I could never have a romantic relationship or be married to someone who differed in opinion from me on quite a few things. For instance I could never be in that kind of relationship with a republican, period.
That was true long before I ever got as politicized as I am now. And that was with a h.s. boyfriend that I broke up with three times because of differences in issues -- such as I wasn't supposed to have a job, though a college education was essential -- and who wanted us to marry -- and now he's a dem -- that's how conservative the dems have become and crazy the rethugs are.
We can be friends, and we are friends since he went searching for me after reading my first novel and though the name was different he suspected it was me. He had to look hard to find me too; I don't make it that easy to find me on the internet in certain circumstances. He ended up joining LJ in order to contact me, even. But I still could never have been married to him.
My core beliefs are core. No way I could be close friends with anti-science, holocaust denier, climate change denier, a bigot or racist.
Your family, well, even that can get really difficult to handle! My sister and I cannot speak together about hardly anything except dogs and the weather, or else it is literally civil war. She thinks Sarah Palin is great and should be POTUS, coz -- "she'd show 'em!"
Ugh, I feel like that question is so loaded with privilege. Some people with marginal identities don't always get to pick whether they can respect and/or trust people whose political stances don't respect those identities. Obviously. But having a politicized identity makes us weird and abnormal, I guess, not part of the default perspective from which writer's block questions are asked. :-P
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Date: 2010-01-07 07:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-07 07:34 pm (UTC)That was true long before I ever got as politicized as I am now. And that was with a h.s. boyfriend that I broke up with three times because of differences in issues -- such as I wasn't supposed to have a job, though a college education was essential -- and who wanted us to marry -- and now he's a dem -- that's how conservative the dems have become and crazy the rethugs are.
We can be friends, and we are friends since he went searching for me after reading my first novel and though the name was different he suspected it was me. He had to look hard to find me too; I don't make it that easy to find me on the internet in certain circumstances. He ended up joining LJ in order to contact me, even. But I still could never have been married to him.
My core beliefs are core. No way I could be close friends with anti-science, holocaust denier, climate change denier, a bigot or racist.
Your family, well, even that can get really difficult to handle! My sister and I cannot speak together about hardly anything except dogs and the weather, or else it is literally civil war. She thinks Sarah Palin is great and should be POTUS, coz -- "she'd show 'em!"
Love, C.
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Date: 2010-01-07 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-07 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-07 08:25 pm (UTC)But your answer pretty much sums up my overall view as well.
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Date: 2010-01-08 12:36 am (UTC)Or, in short: ditto.