Bullshit.
You really are a fucking idiot.
Deploring bad taste doesn’t make you a conservative.
Na, I’m definitely fat. Trust me.
Well, let’s see, there’s this little thread.
Or here, where he outs himself as a Birther.
Charming guy, simply wonderful.
Not to speak for BrightNShiny, but I suspect that he will feel sympathy for Captain Midnight when Captain Midnight stops expecting other people to magically change themselves to suit his preferences, while nonetheless whining that it’s too hard for him to take responsibility for his behavior, even when health is at risk.
I don’t know, seems pretty clear in the text. You must be pretty dumb in order to not have figured that out yourself.
The confusion in this post is somewhat astounding. You try to represent yourself as having lots of gay friends, but your extreme, explicit contempt for gay people is obvious. If that’s how you think of your friends, you clearly have a difficult time with human interaction.
IME there are probably a lot of Dopers who fall into this category, they just don’t post about the first part on the SDMB.
Interesting. It would appear that the OP had to search long and hard (sorry for anyone who was forced to think about gayness there) to find the one non-loathsome thing CM has said, and then pitted him for that.
You’re doing it wrong.
He’s certainly a piece of work. But if you’re saying the fact that he’s fat is the non-loathsome thing he’s said, you’re right that it’s not, but it’s still worth pointing out the difference between his standards for himself and the standards he expects others to meet.
The confusion is all on your part. Shaf was specific that he was not refering to his aquaintances as friends. And I read nothing from Shag to suggest that he has contempt for gay people in general.
So gay people are fine and dandy as far as finding the best parties goes but when it comes to treating them like human beings, they’re far too promiscuous and lascivious to warrant respect?
He was very clear on describing not just having one or two token gay friends but rather that his social life, in large part, consists of hanging out in groups in which everyone else is gay.
Now, I suspect you’re right, though. He probably does spend most of his time around people who don’t consider him a friend, because he probably doesn’t have a very easy time finding friends.
You write remarkably well for someone who, evidently, can’t read at all.
Interesting. YOU attempt to answer a question specifically directed at someone else, yet you don’t answer the question (even to the point that you can, as you are not the person I was asking the personal opinion of). :rolleyes:
So, your uselessness there aside, I appreciate your contribution. Prior to your offering I had zero opinion of you. Now I know you to be a buttinsky and a full-fledged dumbass.
Thank you. Ignorance fought and all that.
But what this excuse of a Pitting did was take someone who may very well deserve Pitting, and then not Pit him over his various examples of asshatness but instead made fun of his being fat and insulted the whole class of fat people in the process. No he did not successful mock double standards or point out some alleged hypocrisy …
Heck, CM was not even using a double standard. He is not claiming that he exercises and eats right and can’t lose weight - he states clearly that he chooses not to, has not bothered to get good information, and has not developed the self control to stand up to his cravings. Again, not really on subject about why the op in that thread eats likes a pig and doesn’t exercise and yet does not get fat … a bit narcissisitic … but really. If CM is a jerk then Pit him for his being a jerk, but Pitting him for being fat because he’s otherwise a jerk? WTF?
Not at all. There is just a mixed message sometimes. Gay people aren’t one monolithic group of course but sometimes the media likes to present them as a direct equivalent of the quiet heterosexual down the street when it doesn’t always work that way. I have seen personally witnessed the things that are straight out of the Religious Right’s worst nightmare. Granted, I mostly hung out with them when I lived in New Orleans which has the cream of the crop on top but I have also seen it in San Francisco and Cape Cod. It gets hard to keep track of which stereotype people are supposed to believe sometimes. Some might say there shouldn’t be any stereotype at all because they are just people which gets my vote but then you wouldn’t be having gay pride parades and pink ribbon campaigns. The Onion article referenced above was spot on as usual.
You were clearly confused about something that’s not that confusing. I attempted to help. I’m sorry you’re not intelligent enough to understand things even after they are explained to you.
It’s never surprising to see a moron stick up for another one. Given that this guy is seemingly quite the bigot, I’m guessing you’re sticking up for one of your own.
He certainly mocked it. Whether it was successful or not depends, I suppose, on whether the reader was able to understand his post. I certainly had no trouble.
Pitting him for expecting other people to change something unalterable about themselves, just to please him, while he refuses to change something he very much could change about himself even to protect his own health?
Look, I’m sorry if you feel sensitive about your weight (as your misplaced comment about the thread being an insult to all fat people suggests) but there’s a perfectly valid, clear juxtaposition here.
I’m getting the idea that weight is a very sensitive topic around here, apparently so much so that the fellow’s anti-gay commentary is much less important to posters here than the fact that someone else pointed out that he’s fat.
Juxtaposing this line with what you posted earlier is, well, fascinating.
It’s too bad that I suspect you aren’t quite capable of appreciating irony but I hope everyone else here gets a chuckle out of it.
Pitting him for not understanding that one’s sexuality is innate is one thing. Pitting him for being fat is another.
All the OP is doing is demonstrating his own insensitivity to fat people. He’s not doing anything to further the cause of gay acceptance; hell, he’s probably setting it back.
Weight is an incredibly sensitive topic here- shit, I’d say more so than homophobia. It’s crazy, but that’s how it is.
I don’t understand where folks are confused- like splankt said, we’ve got CM railing against people for something most reasonable people know is not something they can change-- even evoking the WONT SOMEONE THINK OF MAH CHILDREN defense- while he’s sitting there teaching his kids a lifestyle that is far more directly damaging than a lil’ homoness ever could be.
My mom’s gay. I’m not. Her gayness never really affected me one way or another. What did affect me was the eating habits she taught me, the lack of exercise I had, and the fact that my mother is now aged beyond her years due to poor health and I- as her only child- am going to lose my mother far sooner than I should have to because of her health choices over her lifetime. Just now at 24, I’m working my butt off to be healthy so I don’t someday teach my kids this same cycle. If CM cares so much about the lessons being taught his kids, perhaps he should start at home. Ya know, just speaking as the kid of a big ol’ deviant myself.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a thread where so many people displayed a basic inability to read.