesbian doesn't stop you from having babies, it just substitutes a couple of mechanical acts in the process. But hey, what's a few facts between bigots, eh?
I'm not sure which blogger on my blogroll blogged about the book. I thought it was our resident woman artist Idyllopus admiring the artwork, but I just checked out her blog and didn't see it there. Anyhow, whoever mentioned it, when I read their blog article I checked out the first few pages on Amazon.com, then I went out to my local Tractors and Peasants Big Box Bookstore and bought a copy of it (it's under "Biography"). Whether you're straight or gay, it's just plain good, and it's good that some folks outside of the gay ghetto have recognized that. Even if recognizing that good art is good art means they'll be accused of being in the pay of the mighty pastel "Gay Agenda", that rainbow-clad supervillain who goes around zapping fine outstanding preacher men with his Gay Laser of Gayness and, like, wants to destroy America by turning us all gay so we won't reproduce and the cockroachesMexicans will take over the empty ruins! Err, yeah. And pigs fly out of my butt every night too. Whatever.
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
About O'Reilly's AS credentials,
ReplyDeleteI believe Mr Dooley stated the matter most definitively during the Spanish-American War:
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2440.html
And here's my thanks to you for motivating me to finally unearth this gem.
ReplyDeleteOh well, if we all get zapped with the Gay Laser, I guess gay marriage will have to be legalized.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we'll have to worry about reproduction, just yet... or not even for many years. There are plenty of families that are having four and more children. It used to be common place, but then it no longer seemed to be the norm, now, it seems to be the fashion, again. -- Or maybe, it's just the people I know.