Let Joe dig his own grave.

“Joe” is a professional EVERYTHING. Knows all, tells all, and you don’t even need to ask him. He’s gonna tell ya anyway.

Thing is, “Joe’s” perspective on everything has just one reference point: Joe. That’s it. Which really doesn’t meet the definition of perspective at all.

Whatever the topic at hand, the Joe character can address it only in terms of himself. What he likes or doesn’t like, believes or doesn’t believe, feels or doesn’t feel. There’s no real dialog with “Joe,” just the blasts of his various rants.

Me, for the most part, I don’t even bother. Best advice I ever received, a long time ago, was this: “We don’t need to get through to everyone. Some, we just need to get around.” And I think that’s largely true, though I’d add: Confront the Joe character when necessary, obstruct him when he’s doing harm. Ignore him when it’s safe to do so. But let’s not imagine we’re getting through to him, or even need to.

Though “Joe” may imagine otherwise, we’re not asking his permission. We don’t have to “run it by Joe” for approval before we form opinions, or act upon them. We don’t have to convince him of anything at all. We’re just making sure he’s not slowing us down.

And I agree it is amazing to see over and over how quick the claws are to come out against this one particular religion when it comes to issues relating to gay identity… for another recent example, check this piece about the Advocate’s recent publication of a homophobic, anti-Muslim hoax, which promotes the false idea that militants might engage in sodomy for the purposes of making it easier to carry a bomb inside their anus (how I wish I was joking when I wrote that ridiculous sentence):

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/benjamin-doherty/sodomy-jihad-venerable-lgbt-magazine-advocate-spreads-vile-islamophobic-hoax

Of course, the tendency towards such a pathological view of one group of people so easily translates into having a pathological view of another group of people… it’s sad to see it unfolding but it’s one more reason why all need to work together for justice against multiple axes of oppression.

in other words, it’s kind of interesting to see that a transexterminationist like Joe is the same kind of person who believes that Israel is so sacrosanct that there’s not even room for dissenting view and response to the Israeli pinkwashing machine. i mean, when you silence all the people you disagree with you never have to hear their message again, so i guess that would make Joe’s life so much easier so he can go back to talking about his monolithic fantasies about “transgenders”. oh, wait, he probably wants us all out of pride, too…