This whole parade , pride thing is ludicrous. It’s your sexuality that completely identifies you? Your sexual preference should not be a prideful , it should be your own private affair. The outward display is so off putting to the general public and people are getting sick of it. Are they really gaining acceptance? If you ask me it’s the compete definition of depravity and in full display of a godless sub-society .
Agree and we are tired of it being pushed down our throats. But the bigger danger is the confusion and mental turmoil caused to our children. Sexuality should not be the main determining factor in their life choices when they are school age. I believe this is the agenda behind all this transgender debate. The more children they can influence, the more likely child pornography and Sexual abuse will be tolerated. And that's what they want.
People worry about being judged by others. They are focusing on the wrong audience. The only audience that matters is God. You have to ask yourself if your life choices honor God and if that matters to you. These are private matters. For that matter every ADULTS sex life should be privately held with another consenting ADULT. it seems to me it's all about personal pleasure without taking into account the consequences of emotional impact of intimate relationships.
It is all about division, nothing else, Marxism was originally about the division between the rich and the poor, no longer, everything these days is victim vs oppressor. Can I suggest the latest Jordan Peterson podcast
"Your sexual preference should not be a prideful , it should be your own private affair."
Anecdotally, my wife and I remember a time when we were kids (we're sixty now) and were both shocked to find out eventually that our teachers were married, as we'd never even given it a thought. They were *our teachers*, and they were married? Like, they had a life, and who knows what else?
Terrific observations, and I agree wholeheartedly. We seek far too much public attention for niche populations. Private lives should remain private - it is wonderful that we have legislated against bias and LGBs should certainly feel comfortable living as they wish, but does not merit celebration.
I also find it interesting that there is talk of how most societies have dipped below replacement rate in childbearing, and yet we promote those who cannot procreate. Where is Family Month?
Actually, I fully agree. And I'm happy to do away with all the medical awareness months while we are at it. Honestly, I'd give up Mother's Day if it meant never seeing another corporate rainbow logo or flag...
It should be obvious to everyone that white, heterosexual, Christian men are purposely oppressed, and the only way forward is consciousness raising for confidence among that group. The "I'm not racist, sexist whatever" defense is flaccid. Take a look at Jim Kunstler's great piece this morning. White hetero white men are in decline, Marxist, women with borderline personality disorders are on the ascent. Is it a mystery why we have become a suicidal idiocracy? They way forward is clear.
You're so right! The massive crimes of aggression committed by (mostly white) mostly males for the past 2000 years are as nothing compared to the takeover by insane, commie-loving women, who have made our society untenable. It's all women's fault we're on the brink of WW3, that the (no doubt majority male) WEF/WHO/UN are suffocating us all with their agenda to own the entire effing world and turn humans into emotionless computers. Women are so known to hate emotion - unlike men.
Yes it is, they vote disproportionately for Democrats (they demand to be free to offer their own offspring to Molech whenever they want) who have gotten us the administration that has brought us to this verge of WWIII. None of this was happening under POTUS DJT, nor would it be if the 2020 election hadn’t been stolen.
Mostly white for the last 2,000 years? Are you for real? Have you read what was discovered when whites went to Africa and the Americas? Horrific crimes that had been going on there forever many committed by women. A colleague from Nigeria berated me when I said at least his daughter would be safe from genital mutilation as he lived in the UK now but he said it is our culture and my mother and my wife's mother insist on it for our daughter. Many of these societies are matriarchal and their victims are their own flesh and blood. You need to get out more and you need to read some history. Mary Slessor was a Christian who went alone into parts of what is now Nigeria in the 1800's and she saw horrific things with constant fighting going on between tribes and twins being murdered at birth etc etc etc and some twenty years later when the British government eventually reached that part of the world they asked her if she needed anything and she asked for the usual medicines and she also asked for a machine gun to help stop the killing. Life is more complicated than you are making out. And emotion regarding one's own condition as women constantly exhibit is not the same as emotion concerning the condition of others which is mainly a trait of men.
Sorry, but to the gay people- cry me a river- i have gone from ‘I don’t care’ to the point of wanting to move to the Middle East just so I can get away from this crap.
