It’s Pride Month — did you know it was Pride Month? — and to celebrate Pride Month CNN handed over a webpage to writer and editor Melisa Raney to share the story of how she discovered her true sexuality at 36. The reason we say it’s not satire is that it sounds like satire. EWTN’s Brandon McGinley put it just right:
"I decided I was gay and left my husband and two children after watching Kate MacKinnon's post-election SNL performance of 'Hallelujah'" has to be the ne plus ultra of modern American liberalism https://t.co/sg9fgpo2yv
— Brandon McGinley (@brandonmcg) June 10, 2019
Unbearably lame; cartoonishly self-centered; performatively woke, and presented as a portrait of courage–it's perfect
— Brandon McGinley (@brandonmcg) June 10, 2019
He’s not wrong. Raney writes for CNN:
My life would change forever after a simple Google search in November 2016. I had just seen Kate McKinnon perform the song “Hallelujah” on SNL and discovered that she’s a lesbian. That shocked me because she didn’t fit the awful stereotype often depicted in the media.
I quickly declared her my “new girl crush.” But it was more than that.
At that moment, I realized that I wanted a relationship with a woman like her — but I felt terrible for even having this thought, as someone who was faithfully married.
Not to rag on Raney, but anyone who was “moved” to do anything but vomit by “Saturday Night Live’s” post-election dirge sung by McKinnon in costume as loser Hillary Clinton has lost us already.
Sad, but no surprise; she and her husband separated “in an effort to give me some perspective,” although they do share custody of their two kids, so that’s nice.
I thought by your headline it was satire, omfg
— Molly (@atomicmo11y) June 10, 2019
oof. Wife and I don’t have a prenup but I might just write up a little document that says, “If you leave me you’re not allowed to tell the world it was because you’re gay for a parody of sad Hilary Clinton.”
— ????? (@Daniel_bearman) June 10, 2019
This episode? The Hilary Clinton piano hallelujah?
Strange indeed. pic.twitter.com/QrtVWyKYYl— larknap (@larknap) June 11, 2019
You destroyed your family & turned your life upside down over a comedy show skit
(and my use of the word ‘comedy’ is very strained ??)
— Bob Zulka (@bobzulka) June 10, 2019
Mass media sexuality–what generated fictitious images made you horny & so revealed your true inner essence heretofore repressed by actual human relationships?
— Nathan Israel Smolin (@CaptPeabody) June 10, 2019
what confuses me is the total lack of attention to her sexuality up to that point: did she see herself as bisexual? fantasize about women at all? idk it just seems pretty hard to believe that one song seen online unlocked one's true self.
— unrepentant repenter⳩Ⓐ (@ChasePadusniak) June 10, 2019
it's a terrifying view of human personality: this idea, which occurred to me once, for the first time, when i was nearly 40, is the secret key to my psychology and the direction of my future life
— the water seer (@kev_jg) June 10, 2019
"when Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from unquiet dreams, he found himself transformed into a furry"
— the water seer (@kev_jg) June 10, 2019
I felt a real horror reading the end of this piece.
"I was finally figuring out who I was."—it's still shocking how strong these memes can be
— Chris [T.P.] ? (@CMccafe) June 10, 2019
Wait, what happened to “I was born this way”? I’m so confused now.
— Bill Denbrough (@BDenbrough) June 10, 2019
Presenting to the world that one's young children are happy their parents are no longer married is the opposite of courage
— Dorian Speed (@DorianSpeed) June 10, 2019
Congratulations, Melisa. You’ve destroyed 3 people’s lives and your children’s sense of normalcy & security, exactly the opposite of what a mother should do, all because you now like girls. That’s the height of selfishness. Could have sacrificed, but you’re just a home wrecker.
— John Gerard Lewis (@jgerardlewis) June 10, 2019
Had a man done this he’d be scrutinized, no?
— Monica of reality “embryo” Guerra ???????? (@monaloca) June 10, 2019
For another man? Absolutely not.
— Brandon McGinley (@brandonmcg) June 10, 2019
For what it’s worth, this editor knows two married men who had this happen to them, and neither one was feeling a lot of pride.
I’m telling you these people are egotistical to the max. Imagine straight people saying to their spouse “I’m bored of you. Let me try another relationship.” What happened to sacrifice? These people don’t think outside themselves.
— Alondra Jiménez (@alondra_here) June 10, 2019
"You get one life. This is your life and no one else's."
Liberalism in a nutshell
— Jeff (@quantumtemporis) June 10, 2019
"My family was being shattered and I couldn't stop it. I constantly had to remind myself, "You get one life. This is your life and no one else's."
She shatters her own family and pretends it's out of her hands. Forget the kids, I want to live for ME!!!
Horrible.
— Phineas (@PQPicklefeather) June 10, 2019
It’s Pride Month … this is a story of pride, not regret.
Thank god she wasn’t radicalized on YouTube
— Johnlat (@juanderful3) June 10, 2019
Related:
Entire Internet overjoyed that character on PBS Kids’ ‘Arthur’ finally came out as gay https://t.co/UxWaDg9BE1
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 14, 2019
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