Steaksinthemail has moved!
October 13, 2008
Check out the new blog and send any suggestions to info@steaksinthemail.com. I’m still tweaking and updating as I figure everything out.
Questionnaire for Heterosexuals
October 12, 2008
One of our recent reading assignments for my human sexuality course is part of a questionnaire created by Dr. Martin Rochlin in 1972. He paved the way for gay-affirmative research and psychotherapy, demanding that gay clients be matched up with psychologists holding positive attitudes toward homosexuals. To me and to most straight people who read this, the questions are ridiculous. Think about how gays and lesbians feel.
1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
2. When and how did you first decide you were a heterosexual?
3. Is it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
4. Is it possible your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
5. Isn’t is possible that all you need is a good gay lover?
6. Heterosexuals have histories of failure in gay relationships. Do you think you may have turned to heterosexuality out of fear of rejection?
7. If you’ve never slept with a person of the same sex, how do you know you wouldn’t prefer that?
8. If heterosexuality is normal, why are so many mental patients heterosexual?
9. To whom have you disclosed your heterosexual tendencies? How did they react?
10. Your heterosexuality doesn’t offend me as long as you don’t try to force it on me. Why do you people feel compelled to seduce others into your sexual orientation?
11. If you choose to nurture children, would you want them to be heterosexual, knowing the problems they would face?
12. The great majority of child molesters are heterosexuals. Do you really consider it safe to expose your children to heterosexual teachers?
13. Why do you insist on being so obvious, and making a public spectacle of your heterosexuality? Can’t you just be what you are and keep it quiet?
14. How can you ever hope to become a whole person if you limit yourself to a compulsive, exclusive heterosexual object choice and remain unwilling to explore and develop your normal, natural, healthy, God-given homosexual potential?
15. Heterosexuals are noted for assigning themselves and each other to narrowly restricted, stereotyped sex-roles. Why do you cling to such unhealthy role-playing?
16. Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex?
17. With all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexuals?
18. How could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual, considering the menace of overpopulation?
19. There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed with which you might be ablt to change if you really want to. Have you considered aversion therapy?
20. Do heterosexuals hate and/or distrust others of their own sex? Is that what makes them heterosexual?
Uhh… yeah podcasts
October 10, 2008
I realize I’m pretty behind the curve on this one, but for anyone like me who hasn’t discovered the world of podcasts or is just beginning to navigate the sea of FREE episodes waiting for your download, I recently found a pretty entertaining show.
It’s called Uhh Yeah Dude and is comprised of Jonathan Larroquette and Seth Romatelli, two guys from “HollywUYD” who discuss popular and weird news in a hilarious way. I’m a journalism major, but I hate sorting through all the news sites and papers sometimes so it’s refreshing that these guys make it fun.
Their tagline is “A weekly roundup of America through the eyes of two American Americans.” Check it out in the itunes store under podcasts or visit their site to subscribe. They also have a You Tube channel with videos of their broadcasts.
While you’re in podcast world you have to listen to the most popular comedy channel, The Ricky Gervais Podcast. Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant relentlessly mock Karl Pilkington and his outlandish ideas. If you’re a fan of The Office, (UK or US) or you know….comedy, you will love it.
We have other sports teams, too
October 8, 2008
Football games are fun and the sport is basically a religion in Texas and the U.S. for that matter, but they’re also hot, crowded and expensive. If you’re not into this type of scene but you still want to support Longhorn sports, try a volleyball game.
I know that girls sports aren’t as cool or as popular, but I wonder how many people spend four or more years here without going to one single game besides men’s football or basketball. The volleyball team is playing Baylor tonight in Gregory Gym at 6:30 p.m., they’re ranked No. 3, and admission is free with the Longhorn All-Sports Pass, something you pretty much have to buy anyway to get into football games.
WHAT?
October 7, 2008
This is a serious story on CNN.com. I think they’re trying to say it’s a blog post, but it’s a story. I’ll just paste in the top part here:
(CNN) — Hours before they face each other on stage at the second presidential debate, John McCain and Barack Obama each accused the other of deliberate deception in new attack spots released Tuesday.
Earlier: The word “lie” becomes a trail mainstay
"Who is Barack Obama?" asks the announcer in the new 30-second McCain spot, “Hypo.”
The ad includes footage from a Missouri television station that reported "Obama's presidential campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad"....
In “Subject,” the Obama camp continues to paint McCain as dishonest and out-of-touch, using a quote from an anonymous campaign aide to the Republican nominee that appeared in Monday’s Daily News: "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose."
“He’s out of ideas. Out of touch. And running out of time. But with no plan to lift our economy up, John McCain wants to tear Barack Obama down. With smears that have been proven false,” says the narrator in the 30-second spot.]
WAIT– HOLD THE PRESSES! The candidates are blaming one another and trying to say the other candidate is a liar? Totally new strategies. Unexpected. Thank you, CNN for your services to the country. This is also like the #2 “blog” post on wordpress behind Miley Cyrus’ Sweet 16 Disneyland Guest List. Magical! Please don’t be stupid–media, America. End rant.