It certainly has. I'm sure it's existed in all parts of the world to a greater or lesser degree since time immemorial but newsflash: Not quite as many bath houses in Tehran or Kabul as San Francisco.
My wife and I lost a valued friend in 1994. Not until reading RFKs book two years ago, did I retrospectively learn what must have really happened to Tom.
Please realize that it's Big Propaganda that has created this over-emphasis on people being gay and the rest of us being heavily encouraged to resist that. The reality is that there always has been a very small percentage, in virtually any society, of people who fall in love with some one of their own gender, for whatever reason. Same with people who gall in lo e with someone of a different race, religion, different sect of the SAME religion, different nationality, whatEVER.
Then along comes Big Brother and floods social media (along with, for example, libraries -- I hope you know that Google did a soft but thorough takeover of the ALA?) with literally obscene amounts of obscene staged events, and photos therefrom, and instead of using our knowledge and wisdom to see that yet another minority is being used, abused, and often brainwashed to make the majority hate someone, anyone, we try to be first in line to demonize the people who are being trotted out as the latest Threat to Our Preferred Way Of Life. First it's the Brits, [the PEOPLE, not the banksters who control the Crown]; then blacks, then Irish then Jews, Russians, rednecks, libtards, those who follow a different religion, dress code, you name it. Pol Pot actually got his military to slaughter those who wore glasses, as that was somehow proof that they were academics which in turn was somehow proof that they considered themselves a higher class than the majority.
The point is, WHEN are we going to wake up and see how vast the brainwashing manipulation is, and just ignore this bullshit rather than jumping on the Disgusted Bandwagon which IS EXACTLY WHAT THE POWERS THAT BE WANT US TO DO.
Exactly. Well said. There's an X account, Gays Against Groomers, which seeks to distinguish just normal gay people, who want to live their lives, from these mentally ill trans people. The effect, which I don't think is an accident, of all this CRT DEI and Trans/Pride is that women and men become persecuted, and gay kids and tom boys and gay adults all get swept up in the trans category, and then are persecuted and projected on too. So all people who have intimate relationships, or who are capable of that, get trounced by dogmatic people on the right and the left for falling into a category. I'm from San Francisco, and I am all in on consenting adults. Not my business, not my circus, not my monkeys. You want, away from children, to participate in whatever, your choice, (was once) a free country. But we have wannabe power trippers at every level of society, who are both controlling and sadistic. Makes me think of Trujillo, in the Dominican Republic, who massacred people who couldn't pronounce the letter R in the word for parsley.
"...While encouraging European immigration, he ordered Dominican troops to massacre 20,000 black Haitian sugar cane workers in 1937, in response for the Haitian government's support of Dominican exiles seeking to overthrow him. It is said they were identified as immigrants, and then murdered by the truckload, if they could not pronounce the letter r in "perejil" the Spanish word for parsley. This event is the subject of the poem Parsley by Rita Dove, the former Poet Laureate of the United States (and the first African-American to hold that position). Trujillo, who himself was of mixed ancestry, was said to have worn makeup to give himself a whiter appearance, and favored garish uniforms and other militaristic trappings"
Roger Kimber, MD - good point. ‘Gender’ is yet one more word which has been misused. I’m 68, amd until recently, no one ever used ‘gender’ as is done now. We used the words ‘sex, male, female, man, woman, boy, girl’.
I certainly don't disagree that generally speaking, many people fall victim to propaganda of various sorts. Other than that, I don't know if I agree with much you've written here. Comparing the pairing of homosexuals to that of different races, religions, sects, and nationalities seems odd, to me. I won't deny that the propagandists in media often extort, exaggerate and manipulate certain events, but I don't see or hear much about people protesting or parading in support or against those who choose to marry outside their race or religion. Surly you cannot deny that there exists in certain groups in our society, militancy. Homosexuals, for example, sometime talk as though they have a bounty on their heads. Same with certain minorities demanding reparations or "rights" that they already have, but seem to want people to think that they don't or that there is imminent danger of losing those rights.
I have functioning eyes, and functioning ears, and a partially functioning brain. I've observed some people in certain groups who've convinced themselves that they're downtrodden who would probably be doing themselves and all of us a big favor by shutting their mouths and being grateful for what they have.
