Tomorrow is the day!!!!
My mother came home from the hospital yesterday and is doing much better. Thank you all for your concern and prayers.
Well tomorrow is the day of my first book signing and I am naturally spooked. I haven't written down a game plan or anything.
Therefore I apologize for not posting anything new today. But I do want to direct your attention to a few items:
My buddies at Box Turtle Bulletin have instituted a new award, one which I hope that I am never the recipient of:
A lot of groups and individuals put out piles of misrepresented statistics and bogus research. Few can match Paul Cameron’s audacity, but from time to time we run across something that surely must put a smile on Cameron’s lips. One such email blast reached my inbox yesterday, and it was so good I thought it might be time to inaugurate a brand new award.
And so I’m announcing the Cameronesque Award, given for the individual or group who engages in the most egregious manipulation, misuse, or misrepresentation of research or statistics that would make Paul Cameron proud.
The first recipient of the award, The Christian Defense Coalition, truly deserves it.
Also, I rarely talk about the ex-gay movement on this blog. Mainly because there are many other excellent resources about the ex-gay movement, including Ex-gaywatch.com and this excellent book by activist Wayne Besen.
And now here is another good resource to add. The Southern Poverty Law Center has written two articles on the ex-gay movement. One dissects the lies of the movement and the other focuses on Scott Harrison, a man who survived the ex-gay movement.
Lastly, I would remiss if I didn't point out this article by the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. It focuses on something that our media should be talking about but for some reason refuses to: the lives of lgbts of color.
"I am not exactly Sidney Poitier or Morgan Freeman when it comes to verbal delivery."
ReplyDeleteYeah but you have the material to be so. Your whole book is an expose' on the design and implementaion of emotional influence. Propaganda for short.
The one thing I enjoyed about your book was the ease with which it read, despite the concentration of information, I think because of the care you took with the bolding, italicizing, and clear demarcation of quotes. Which for me at least, added to it's readability factor as opposed to complicating it. It also makes future reference that much easier.
But I digress. I say just read it like it's written, no pebbles necessary. Because besides the damnation hell-fire lies emotional-backdrop of the subject matter, with your adept use of emphasis, all the vocal inflection needed is already written on the page.
Also, remember the other day I was talking about predicting what the anti-gay industry will say, in order to keep activism fun for the LGBT community? Well, I'm looking at the Recap page here, and I think your Six Distortion Techniques, and Top Anti-Gay Industry Lies are about as succinct as it gets as far as diagnosis goes.
And an accurate diagnosis includes an accurate "prediction" of symptoms.
Diagnosis = Distortion technique
Symptoms = Specific anti-gay lies
So the appeal would be in the vindication, via prediction. Not sure how well this would work in real life, but online, I can see it working.
So I think that the effective utilization of lists like this are the meme so to speak.
(Ok I totally wasn't planning on writing all that when I started :)
I can also see an abridged pocket version available for sale in bulk, to be given out at---but not limited to---parties, protests and pride parades...
thanks emproph,
ReplyDeletei am very glad that you not only liked what i wrote but was able to utilize the information ;p
and the last thing you mentioned about an abridged version is an idea i hadn't thought of before but it's a good idea. and i may do it. it would be a handy guide to send out to all of the organizations in my state.
Sorry about the wrong window, lol. I meant to put that in the "You like me! You really like me!" post above, as I'm sure you already realize..
ReplyDelete-Just wanted to acknowledge it.
it's cool ;p
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