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But when the religious right cites this text, they always omit the vital first line, which sets the context for the piece. In other words, every other version of this found on the net and in the literature of religious right political activists is part of the radical right's great lie about gay people.
"This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor."

In fact, a "shocked, so very very shocked" congressperson read the article in the Congressional Record in 1989. Funny thing, though, the opening disclaimer was deliberately omitted.

According to this drama queen, the evil heteros forget the "Thooper Important" first line of the essay.

Just as the homosexual agenda takes everything Rush, or Beck, or a tv show, or a comedian says out of context, I, too then will decry, and denounce, and be offended at the fact that they said those words at all, whether they meant them or not!

Until I actually see, with my own eyes, an original print version, (which as a straight male, I NEVER will, thank you very much) I choose not to believe that first line ever existed. In reality, even if it did, it would be the least important line in the entire girlymanifesto.