Steel Magnolias

Dear Steel Magnolias,

Where have you been all my life? It's like you concentrated all that is great about sassy, Southern women and distilled it into two hours of fabulousness. Really, it will be canonical movie for me. Along the lines as To Wong Fu and Hedwig.

You are filled with excellent one-liners. My feminine identity is inadvertently based on these strong women of class, style, wit and tenacity. These are all the qualities I look in a feminine-identified person. No wonder so many drag queens use you as a reference...I mean just LOOK at the costuming. Really, Dolly Parton's boobs should have received billing.

My Lutheran identity is drawn to the grace that all the characters have. For it is grace and grace alone that we are allowed to experience the Lord. So as I say my prayers, I will be asking the Almighty to give me the grace that those Steel Magnolias have.

Honestly,
Scott