Batty
You need to be more concise in your arguments for them to be read by others. So I will address but a few.

[/QUOTE]As for pushy, history is filled with examples where people had to stand up directly to fight for liberty and equality. Isn't fighting directly and openly for liberty and equality also traditionally conservative American values?[/QUOTE]

With the world economy in shambles, and troops pulling out of Iraq. I think the world specifically America is tired of fighting and debating. Politically Obama is moving to the center, and the Republicans nominated McCain who was a moderate.

[/QUOTE]That may work, or it may not. How much respect is the societal status quo due when it is in the wrong? Also, how moral is such an action when it involves not just personal self-sacrifice but knowing sacrificing others?[/QUOTE]

On what authority do you have to say and dictate what is wrong with mainstream society? Most of us like it just fine, and find comments like that extremely arrogant. As for personal sacrifice I'm a closeted CD. I don't presume to tell my family and my community that I'm right and they are wrong. I'd be laughed at if I did that en femme.

[/QUOTE]Leaving drag queens and linebackers behind, asking them to stay quiet and suffer on the behalf of those more passable, that just seems utterly wrong to me.[/QUOTE]

What about the rest of the public's right to not witness disturbing behavior. Weather it be somebody in a crowded movie theater who doesn't shower for a month, or a couple making out in a public park in full view of children. Most of society demonstrates discretion because it is polite. We are part of that society as a whole. Those rules applies to us too.

[/QUOTE]Sure it might be easier... for those who would benefit from it! It'd be harder for those who make the sacrifice though! Personally I don't think that would be a fair request to make of others. That we may have to find the way to get progress without leaving them behind.[/QUOTE]

We make that sacrifice by hiding our femme selves every day. Its a hardship you get used too. Whether it is morally right or not is not the issue. I'm not making the request that people change their behavior. I am offering an alternative method to achieving an greater acceptance by convincing those who find this disturbing and won't buy the civil rights argument. Hence this is a less disruptive means for us to be femme without disruption to our normal lives.