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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…
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
haredi jews are batshit fucking insane
Any belief system that says God wants you to dress like a 18th-century Polish peasant, make women sit at the back of the bus, and drench a reporter in spit for using a tape recorder on Saturday is complete and utter bullshit…they’re worse than fundamentalist Mormons…at least Mormons eat pork and use light switches 7 days a week
(disclaimer…not intended as criticism of non-ultra-Orthodox Jews, nor the state of Israel…believe it or not, I am somewhat of a Judeophile…just not a fan of fundamentalism)
obama compares gay marriage to incest and pedophilia…
defending the defense of marriage act…
i’m already judging him by the promises his administration keeps…what has he done, other than crap on people who overwhelmingly voted for him?
i knew it was a bad sign when rick warren spoke at the inauguration…
gays still can’t serve in the u.s. military
but autistic pedophiles are perfectly acceptable…
in related news, obama’s full of shit…it’s july and “don’t ask, don’t tell” hasn’t been overturned
that’s fucked-up…too fucked-up to illustrate with a photo…
gays in iraq had it far better under saddam than they do now…you can probably find straights who say the same thing, but they’re not having their anuses sealed shut with glue and then being forced to take laxatives…
it says a lot about human nature that torture and sadism are some of our most creative outlets…
i once waited in line behind a just-off-work hooker at a bank in amsterdam
and wow, did she look bitter…and i thought waiting tables was degrading and stressful…banks of amsterdam (other than the one i was in), give prostitutes a chance to invest their legally-earned money…it’s a recession-proof line of work…unlike finance
