Obama's magazine cover JUST KIDDING LOL One of the most hysterical myths about President Obama, perpetuated by men who seem quite out of touch with their own masculinity, is that President Obama, with his swagger and his hot wife, is secretly a gay.
There is an almost clinical mass mental illness among the right because of the right-wing echo chamber, in other words Fox and hate radio. When a Democrat (anyone, it doesn't matter) wins the White House again, they will all be amazed, again. They think the world they are presented is real and that the majority agrees with them. Mass delusion.
The Qur'an itself is no more or less homophobic than the Old Testament; the subject is only broached with stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, with Lut (aka Lot) yelling STOP THAT YOU GUYS THAT'S GROSS.
Growing up in the 70's and 80's, I found out later on that my classmates all thought I was homosexual because I hung out with a lot of gay people while I was doing the whole theater and chorus thing. I was also a football player, D&D geek and Latin team member, so I got put into all kinds of categories, but being as large as I was, most people didnt feel comfortable saying it to my face.
But I have never been bothered by someone else's sexuality and even got hit on a couple of times before I looked like the 'After' picture of a fatal car accident. I dont understand the whole gay thing, Im pretty sure I am never going to wake up looking at another man and feeling romantic, but I also know that gay people feel the same way I do, but in reverse. If being gay was a 'choice', then why would anyone choose to be abused, treated like crap, beaten and discriminated against, just to be with someone?
Most self described 'christians' are actually hypocristians. They wouldnt know their Christ if he pissed on their leg.
You bring up an interesting point about when you grew up, and possibly where. I was born in '54 and was in high school from '68 to '72 in a smallish Michigan town not near any major areas of diversity or culture. Amazingly enough, we didn't have any gay people in my entire high school! That was snark. Of course we did, but they hid it well.
I'm just the opposite of you. When I was younger I always had long hair and wore at least a little makeup up. Men hit on me from the time I was about 14-year-old.
I hit a point about 15 years back that I decided fuck that shit, I was fine the way I was, and I really, really hated hair hanging in my face all the time. I got it cropped super short and don't wear makeup anywhere anymore. Needless to say, now I'm sure about half the people who pass me on the street just assume I'm a lesbian, and I'm absolutely fine with that.
I was in high school during the same time (but a year ahead of you) in a large Michigan city and gays were so discreet there that I didn't know that they even existed, that there even was such a thing as homosexuality. (It was never talked about or taught about or had its existence even acknowledged, not even in Health class. And I was reasonably well-informed, having been an avid reader of fiction and nonfiction, and I followed the news every day just like everyone else. I had already developed a keen interest in liberal and left-wing politics that took root in my mind way crazy early in grade school following the 1960 election. But while lots of other social issues were being discussed everywhere in the 60s, homosexuality was never mentioned in the mainstream media or practically anywhere else.) I literally had no inkling of it until I went off to college, where I became aware of that along with many other things in the world that my parents and teachers had never told me about. I learned about male homosexuality in my freshman year. I didn't learn about female homosexuality until at least a decade later. And yeah, that's kind of embarrassing to admit even now after all these years.
Like a lot of straights (I suspect), I am only learning about transgendered people now. There is still much that I don't know but I am getting more and more informed as time goes on.
Many social customs such as hand-holding have meanings in other cultures that are quite different from the meanings that they have here in North America. Some of the gestures may look the same but they don't mean the same. Hell, even across the US there are some significant differences. I grew up in the Great Lakes Basin and now live in the northern tier of the Northeastern US. Whenever I go and visit friends and in-laws in the NYC/Long Island region I am always a little taken aback by all of the hugging they do there.
I don't actually object to it, mind you. If that's the custom I can deal with it. But despite years and years of making such visits, it always catches me by surprise. I mean, Every. Single. Time. I never see it coming. Again, I am completely fine with it, but still I always feel a little bit awkward and am never quite sure what to do.
Maybe it isn't a lot in an absolute sense but it sure seems that way to someone with my cultural background. In Michigan and Western NY people never hug at all when they meet or depart. At most you may hug, or more likely be hugged, awkwardly by your Mom or Grandmom when you are a little kid. But social hugging between grown-ups? Never. And down on the coast they do big, substantial hugs, and men and women even place little kisses on each others' cheeks during the process, too!