Unpopular opinion here: persons who identify as gay cling to victim hood because someplace deep down inside they remain unhappy with themselves. This is true regardless of whether they believe they have come to terms with and accepted the fact that they are gay. Seeing themselves as victims allows them to place the source of their unhappiness outside of themselves rather than inside.
They will always feel like victims because their same-sex attraction is not the natural order of things (NOOT for short) for the majority, and it never will be. Ignoring nature, in this instance the physical design of male and female bodies for "mating" purposes, typically doesn't end well. I don't doubt for a second that homosexuality is real, and feels natural for gay men and lesbian women, but they are a minority, and many are perpetual victims because the NOOT can't be bent to include them. My advice: accept that you're different, and get on with life. We're all different in different ways.
As a gay man living in the (supposedly) backwards Midwest, I think this all the time when I listen to my counterparts. They act like it's still 1970 which is absurd.
John Sbrochi - thanks for sharing that. I also live in the ‘backwards) Midwest. I’m straight. The media stories are framed in such a way as to imply that we all wake up every morning looking for ways to harm or ‘marginalize’ gay folks, when, in reality, we’re not at all concerned with whether someone is gay or not. We’re just trying to live our lives, live and let live. And we’re beyond sick and tired of being perceived as evil.
I live in a neighborhood of whites and blacks, and mixed couples, and couples with children,
and couples without . Everyone seems to get along. In fact, I'd say most people are more concerned about you maintaining your property than who you sleep with. Seems like (another) media manufactured story that has no basis in reality.
Still, it just astounds me how many believe what the media tells them rather than seeing what's right in front of their eyes!
And I should add - I don't consider anyone evil, unless they act in an evil way. Most people are pretty much live and let live.
Exactly! Out here ‘in the real world’, most people do truly get along just fine. I’m 68, and folks my age were raised on the ‘live and let live’ philosophy. I spent my youth living in Southern California, which was quite the melting pot; people from many different backgrounds. We didn’t care…our only concern about people was whether they were ‘good’ or ‘bad’ (most people are good, of course). I think a lot of people aren’t living real lives…instead, they’re staring at screens, sucking up propaganda. It’s horrifying, really.
John, the alphabet community is fast approaching the time when society at large is going to be completely fed up with their 'shove it down their throats' mentality.
We're starting to see some push back here in Canada. ie... banning pride flags in some school districts.
Yep. I’ve seen many videos. What ever happened to ‘exposing oneself in public’ being a crime? It’s nothing other than sexual deviance. I lived in Southern California as a kid. Glad I’m not there any more. It used to be such a nice place to live.
You can tell who has power by who you're not allowed to criticize.
For example, LGBT-aimed magazines tell potential advertisers that their market is vastly more affluent than other Americans. It's a good way to pitch ad sales, but it belies any claim of oppression. Here's an example, https://equalpride.com
I was going to remark something similar about the per capital income of gay men — many of whom work in the pharmaceutical industry because life is full of irony
One of my parents neighbours is gay and he told me that he and his partner felt far more accepted back in the 90's before all this pride crap was rammed down everyone's throats.
If you don’t want to be treated differently for being gay, then stop acting like being gay somehow makes you special. Your sexual orientation is neither an achievement or a holiday. You have not accomplished anything simply by being attracted to one sex or another. But for some reason we ALL have to celebrate this depravity for an entire month. Next month I’m going to let everyone know I’m heterosexual. So feel free to praise me for my courage and incredible bravery .
"Next month I’m going to let everyone know I’m heterosexual. So feel free to praise me for my courage and incredible bravery"
Exactly. For that particular reason, I resent the use of the word "gay", which is an acronym for "good as you", if I'm not mistaken. Not only do we have enough confusing neologisms already but they're obviously not as good as me. While they're having a good time between themselves, I have to deal with *women* FFS.
Ironic, since gay really means happy, and the incidence and prevalence of depression and suicidal behavior are about double the usual rate IIRC, and God marked the end of the Flood with a Rainbow as a sign that he wouldn’t destroy the earth again with a flood (and undoubtedly one of the sins for which God sent the Flood was homosexuality), so in a very Biblical sense, homosexuals are living under the protection of God’s rainbow (at least until the Second Coming, as we all are), though they would be loath to admit that.
