I lived in a farming community for most of my life - which is what gives me such strong contempt for pressure groups like the countryside alliance, full of the sort of farmers I used to know, rich, greedy and sulking because suddenly they're slightly less subsidised and propped up than they were. It particularly got to me because I've been reading http://www.trabaca.com of late - written by a gay man who's just come out to his parents and is now receiveing 'presents' from them of books about how to be cured of his sexuality. No-one get's disowned by their parents or accused of being a freak for deciding they want to be a farmer.
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Date: September 26th, 2002 01:23 am (UTC)From: