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187. We are used to women kissing their chains but shocked when true minorities do it

Black Americans, GBLT Americans, Hispanic Americans - these are true minority groups in America (even though GBLT people can of the majority in other ways). Women are the majority sex by a hair no matter how you dice the numbers (although I'm not sure about the GBLT numbers, but by race it's true). And we're used to women like Phyllis Schaefley, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman et alia who have left traditional roles behind to make a healthy living telling other women to take off their shoes, get in the kitchen and pop out (more) babies.

So when an out gay women makes it to Miss America, (some of us) expect her to break down even more barriers, be even more radical. Is this fair - to her, the movement for GBLT equal rights? Not really, but that doesn't make it feel any better.

Yet I'm still glad to see the "not supposed to" doing what she damn well feels like. As I said, mixed feelings.