Social commentary spot

I spent the last tenmintues discussing homosexuality with my mother, in an abstract way, of course. This discussion was brought on by the 'viewing public's reaction to the Tara/Willow scenes in Buffy. General opinion: it should be on so much later. Of course, fans of the show have been telling BBC that for years.

...Going off topic. Basically, my mother completely contradicted herself. She doesn't think homosexuality should be promoted as 'normal' in case kids make up their minds too early. Apart from hte fact I think this is extrememly unlikely to happen, she went on to say she thinks it's something out of our control and determined biologoically. See the contradiction? If it's purely biologoical, how can presenting the view that being gay is totally acceptable affect whether a kid grows up gay or not? If it can, then surely it's not a biologoical thing. For the record: she's not a homophobe. She's totally accepting of gay people, she just doesn't think homosexuality should be shown as 'acceptable'. Another contradiction, i know. Basically, it's okay to be gay as long as no one influenced the decision which is pretty much true.

It's the generation gap. It's getting slowly more tangible. I feel the same way when she starts making generalisation about 'the muslims' etc. I think my generation just has this fear of being seen as prejudiced. It's good to be accepting. Mum pointed out that if it prevents people discussingcertain issues, then it's not, but I don't think there are any issues. More blackpeople commit car crime than white in a certain area of London? There are more black people living in that area. Most racial generalisations, especially about crime, are due to hte fact that due to milleniae of prejudice most people of that race are much poorer. The only problemt is wehn people use their race as an excuse, e.g. "she called me a bitch because I'm black!", when in fact she called you a bitch because you're a bitch!

I wonder what my mother's reaction to my love of yaoi and slash would be? Even better, what would she say about my crush on Anria? ^_^

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Okay, more experimentation with css has resulted in

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Okay, more experimentation with css has resulted in this. The links are supposed to be silver without any underlining or whatnot. Funny how it hasn't worked when they're just links, but the visited links and 'hover' is working just fine. Anyone who wants to point out the glaringly obvious errors in the stylesheet, go ahead. If it's anything like last time, with the 'budly spalld' link...

I've spent two and a half hours doing this. I didn't know I could focus on one thing that long! Especially when most of the time has been spent trying to make it look like the original. I've finally got the background back to black (that's been the work of almost an hour now), but the text at the bottom is still setting to default, i.e. also black, and the links are being right buggers, especially since they're the only reason I started this in the first place! Still, much accomplished for one day. It looks almost exactly like it did to start with, minus some text and some formating... The scrollbar feels a bit glaring, a bit too gothic. Perhaps in pink and grey? *grimaces* Okay, what I've actually accomplish: interesting hover affect, interesitng visited effect, glaring scrollbar. How long it took me to get that done: about fifteen miutes. How long it took me to get everything else looking as it used to: the rest of what's now become about three hours. Yes, so much accomplishment.

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