on the mandisa thing, which i blogged about earlier–here’s my quick take on why she was voted out when she was.

as i see it, mandisa had two sets of hardcore fans–the ultra-religious ones who got the hints and knew she was religious, and the gay fans who loved her diva-hood.

her gay fans stuck by her when she sang a gospel song the previous week, becuase gay people in general are hyper-sensitive to bigotry and wouldn’t avoid voting for her on that basis alone. and she sang the song well. i voted for her, because i love me some gospel and she kicked butt singing the song.

her gay fans would be hypersensitive to hypocrisy as well, though. so when it came out that she was openly supportive of a known, active homophobe, her gay fans (including me) abandoned her.

and she went home. simple as that.

you could say that she went home because it was country week, and she did an abysmal job at singing the song. which she did.

but she dropped too far, too fast for it to only be a country music thing.

mandisa, darling: it’s a gay thing too.

just ask donna summer. really though, mandisa, you should have asked her before you went down the same career-wrecking road she did.

bottom line? just about everybody will tolerate a different point of view.

and just about everybody gets annoyed with hypocrisy.

is american idol’s mandisa homophobic?

kirk just sent me a link to a story on the advocate’s website that outlines mandisa’s overwhelming devotion to beth moore, an anti-gay “christian” writer whose website links to ex-gay groups.

i’m not linking to ms. moore, because i’m not boosting her google rank. google her if you want.

now maybe mandisa, who i’ve voted for every single week, is not homophobic. maybe she is unaware of ms. moore’s homophobic rants, and disagrees with them.

if so, mandisa needs to clarify her views on the subject, because there’s a lot of smoke, and i don’t know if there’s a fire.

absent a clarification, though, i’m not voting for her anymore, even if she is one of my favorites. i have a feeling that a big chunk of her fan base are gay men, and she’d better get out in front of this quickly.

the oscars were, i thought, a pretty good show last night. well organized, relatively quickly paced, some good funny bits.

oscar-winning dancing hos and pimps. it wasn’t very hard out there for pimps last night, unless you count being bleeped by the abc censors.

something for everyone.
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it’s my guilty pleasure, i admit. i watch every week. 5 hours or so of my life down the drain. but i love it, so get out of here with your judgmental attitude.

besides, i’m guessing you watch too.

so who are my favorites so far?
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i love watching the winter olympics, and especially the ice skating. and especially especially the ice dancing.

but since the scoring scandals in the last winter olympics, the sport has instituted a new scoring system.

and i don’t like it.
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