Don't be a Dumbass

I want to take a minute to talk about stupidity.

I don't discuss politics on this blog, purposely, and I fear I'm toeing the line, but here goes.

So this guy, Scott Eckern, who is a devout Mormon, just was forced to resign from being Executive Director of California Music Theatre/Sacramento Music Circus. He gave $1,000 to support Proposition 8 in California. This was put on public record, and he has been Found Out.

He says he didn't know.

I don't have a lot of money, but if I were to donate $1,000 to a cause, I might find out what it is.

So he is being attacked based on the presumption that that he did know, which he sort of revealed, ish, when he said it was a personal and religious matter. Which it is.

And now there's a witch hunt and I think he has become the focus of a lot of (justified) anger about the Proposition being passed. This deluge of anger might be slightly misplaced, but maybe not.

Regardless, if you work in the industry with lotsa gays, you might want to think about how it's going to look when you support a measure that has been considered harmful to those you employ. It was a bad political move for him, and now he is suffering the consequences.

Equally disturbing to me is the fact that he hits on women incessantly at his theatre, but no one's writing those letters. (I am only able to call this out now because another group took him down.)

I digress.

I'm learning that men are very silly, and I wonder if Scott Eckern didn't even notice the gays. I wonder if he just looked at the ladies ta tas and ignored all the flaming queens belting Dreamgirls in the dressing room.

He is one of those, with a ring on the finger and a twinkle in his eye...straight men, tolerant or not, just don't seem to be that interested in gay sex.

There are like 5 straight men in the theatre (and now there are 4) so this evidence is purely anecdotal.

I would venture to say that Scott Eckern lost his job because he is just another horny man.

Open your eyes. Stop looking at our tits. There's a world around you.

Jesus. Titty-Fucking. Christ.

(and Joseph Smith, too.)

Jazz Hands.