InsatiableCream said:

ScarletScandal said:

i'm sorry. i'll be more gentle the next time i respond to your flip emoticon critiques of my syntax.


wtf

Anxiety said:

I really dislike gay people using that word. What's wrong with you?

HamsterHuey said:

you know what? i dislike gay people who know how to READ. i like 'em big and dumb. easier to boss around that way.

Anxiety said:

Well, get Darin to wear blue overalls and make him pretend, then.

it ain't too late for more youtubeage, is it?

Anxiety said:

I hope that ain't who i think it is! ! ! ! ! goddammit! ...

would he have done that had he not been encouraged???? come on yall....get it together! ! ! ! ! ! !


It thought..."how cute" and then i got all confused.

Muthafuckaz 'round heh always be tryin' to box a bi-Asian in, so I know what you be sayin' n shit. I swear, sometimes these ho's and skank ass breezies be up on my mothatuckin dick talkin' they jankity ass bullshit. I'm just tryin' to get mine and do my thang, do my thang, and I don't need no pigeons tryin' to pin my ass down and define me or get up on my cheese n shit.

Great thread!

Imago said:

Fo'shizzle!!!!!

And who tha fuck errybody be anywayz?????

abierman said:

word!

country actin crabass pringles!!!. .

Anxiety said:

sweet gay man, you should have locked it right away.

DanceWme said:

dawntreader said:

i have nothing to say to that, other than thanks for calling me a sweet gay man.

labels suck
[Edited 11/29/08 15:02pm]

LMFAO my husband would love me to be bi-sexual - hee hee!

This thread:

Evvy said:

You mean no visible homosexual people in the media? Oh, that's easy. Go to any of the maaaaany places in the world where you'll still be, at best, a social outcast and, at worst, murdered, for being gay. In those locations, you still see zero gay presence in the media. Except maybe footage of their stoning, but even then, probably not, cuz who cares about a dead fag?

You feel like you're seeing queers everywhere? Guess what: we ARE everywhere. Depending on how urban/progressive your area is, we may be anywhere from 1-20% of the population. And we have a right to be there. And we have a right to see ourselves represented in the media, and in government, and in every area of public life.

What's the problem? Why is this threatening? Gay people aren't trying to make you gay. Gay people know that sexual orientation isn't a choice. Queers are just trying to live our lives as full-fledged citizens. If we're occasionally bit loud about it, it's because they daylight feels SO GOOD after centuries in the closet and, well. . . it just makes us feel like singing and dancing and waving rainbows around. M'kay? Cut us a break.

As for being offensive, if you correct your thinking so that it's not offensive, then you won't have a problem. Educate yourself. Study the gay rights movement (seeing "Milk" is a good way to start). Get to know some of your faggy neighbors. Embrace diversity.


Geezus.

tackam said:

I love you!

Evvy said:

I don't think sexuality works that way. People don't "choose" fetishes either.
The urge is just there.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I love you right back.


Anxy is being his usual evenhanded, thoughtful, compassionate self. A beacon of light and awesome in a dark, lame world. I feel like the loud, reactive, pissy queers were being underrepresented.

tackam said:

there are only 15 gay characters on primetime this year most are secondary roles. but if you throw in the Bravo Reality Compeitions that balloons the number. only two gay anchors on cable news, Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper. if you don't want see gay people on the news tell the conservatives to stay out of our lives.

i think you, evvy, live in some twilight zone where the majority of people don't have a have a negative impact on their lives.

when i was at the dorms at USD, one of my neighbors said he's cool with gay people but he wouldn't want a gay couple living next to him because he "wouldn't want to think about what they were doing in their bedroom."

myfavorite said:

ehuffnsd said:

Yeah, I guess that's 15 too many if you feel threatened by the existence of people who are different from you.

Dunno. . . I was born in 1979. A lot has changed in my lifetime, but basically, growing up when I did, in a blue state, with a socially liberal family, and spending my whole adult life in a very gay city, I've been less touched by cultural homophobia than most. I'm bi, and when I first had a female partner, I could feel eyes on us a bit compared to being with a guy, but basically, my world didn't change that much. I've been so privileged.

So this whole, "be as gay as you like as long as I don't have to look at you" business is fairly foreign to me, and I don't find this thinly-veiled homophobia to be much less offensive than the bible-thumpers with the "faggots burn in hell" signs. It's all just unbelievably ignorant. Over WHAT, you know? As Anxy said, to get all worked up over the 'gay lifestyle' seems pretty wacky when you consider how insignificant the difference really is.

/rant

ehuffnsd said:

Anderson is gay?

tackam said:

you know what- my comments were a reaction to the fact that people use "you're gay" to downgrade or ruin other peoples reputations- and on the flip side the fact that sometimes gay people are agressive in wanting to be embraced and that makes it seem like either you have to be gay or you have to embrace it- there is no choice if you want to be accepted.

and that's what most young folk do- walk around wanting to be "blindly" accepted instead of figuring out who they are and loving it-

my opinion is if you don't think homosexuality is the way to go you shouldn't be frowned at either- you shouldn't be considered offensive- everyone has a right to an opinion

yes- I do think that everyone should be respected regardless of their sexual orientation- i'm not personally threatened by you- my life is stable- but I can see how someone could be if they are afraid to state their preference and opinion

now see if I said straight people are everywhere so get over it- you'd be offended

Evvy said:

Uh. . . straight people are everywhere. And I don't think any gay people are complaining that there are straight people in the media. I believe you are entirely missing the point.

Gay people insisting on being "embraced" has nothing to do with an expectation that people BE gay. Just that gay people are allowed to be gay, and have equal rights, and not be threatened or harassed or barred from public life. Basically, to have the same freedoms as you and be left the hell alone. That's all people want. When black folks (and supporters) marched in the 60s, were they asking to be "embraced"? I don't think so. I think they were just asking for equality. Same deal here.

I'm pretty sure that young people aren't going to start changing their sexual orientations to be accepted (by the gay minority? ), because it doesn't WORK that way. If it did, most gay people alive today would have made themselves straight when they were young in order to be accepted. Many tried. They all failed. I think your concern for the youth of America is pretty misplaced.

As far as "if you don't think homosexuality is the way to go you shouldn't be frowned at either- you shouldn't be considered offensive- everyone has a right to an opinion" . . . I guess. What you're saying is, people have the right to be bigoted. And I agree, they do.

But they DON'T have the right to impose that on me and my life. They don't have the right to be violent, or to keep me from full civil equality. Gay people will be happy to put down the picket signs and go about our lives just as soon as straight people will stop trying to beat our asses and make laws against us. Really, we've got groceries to buy and laundry to do. Those rainbow flags and feather boas don't wash themselves!