Ok you ass pickles

[AAP]

When I made that thread about :

What has 30 years brought us in gay rights?
Well I was lazy and the magazine kept hounding me for some input so I combined some of the various responses into one and gave it to them. This is what I submitted:

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What has 30 years brought us in gay rights?
Basically nothing. Sure we now have the token gay characters on every
TV show, along with great advances in interior decorating and
hairstyles.

However, our current regressing society is hinged on a minority of
bigots from every walk of life that perceive being gay as some sort of
plague, like leprosy. Even the vast majority of the general public
that practices tolerance and acceptance view homosexuality as some
sort of curable disease and not just a state of being. Mainstream
people in society still seem to have less venom for suspected
terrorists than they exhibit towards the
issues of gay marriage or a gay couple trying to adopt.

Not to say all efforts have been in vain as remarkable strides in
civil unions and domestic partner benefits have occurred. For a sense
of where this is taking us, you have only to look at the Civil rights
movement. They parallel each other.

Long story short, it's been 30 years, but it's still going to take a few more.

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They sent me a reply today saying basically that they could not publish my response because of the pessimistic view it portrayed. Then went on to scold me for exhibiting such "negativity" towards my own culture.

Truth of the matter is that I couldn't find anything nice to say. If I was going to get disqualified, I would have rather given my own answer and included freaks in body glitter, dance music that you can only understand right before you fall in a K hole, and viagra as a godsend for helping the impotent meth users spread their HIV around.

You jackasses failed me.

 

[puddlemonkey]

Cliif notes?

 

[puddlemonkey]

You jackasses failed me.

Nevermind, found them!

 

[AAP]

Nevermind, found them!

Mass bannings will occur once I sort through the alters.

 

[puddlemonkey]

Oh! Oh! Pick Me! Pick Me!

 

[alien amp pharm]

This thread is so gay

 

[puddlemonkey]

This thread is so gay

It is now

 

[alien amp pharm]

It is now

...that you posted

 

[puddlemonkey]

...that you posted

I know

 

[SpyWizard]

maybe not insightful, but truthful none the less..

What was the article suppose to portray???

if they already knew what they wanted it to say, have them write it and put your name on it after approval..

who is the editor in this case anyway??

 

[AAP]

maybe not insightful, but truthful none the less..

What was the article suppose to portray???

if they already knew what they wanted it to say, have them write it and put your name on it after approval..

who is the editor in this case anyway??

It wasn't "gay positive" enough.

They wanted some rah-rah cheerleading bullshit. Something like, we can pretend to get married now. Hell they would have settled for references to the Ambigiously Gay Duo.

Truth is such an ice cube up the ass.

 

[bw1]

Oh! Oh! Pick Me! Pick Me!

Slut

 

[Scotsman]

Shit if had been published I wanted footnotes added giving my credit.

Of course they won't print it they want an article about how great and lovey dovey everything is. Bad news doesn't sell subscriptions unless it involves a disaster.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[AAP]

Shit if had been published I wanted footnotes added giving my credit.

Of course they won't print it they want an article about how great and lovey dovey everything is. Bad news doesn't sell subscriptions unless it involves a disaster.

Cheers,
Scotsman

I would have added :

Originally Posted by : Scotsman
Location : Colorado
Sexuality : Hetersexual (but questionable)
Motto : Be Stoned Or Be Owned

 

[Scotsman]

They sent me a reply today saying basically that they could not publish my response because of the pessimistic view it portrayed. Then went on to scold me for exhibiting such "negativity" towards my own culture.

Truth of the matter is that I couldn't find anything nice to say. If I was going to get disqualified, I would have rather given my own answer and included freaks in body glitter, dance music that you can only understand right before you fall in a K hole, and viagra as a godsend for helping the impotent meth users spread their HIV around.

You jackasses failed me.

Another thing how the fuck is it a negative outlook on your culture. It's more of a realistic view of the rest of the fucked up country including my dreaded class (White, straight, middle class, male).

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[AAP]

Another thing how the fuck is it a negative outlook on your culture. It's more of a realistic view of the rest of the fucked up country including my dreaded class (White, straight, middle class, male).

Cheers,
Scotsman

I guess they wanted "more".

What else could you give them? Let's see....


*still thinking 2 days later*

 

[Scotsman]

I would have added :

Originally Posted by : Scotsman
Location : Colorado
Sexuality : Hetersexual (but questionable)
Motto : Be Stoned Or Be Owned

Bwahaghahahahahahahahaha!!!!

No one would get the stoned reference to not being weed.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[b0und]

Mainstream people in society still seem to have less venom for suspected terrorists than they exhibit towards the issues of gay marriage or a gay couple trying to adopt.

I can understand your point of view, although I'd like to think it's not all as gloomy - perhaps a crucial difference between now and 30 years ago is the fact that an issue can now be viewed humorously.

It takes a certain climate in a society that you can view a serious issue in a less than serious light. In an intolerant society, hateful or venomous towards homosexuality you couldn't make fun of the subject either.

In fact I think intolerance/hate greatly co-relate to a general sense of humor, the Nazis would have killed anyone making fun of Hitler and don't even try to joke about Islam in an Islamic state.

AAP, do you really feel mainstream people hate you? That sucks, if you do. But, look around here, we got people here from most walks of life on this board, do you feel hated for being gay here?

Heck, we joke about gay and geighness here all the time, in a non-spiteful way and this can only occur because of an absence of hatred and intolerance.

My POV may be different because I live in Australia, we have a high degree of tolerance here, that's not to say we haven't got our share of problems, but we have far fewer hateful fuckheads here.

And lastly, is this related to your wish to adopt a child? How is that going, by the way?



b0und (sincere, for a change)

 

[AAP]

AAP, do you really feel mainstream people hate you?

Not at all.

The level of tolerance and acceptance of people "different" in color, sexuality and other characteristics increase only as the old guard of bigots still clinging onto their hatred and intolerance die out.

Look at the oldsters in the 60's and 70's who still clung to the nigger mentality and suppression idealology. Their children grew up in a world and time different than they and thus (in most cases) did not possess the level of bigotry their parents had. And their grandchildren even less. This is also evident in the strides of the Women's movement and such.

Bigotry is extinction bound without a doubt. Time has proven that.

I don't think people hate me per se, as much as many are repulsed by the envy they secretly feel. They have to find a reason to dislike me simply to calm the insecurities they have within themselves. If I were straight, these same people would simply find another characteristic about me to set me apart and project upon.

It isn't that I sleep with men that most people find alarming but rather that I refuse to toe the line for their own beliefs and outlook by not conforming to what they think is "normal".