Almost as if God ordained it (the Bible is full of irony if we would only notice.
Erm, yeah, ok. I was only trying to make a (lame) joke.
I don't know about the Bible, I believe Anatoly Fomenko has a point as for its origins. My own point is adult relationships are unnecessarily complex already. I never cared much for them.
The best way to describe homosexuality I've read so far comes from Anais Nin, who calls them "the cheaters". That's the way I see it, too. Lots of cheating going on, in pretty much every aspect of human affairs. And lies.
Oh, and thank you for the lesson on the etymology of gay, or should I say GAY?, I never knew that & wondered (as I do more & more) where did that come from?
If gender orientation (whatever that means) is what you are born as and not simply a smorgasbord of niche options on a menu from which to choose, then it is no more a condition in which one should take pride than that of being a man or a woman.
Maybe the real answer to feeling "uncomfortable in one's own skin" is getting psych help to understand the roots of such feelings, and "weeding" those roots out of oneself, then becoming the best person one can be!
This whole parade , pride thing is ludicrous. It’s your sexuality that completely identifies you? Your sexual preference should not be a prideful , it should be your own private affair. The outward display is so off putting to the general public and people are getting sick of it. Are they really gaining acceptance? If you ask me it’s the compete definition of depravity and in full display of a godless sub-society .
Agree and we are tired of it being pushed down our throats. But the bigger danger is the confusion and mental turmoil caused to our children. Sexuality should not be the main determining factor in their life choices when they are school age. I believe this is the agenda behind all this transgender debate. The more children they can influence, the more likely child pornography and Sexual abuse will be tolerated. And that's what they want.
People worry about being judged by others. They are focusing on the wrong audience. The only audience that matters is God. You have to ask yourself if your life choices honor God and if that matters to you. These are private matters. For that matter every ADULTS sex life should be privately held with another consenting ADULT. it seems to me it's all about personal pleasure without taking into account the consequences of emotional impact of intimate relationships.
It is all about division, nothing else, Marxism was originally about the division between the rich and the poor, no longer, everything these days is victim vs oppressor. Can I suggest the latest Jordan Peterson podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/id1184022695?i=1000658956902
"Your sexual preference should not be a prideful , it should be your own private affair."
Anecdotally, my wife and I remember a time when we were kids (we're sixty now) and were both shocked to find out eventually that our teachers were married, as we'd never even given it a thought. They were *our teachers*, and they were married? Like, they had a life, and who knows what else?
Different times.
Terrific observations, and I agree wholeheartedly. We seek far too much public attention for niche populations. Private lives should remain private - it is wonderful that we have legislated against bias and LGBs should certainly feel comfortable living as they wish, but does not merit celebration.
I also find it interesting that there is talk of how most societies have dipped below replacement rate in childbearing, and yet we promote those who cannot procreate. Where is Family Month?
NeverDull - I agree. Except, no group needs, or should have, a special ‘month’. It’s ridiculous.
Actually, I fully agree. And I'm happy to do away with all the medical awareness months while we are at it. Honestly, I'd give up Mother's Day if it meant never seeing another corporate rainbow logo or flag...
Exactly -- all that non-procreative promotion is a recipe for demographic suicide.
It should be obvious to everyone that white, heterosexual, Christian men are purposely oppressed, and the only way forward is consciousness raising for confidence among that group. The "I'm not racist, sexist whatever" defense is flaccid. Take a look at Jim Kunstler's great piece this morning. White hetero white men are in decline, Marxist, women with borderline personality disorders are on the ascent. Is it a mystery why we have become a suicidal idiocracy? They way forward is clear.
You're so right! The massive crimes of aggression committed by (mostly white) mostly males for the past 2000 years are as nothing compared to the takeover by insane, commie-loving women, who have made our society untenable. It's all women's fault we're on the brink of WW3, that the (no doubt majority male) WEF/WHO/UN are suffocating us all with their agenda to own the entire effing world and turn humans into emotionless computers. Women are so known to hate emotion - unlike men.
Yes it is, they vote disproportionately for Democrats (they demand to be free to offer their own offspring to Molech whenever they want) who have gotten us the administration that has brought us to this verge of WWIII. None of this was happening under POTUS DJT, nor would it be if the 2020 election hadn’t been stolen.
