Archive for the ‘calm down, everyone...’ Category
wow, new york has really gotten soft
Apparently, New Yorkers find the above window display too violent…click image for details
glaad exists for no other reason than to give gay yuppies opportunities to drink and complain
Seriously, what do they do, other than host benefits and take umbrage? First it was Perez Hilton, now it’s Brüno…click image for details
To their credit, they’ve done a lot to make blatant homophobia taboo within the mainstream media, but now that that’s been more or less accomplished, they’ve served their purpose in that arena…
If they really gave a shit about how gays and lesbians were depicted, they’d be working to reduce homophobia among religious organizations…in African-American popular culture…in the international media…
But, like the Human Rights Campaign, they take advantage of people (both straight and gay) who do give a shit, and then spend that donation money to host banquets that 95% of the community they claim to be serving can’t afford to attend…and to subsidize the overeducated and underqualified members of said community by paying them to plan these events, or to churn out fatuous press releases…
Meanwhile, the majority of this country (both geographically and numerically) isn’t nearly as tolerant as the media…for example, Austin may be Austin, but it is still Texas…and once you leave the Mopac/183/71/IH-35 bubble, all that famed tolerance suddenly disappears…
One of the things Brüno points out (brilliantly, i might add) is that many Americans remain rabidly homophobic…and that little progress has been made in rural areas and smaller towns/cities…home to 21% of Americans…
21% of 300 million is 63 million…take 10% of that…that’s a lot of people not getting to benefit from mainstream society’s newfound tolerance…
Maybe that hit a little too close to home for GLAAD…
if you name yourself after a character in “valley of the dolls,” you have no right to criticize anyone for perpetuating gay stereotypes
Ted Casablanca needs to get off his high horse…click image for details
if you had to spend your life at crotch level to the world, you’d be angry too
midgets dwarves little people want the fcc to ban the word “midget”…click on the late henry nassif jr. for details
what are we going to call midget porn, then? “little people porn” doesn’t have the same ring…
so, what do horse groomers call themselves nowadays?
we need to come up with another word for (attempted) seduction of the underage…”grooming” is too oblique…and too useful in non-sexual contexts
i have a mental image of this woman brushing some 15-year-old’s hair…not quite what the article meant to convey…
tangent: what’s with the rise of pedophiliaphilia/ephebophiliaphilia in american culture over the past several years? law and order: svu, to catch a predator…it all seems a little perverse to me…awareness of sexual abuse and exploitation is one thing, gawking at it is another…
i really think it’s a case of protesting too much…a generation or so ago it was perfectly legal, if not socially acceptable, to fuck teenagers…people obviously still want to, do you really think all those millions of dvds of “hannah montana” and “high school musical 1/2/3″ were purchased for 11-year-old girls?
i’m going to voice an unpopular opinion…so what if a 21-year-old fucks a 15-year-old? 15-year-olds aren’t children, they’re capable of bearing them, for fuck’s sake…the 15-year-old knew what she was getting into…she probably wanted it just as bad as the 21-year-old…
the average american teenager loses their virginity at 14 or 15…let’s stop pretending people remain prepubescent children with no interest in sex until their 18th birthday
well, yes, that’s how numbers work…
some “scientist” at carnegie mellon claims to have cracked the social security number code…identity theft paranoia ensues…
it’s no secret that the first 5 digits code for place and year of birth…to “crack the code” one merely need attach a four-digit number to the end…
much ado about nothing…
uh, geese are food…
prissy-ass americans…goose is $15/lb…it beats government cheese
