friendship and politics
Feb. 21st, 2005 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keryxCan you be friends with someone whose politics are fundamentally different from your own? Could you have sex with that person? Feel romantically towards them?
I heard this thing on NPR... I don't know, maybe 2 weeks ago... about people putting aside their politics to date. I don't even remember it anymore, but it made me almost absurdly angry - that your political stances could be considered akin to a hobby, and not even a particularly committed hobby at that. There are very few people I count among my friends with whom I differ politically on more than just priorities, and there is absolutely no way I could date someone like that. Are other people that much more poltically apathetic?
In other news. I just realized I have Brother Justin's coat; I got it at Hot Topic. And Scudder is Lydecker? Lydecker was also the wacky soldier dude in Hair, which I only recently saw in toto. The man's following me around through my teevee, I tell ya.
I heard this thing on NPR... I don't know, maybe 2 weeks ago... about people putting aside their politics to date. I don't even remember it anymore, but it made me almost absurdly angry - that your political stances could be considered akin to a hobby, and not even a particularly committed hobby at that. There are very few people I count among my friends with whom I differ politically on more than just priorities, and there is absolutely no way I could date someone like that. Are other people that much more poltically apathetic?
In other news. I just realized I have Brother Justin's coat; I got it at Hot Topic. And Scudder is Lydecker? Lydecker was also the wacky soldier dude in Hair, which I only recently saw in toto. The man's following me around through my teevee, I tell ya.