Like! - sorry, my lie button does not seem to want to work.
"like" button. I hope that wasn't Freudian!
Sorry, best Freudian slip ever :-p
liKe! LOL
Peace!
Mostly white for the last 2,000 years? Are you for real? Have you read what was discovered when whites went to Africa and the Americas? Horrific crimes that had been going on there forever many committed by women. A colleague from Nigeria berated me when I said at least his daughter would be safe from genital mutilation as he lived in the UK now but he said it is our culture and my mother and my wife's mother insist on it for our daughter. Many of these societies are matriarchal and their victims are their own flesh and blood. You need to get out more and you need to read some history. Mary Slessor was a Christian who went alone into parts of what is now Nigeria in the 1800's and she saw horrific things with constant fighting going on between tribes and twins being murdered at birth etc etc etc and some twenty years later when the British government eventually reached that part of the world they asked her if she needed anything and she asked for the usual medicines and she also asked for a machine gun to help stop the killing. Life is more complicated than you are making out. And emotion regarding one's own condition as women constantly exhibit is not the same as emotion concerning the condition of others which is mainly a trait of men.
Sorry, but to the gay people- cry me a river- i have gone from ‘I don’t care’ to the point of wanting to move to the Middle East just so I can get away from this crap.
Homosexuality exists in the middle east and has for centuries.
I have no doubt it exists there, but best guess is June is just June.
Do they flaunt it on the way down when thrown off a building?
I think it requires multiple eye witnesses to convict.
Many middle east countries screen TCNs for homosexuality and HIV.
Recall the scene from Lawrence of Arabia when released from a Turkish jail?
A lot of things were very different over a century ago; and that was "Hollywoodized" to boot: not a particularly sound example.
Sodomy still exists in the middle east in spite of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
ALL sin still exists; what's your point? Humans refuse to learn.
What is TCN? Please don’t use acronyms without explaining them.
Sorry.
Third country nationals.
Many countries import labor from some of the poorer countries.
“Exists” is the extent of your claim? What else has equivalent precedent?
It certainly has. I'm sure it's existed in all parts of the world to a greater or lesser degree since time immemorial but newsflash: Not quite as many bath houses in Tehran or Kabul as San Francisco.
According to a book by RFK junior, Fauci did grievous harm to gay persons via the Aids epidemic.
I miss my friends, Gregg Davenport, and Barnett . They died of the treatment. Slowly.
My wife and I lost a valued friend in 1994. Not until reading RFKs book two years ago, did I retrospectively learn what must have really happened to Tom.
I saw it in real time. Devastating. Sorry for your loss of your friend. Rest in peace Tom
Please realize that it's Big Propaganda that has created this over-emphasis on people being gay and the rest of us being heavily encouraged to resist that. The reality is that there always has been a very small percentage, in virtually any society, of people who fall in love with some one of their own gender, for whatever reason. Same with people who gall in lo e with someone of a different race, religion, different sect of the SAME religion, different nationality, whatEVER.
Then along comes Big Brother and floods social media (along with, for example, libraries -- I hope you know that Google did a soft but thorough takeover of the ALA?) with literally obscene amounts of obscene staged events, and photos therefrom, and instead of using our knowledge and wisdom to see that yet another minority is being used, abused, and often brainwashed to make the majority hate someone, anyone, we try to be first in line to demonize the people who are being trotted out as the latest Threat to Our Preferred Way Of Life. First it's the Brits, [the PEOPLE, not the banksters who control the Crown]; then blacks, then Irish then Jews, Russians, rednecks, libtards, those who follow a different religion, dress code, you name it. Pol Pot actually got his military to slaughter those who wore glasses, as that was somehow proof that they were academics which in turn was somehow proof that they considered themselves a higher class than the majority.
The point is, WHEN are we going to wake up and see how vast the brainwashing manipulation is, and just ignore this bullshit rather than jumping on the Disgusted Bandwagon which IS EXACTLY WHAT THE POWERS THAT BE WANT US TO DO.
When.
