# The Straight Dope's Blatant Homophobia - I'm calling you out! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422 "2003-12-02T04:05:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/1 "2003-12-02T04:05:39Z")
Yeah, you heard me. I am responding to [the new rule in Great Debates](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=220232) as posted in the sticky in that forum. I am appalled - _appalled!_ - that The Straight Dope Message Boards would endorse such blatant homophobia. As a gay man, and as a somewhat effeminate one at that, I consider it a deity-of-your-choice-given _right_ to be able to flame whenever I choose. If a Barbra Streisand lyric should come to mind as an appropriate response to the OP, I will damn well post it. If I want to start a thread about the pros and cons of stiletto heels while performing a drag show, I don’t see what the problem is. And I don’t understand how anyone could systematically disagree with finding a medically sound way to fix carpal tunnel syndrome from limp wrists. I remain shocked at this frightening turn of events. Won’t someone please think of the children?!?! [sub](Unless, of course, I completely missed the point. I didn’t miss the point, did I?)[/sub] Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/2 "2003-12-02T04:10:12Z")
Watch out **Esprix** , this sounds of a “joke” thread. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/3 "2003-12-02T04:16:27Z")
You’ll flame here in the Pit, where it belongs. Or, in this case, does not belong. I suspect Lynn will be along shortly with a big bucket of cold water. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/4 "2003-12-02T04:16:46Z")
It took me a while to get it. I think I’m the one who got whooshed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/5 "2003-12-02T04:19:26Z")
Maybe you should ask a mod to move this to MPSIMS? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/6 "2003-12-02T04:21:32Z")
If you can’t flame in a debate about homosexuality, then the terrorists have won. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/7 "2003-12-02T04:22:11Z")
So, Esprix, you’re complaining about flaming not being allowed on the **Straight** Dope message board? Sounds like it’s more than the rules that are blatantly homophobic. And yet almost everyone here is labeled a “member”. Freud would love this place. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/8 "2003-12-02T04:34:47Z")
Uh-oh. A joke thread! **Esprix** , you’re dead meat! You know what [happened](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=226525) to the last person who posted a joke thread in the pit? :rolleyes: Best of luck to ya. It’s been nice having you around. ☹ 😉 Knorf ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/9 "2003-12-02T04:52:09Z")
I really think I´m missing something here… or we´ll be missing something… dunno; my head hurts, can I go out and play with the monkeys? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dopes-blatant-homophobia-im-calling-you-out/216422/10 "2003-12-02T04:53:44Z")
Go flame and joke somewhere else. You may write to me in a week’s time, and I’ll consider restoring your privileges. Until then, I’m not opening any email from you. Lynn For the Straight Dope (How many times am I gonna have to suspend people before it sinks in that I MEAN no joke threads in the pit?)