No, it’s ignorance and thinly veiled bigotry if you’re going to allow the actions of a few to dictate your opinions of the whole.
Again, read some of the “Ask the Gay Guy” threads. I think you’ll be surprised.
Esprix
You have a twin?:eek:
An asshole so nice, she forced it out twice.
You’re welcome, I think, although I’m not sure that thanking me for suggesting that you’re faintly pathetic instead of overtly evil is the response I was expecting.
You know, Snake, when I was young and single, I suffered my fair share of harassment from straight guys.
Some conversational gems that spring to mind immediately include:
“If you don’t want to fuck me, you must be frigid.”
“If you don’t want to fuck me, you must be a dyke.”
Men would attempt to feel me up at concerts. I had a drunken buffoon spit beer at me when I ignored his dumbass come-on.
Walking to work in Hollywood, guys would cruise up in cars and ask me to blow them for $50.00.
I had two bosses that thought it was acceptable to try and grope my ass and one that was notorious for exposing himself to the female bartenders.
Do those experiences make it right for me to assume that all straight men are dickwads?
Clinging to irrational homophobia in the face of logic and ignoring solid evidence in order to maintain your precious ignorance only make it clear, Snake, that your beliefs are emotional and irrational and not subject to examination; that you hold them on faith alone and refuse to reconsider them in light of the new context gained by reading these boards. In other words, you are a fundamentalist homophobe. I only hope that you don’t fulfilll your potential as a breeder.
Oh, fine, leave me out of the thread I started. I see how it is…
Snake, if you find it perfectly acceptable to avoid contact with an entire group of people, simply because of the actions of a few individuals, then you sir, are a bigot.
Just because you don’t attempt to actively curtail a groups rights doesn’t make you any less of a bigot either.
bigot
n.
One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
Now, avoiding contact with a group of people because of sexual orientation, due to finding acts they perform in private disgusting, and only seeking contact within ones own group is, by definition, a bigot. The fact that you are more passive in your bigotry does not make it any less bigoted. If you don’t want to be perceived as a bigot, then don’t act as one.
Nor, in cases such as this, does inactivity qualify as harmless.
I’m not a big adherent of the old saw “If you’re not a part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem,” but in areas like homophobia and racism this trope is apt.
When the “evil” in question is the accepted status quo, then NOT being a part of the solution IS being a part of the problem. So even if Snake, and other sin-hating, sinner-loving hypocrites don’t go around actively Phelpsing, their very attitude–and the silent complacency it engenders–are INDEED part of the problem.
What’s the other cliche? “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing,” or something like that. I’ll go one further and say that anyone who does nothing is NOT a good person.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke (1729–1797). Attributed.
gives you a Caramel Machiatto and a chocolate biscotti and leads you back to the podium
You had something more to say, oh exalted one?
pokes microphone
IS THIS THI…ng on? cough
Ahem, sorry about that. I would like to thank the Academy, my Friends, my family, and all of the men whose dicks I sucked to get where I am today. I would also like to thank The Body Shop, as your hemp hand cream helped keep my hands nice and soft, even through all of those handjobs to random straight guys I converted off the streets. I also want to thank my…
Oh wait, this isn’t an award?
If you check this link you will see that no-one is certain of the wxact wording.
http://www.bartleby.com/66/18/9118.html
However, it is most decidely NOT a cliche.
cli·ché also cliche ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kl-sh)
n.
A trite or overused expression or idea: “Even while the phrase was degenerating to cliché in ordinary public use… scholars were giving it increasing attention” (Anthony Brandt).
A person or character whose behavior is predictable or superficial: “There is a young explorer… who turns out not to be quite the cliche expected” (John Crowley).
[French, past participle of clicher, to stereotype (imitative of the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a stereotype plate).]
Synonyms: cliché, bromide, commonplace, platitude, truism
These nouns denote an expression or idea that has lost its originality or force through overuse: a short story weakened by clichés; the old bromide that we are what we eat; uttered the commonplace “welcome aboard” a eulogy full of platitudes; a once-original thought that has become a truism.
It is more of an adage, or maxim, precept or saw.
I do not think it is exactly an aphorism, apophthegm, or axiom.
It does make a lovely motto.
Guess who has Bartlett’s, Roget’s and a dictionary in the favorite links.http://www.bartleby.com/66/18/9118.html
I do believe the monsignor’s got it right for once… [/B.S.]
ahem. Speaking of which, I don’t go to Mass all that often, but I think I won’t go for the forseeable future, until the Church reforms their stance or this isn’t in the news anymore. I certainly don’t feel like being asked to pray for the real meanings behind the buzzwords “Sanctity of Marriage”.