Exactly. Well said. There's an X account, Gays Against Groomers, which seeks to distinguish just normal gay people, who want to live their lives, from these mentally ill trans people. The effect, which I don't think is an accident, of all this CRT DEI and Trans/Pride is that women and men become persecuted, and gay kids and tom boys and gay adults all get swept up in the trans category, and then are persecuted and projected on too. So all people who have intimate relationships, or who are capable of that, get trounced by dogmatic people on the right and the left for falling into a category. I'm from San Francisco, and I am all in on consenting adults. Not my business, not my circus, not my monkeys. You want, away from children, to participate in whatever, your choice, (was once) a free country. But we have wannabe power trippers at every level of society, who are both controlling and sadistic. Makes me think of Trujillo, in the Dominican Republic, who massacred people who couldn't pronounce the letter R in the word for parsley.
"...While encouraging European immigration, he ordered Dominican troops to massacre 20,000 black Haitian sugar cane workers in 1937, in response for the Haitian government's support of Dominican exiles seeking to overthrow him. It is said they were identified as immigrants, and then murdered by the truckload, if they could not pronounce the letter r in "perejil" the Spanish word for parsley. This event is the subject of the poem Parsley by Rita Dove, the former Poet Laureate of the United States (and the first African-American to hold that position). Trujillo, who himself was of mixed ancestry, was said to have worn makeup to give himself a whiter appearance, and favored garish uniforms and other militaristic trappings"
Agree!
…own sex please, this is SubStack, not the NYT. gender is for grammar in Romance languages.
Roger Kimber, MD - good point. ‘Gender’ is yet one more word which has been misused. I’m 68, amd until recently, no one ever used ‘gender’ as is done now. We used the words ‘sex, male, female, man, woman, boy, girl’.
I certainly don't disagree that generally speaking, many people fall victim to propaganda of various sorts. Other than that, I don't know if I agree with much you've written here. Comparing the pairing of homosexuals to that of different races, religions, sects, and nationalities seems odd, to me. I won't deny that the propagandists in media often extort, exaggerate and manipulate certain events, but I don't see or hear much about people protesting or parading in support or against those who choose to marry outside their race or religion. Surly you cannot deny that there exists in certain groups in our society, militancy. Homosexuals, for example, sometime talk as though they have a bounty on their heads. Same with certain minorities demanding reparations or "rights" that they already have, but seem to want people to think that they don't or that there is imminent danger of losing those rights.
I have functioning eyes, and functioning ears, and a partially functioning brain. I've observed some people in certain groups who've convinced themselves that they're downtrodden who would probably be doing themselves and all of us a big favor by shutting their mouths and being grateful for what they have.
You must be very young, to not remember those other instances being High Taboo among the ignorant.
LOL! I'm very young alright! 68 years young! And what in the world are you talking about? Is that some kind of code?
Unpopular opinion here: persons who identify as gay cling to victim hood because someplace deep down inside they remain unhappy with themselves. This is true regardless of whether they believe they have come to terms with and accepted the fact that they are gay. Seeing themselves as victims allows them to place the source of their unhappiness outside of themselves rather than inside.
They will always feel like victims because their same-sex attraction is not the natural order of things (NOOT for short) for the majority, and it never will be. Ignoring nature, in this instance the physical design of male and female bodies for "mating" purposes, typically doesn't end well. I don't doubt for a second that homosexuality is real, and feels natural for gay men and lesbian women, but they are a minority, and many are perpetual victims because the NOOT can't be bent to include them. My advice: accept that you're different, and get on with life. We're all different in different ways.
Exactly. I see this in my own family. One member blames everyone else for his personal inner turmoil.
As a gay man living in the (supposedly) backwards Midwest, I think this all the time when I listen to my counterparts. They act like it's still 1970 which is absurd.
John Sbrochi - thanks for sharing that. I also live in the ‘backwards) Midwest. I’m straight. The media stories are framed in such a way as to imply that we all wake up every morning looking for ways to harm or ‘marginalize’ gay folks, when, in reality, we’re not at all concerned with whether someone is gay or not. We’re just trying to live our lives, live and let live. And we’re beyond sick and tired of being perceived as evil.
I live in a neighborhood of whites and blacks, and mixed couples, and couples with children,
and couples without . Everyone seems to get along. In fact, I'd say most people are more concerned about you maintaining your property than who you sleep with. Seems like (another) media manufactured story that has no basis in reality.
