Opal's Musings

When the Ignorant Have Computers

The conversation (at least my portion of it) on the official Ronnie James Dio fan page went something like this:

A fool by the name of Sam said:

what the... Lit are punk rock fags... we don't want no fags supporting true metal

I held in check the urge to call him a homophobic douchebag. Instead, I said:

Sam, that is very rude and narrow minded. For one thing, it is insulting as anything to use the bigoted term "fag." Unless you are saying, perhaps, that the members of Lit are cigarettes? Are you saying that homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to like metal? Tell that to Rob Halford! Also, who cares what genre of music they play? This crap about "you can't like this kind of music if you like that kind of music" is inane and childish

The Rocky Hater Picture Show?

This was my response to an article by Alex Blaze of the Bilerco Project about the "Glee" mutilation of Rocky Horror Picture Show.

So many other people have so eloquently expanded on what I wanted to say when I read this. For me it boiled down to a simple "WTF???"
A female Frankie? A skinny Eddie? It just ain't right!
I'm a straight woman, as vanilla as they come, with a few (ok a lot of) extra pounds on my frame, and I am horrified by all the hate that I see in the world, whether it be hatred of big people, hatred of homosexuals, hatred of cross-dressers, or hatred of whatever race.
I love the original Rocky Horror film and am disgusted that the spark was taken out of it. If someone had asked me to do a send-up of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, it would have looked nothing like this travesty! Shame on the producers/writers of Glee for doing this.