We always knew we wanted a space with a lot of character.” “The house we were in previously was lovely, but it was quite contemporary. Photograph: Philip LauterbachĪoife, her husband Steven and their three children (now four) moved in five years ago and have been lovingly decorating the 150-year-old home since. I knew immediately that it was the house for us.”Īoife with her girls, Alice (12) and Liliana (8). There wasn’t even a light outside, but in my mind, I could see our family around the Christmas tree inside. I know it sounds crazy, but it completely stopped me in my tracks. But suddenly, I saw it from behind a gate. “It was a dark, rainy January afternoon,” she says, “Not the kind of day you want to view a house. And unfortunately there’s not much you can do to change that, other than investing time and energy in people who do.When searching for the home using an Eircode failed, Aoife decided to drive down a small laneway to turn the car and head back home. Either you, their friend or whatever, are fun or the game is fun, and if you stop being fun by incidentally making them feel a little guilty about where they spend their money, then they might just choose the thing that doesn’t make them currently uncomfortable.Īnd I’m not saying these people who say trans rights online but who also really, really want to play wizard game and already have are horrible people or anything - they’re just not very good. These types of people just wanna have fun. This is the same thing, really, or pretty close to it. They wanted entertainment, and it didn’t matter if that came from having fun gay friends or a tasty sandwich. They were fair weather allies, and they were there for the party and that’s about it. These allies would march in the colorful parades and go to the bars for drinks, but in the end, you couldn’t actually depend on them to inconvenience themselves. Some people had to find out the hard way that the choice between a chicken sandwich and funding people who did not believe in their dignity as a human being was, in the eyes of certain allies, apparently really hard. Well then there isn’t much else for them to say, is there? At least nothing that’s worth anything. A person can say whatever the hell they want, any feel good flowery thing, and it doesn’t really cost them.īut when they are asked to actually give something up - or put their money where their mouth is and just….can’t do it. I remember a friend of mine being really just absolutely broken up over that, trying to understand some of her friends reasoning and at the time I couldn’t give her an answer. The people who’d march with them in the parade or be supportive of marriage equality, who would then turn right around and give their money to people who were trying to actively harm their friends. Because they like the sandwiches or fries or whatever. What disappointed people, or really demoralized a lot of young queers at the time especially, was the allies who would still go there. Cuz we expect clowns to wear the shoes, right, it’s not shocking. There was even a support Chick-fil-A day, I remember it because I was a server at the time and our restaurant was empty most the day - while the line for Chick-fil-A down the road was like a mile long consistently.īut while that was obviously annoying, that wasn’t what hit people the hardest. So a lot of queer folks were asking for allies to boycott Chick-fil-A to show solidarity.Īnd it turned into a giant fuckin circus for bigots to rally around. It came out that the people who own Chick-fil-A were donating to organizations in other countries that were actively working to get gay people there killed, and were also very monetarily invested in stripping gay people of any legal rights they’d amassed in the US. Some of y'all might be too young to remember it, but it went almost exactly like this shit today, only the target was technically gay people (not like we aren’t all lumped together when push comes to shove, but gay was the political scapegoat in US politics at the time, as trans people were still on the fringes of social awareness).
Honestly, this shit with Hogwarts Legacy is just like what happened with Chick-fil-A like ten or fifteen years ago.
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