Still, it just astounds me how many believe what the media tells them rather than seeing what's right in front of their eyes!
And I should add - I don't consider anyone evil, unless they act in an evil way. Most people are pretty much live and let live.
Exactly! Out here ‘in the real world’, most people do truly get along just fine. I’m 68, and folks my age were raised on the ‘live and let live’ philosophy. I spent my youth living in Southern California, which was quite the melting pot; people from many different backgrounds. We didn’t care…our only concern about people was whether they were ‘good’ or ‘bad’ (most people are good, of course). I think a lot of people aren’t living real lives…instead, they’re staring at screens, sucking up propaganda. It’s horrifying, really.
John, the alphabet community is fast approaching the time when society at large is going to be completely fed up with their 'shove it down their throats' mentality.
We're starting to see some push back here in Canada. ie... banning pride flags in some school districts.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/ontario-catholic-school-board-votes-against-flying-pride-flag-at-schools-5667835
aren't pedophiles basically allowed to display their junk in public in Cali as long as it's an "LGBTQRSTD Parade"?
Yep. I’ve seen many videos. What ever happened to ‘exposing oneself in public’ being a crime? It’s nothing other than sexual deviance. I lived in Southern California as a kid. Glad I’m not there any more. It used to be such a nice place to live.
You can tell who has power by who you're not allowed to criticize.
For example, LGBT-aimed magazines tell potential advertisers that their market is vastly more affluent than other Americans. It's a good way to pitch ad sales, but it belies any claim of oppression. Here's an example, https://equalpride.com
I was going to remark something similar about the per capital income of gay men — many of whom work in the pharmaceutical industry because life is full of irony
" fetish of victimhood"
Yes, it leaks into people and grows and then it stinks.
One of my parents neighbours is gay and he told me that he and his partner felt far more accepted back in the 90's before all this pride crap was rammed down everyone's throats.
If you don’t want to be treated differently for being gay, then stop acting like being gay somehow makes you special. Your sexual orientation is neither an achievement or a holiday. You have not accomplished anything simply by being attracted to one sex or another. But for some reason we ALL have to celebrate this depravity for an entire month. Next month I’m going to let everyone know I’m heterosexual. So feel free to praise me for my courage and incredible bravery .
"Next month I’m going to let everyone know I’m heterosexual. So feel free to praise me for my courage and incredible bravery"
Exactly. For that particular reason, I resent the use of the word "gay", which is an acronym for "good as you", if I'm not mistaken. Not only do we have enough confusing neologisms already but they're obviously not as good as me. While they're having a good time between themselves, I have to deal with *women* FFS.
I'm heroic.
Ironic, since gay really means happy, and the incidence and prevalence of depression and suicidal behavior are about double the usual rate IIRC, and God marked the end of the Flood with a Rainbow as a sign that he wouldn’t destroy the earth again with a flood (and undoubtedly one of the sins for which God sent the Flood was homosexuality), so in a very Biblical sense, homosexuals are living under the protection of God’s rainbow (at least until the Second Coming, as we all are), though they would be loath to admit that.
Almost as if God ordained it (the Bible is full of irony if we would only notice.
Erm, yeah, ok. I was only trying to make a (lame) joke.
I don't know about the Bible, I believe Anatoly Fomenko has a point as for its origins. My own point is adult relationships are unnecessarily complex already. I never cared much for them.
The best way to describe homosexuality I've read so far comes from Anais Nin, who calls them "the cheaters". That's the way I see it, too. Lots of cheating going on, in pretty much every aspect of human affairs. And lies.
Oh, and thank you for the lesson on the etymology of gay, or should I say GAY?, I never knew that & wondered (as I do more & more) where did that come from?
I did not check the actual etymology, it's just a distant memory so don't quote me on that.
Not for attribution anyway.
If gender orientation (whatever that means) is what you are born as and not simply a smorgasbord of niche options on a menu from which to choose, then it is no more a condition in which one should take pride than that of being a man or a woman.
Maybe the real answer to feeling "uncomfortable in one's own skin" is getting psych help to understand the roots of such feelings, and "weeding" those roots out of oneself, then becoming the best person one can be!