Yikes, what's up with that?
In upstate NY and inland New England we will give each other a much more abbreviated, almost perfunctory hug, often consisting of just arm contact and a slight lean in towards each other. That's actually pretty common. Even I do it now, preceded by only a moment of uncomfortable hesitation. But no kissing, ever. And in the Midwest/Great Lakes region? No touching! People from the East Coast must think that we are totally cold and unemotional. (Not true. At least not most of the time.)
He *is* right about the Islam thing, the Syria thing, and the secrecy thing. Especially the secrecy thing. Obama sucks rat dicks on that front.
There is an almost clinical mass mental illness among the right because of the right-wing echo chamber, in other words Fox and hate radio. When a Democrat (anyone, it doesn't matter) wins the White House again, they will all be amazed, again. They think the world they are presented is real and that the majority agrees with them. Mass delusion.
That damned Spot?
IMPEACH!!!
It's time for a Wonkette Roll Call. Anyone not present is assumed to be in their bunk with the color photo up top.
You want a "Kim Davis"?
Wait, what? The President supports Islam and Muslims, and you seem to be agreeing that that's a bad thing?
We´ve all got gutters that need cleaning.
The Qur'an itself is no more or less homophobic than the Old Testament; the subject is only broached with stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, with Lut (aka Lot) yelling STOP THAT YOU GUYS THAT'S GROSS.
Everyone when they watch Supernatural even the guys on Supernatural.
"Did she eat them?"
Growing up in the 70's and 80's, I found out later on that my classmates all thought I was homosexual because I hung out with a lot of gay people while I was doing the whole theater and chorus thing. I was also a football player, D&D geek and Latin team member, so I got put into all kinds of categories, but being as large as I was, most people didnt feel comfortable saying it to my face.
But I have never been bothered by someone else's sexuality and even got hit on a couple of times before I looked like the 'After' picture of a fatal car accident. I dont understand the whole gay thing, Im pretty sure I am never going to wake up looking at another man and feeling romantic, but I also know that gay people feel the same way I do, but in reverse. If being gay was a 'choice', then why would anyone choose to be abused, treated like crap, beaten and discriminated against, just to be with someone?
Most self described 'christians' are actually hypocristians. They wouldnt know their Christ if he pissed on their leg.
Have a great day!
You bring up an interesting point about when you grew up, and possibly where. I was born in '54 and was in high school from '68 to '72 in a smallish Michigan town not near any major areas of diversity or culture. Amazingly enough, we didn't have any gay people in my entire high school! That was snark. Of course we did, but they hid it well.
I'm just the opposite of you. When I was younger I always had long hair and wore at least a little makeup up. Men hit on me from the time I was about 14-year-old.
I hit a point about 15 years back that I decided fuck that shit, I was fine the way I was, and I really, really hated hair hanging in my face all the time. I got it cropped super short and don't wear makeup anywhere anymore. Needless to say, now I'm sure about half the people who pass me on the street just assume I'm a lesbian, and I'm absolutely fine with that.
You have a great day too! :)
Yes you will
I was in high school during the same time (but a year ahead of you) in a large Michigan city and gays were so discreet there that I didn't know that they even existed, that there even was such a thing as homosexuality. (It was never talked about or taught about or had its existence even acknowledged, not even in Health class. And I was reasonably well-informed, having been an avid reader of fiction and nonfiction, and I followed the news every day just like everyone else. I had already developed a keen interest in liberal and left-wing politics that took root in my mind way crazy early in grade school following the 1960 election. But while lots of other social issues were being discussed everywhere in the 60s, homosexuality was never mentioned in the mainstream media or practically anywhere else.) I literally had no inkling of it until I went off to college, where I became aware of that along with many other things in the world that my parents and teachers had never told me about. I learned about male homosexuality in my freshman year. I didn't learn about female homosexuality until at least a decade later. And yeah, that's kind of embarrassing to admit even now after all these years.
Like a lot of straights (I suspect), I am only learning about transgendered people now. There is still much that I don't know but I am getting more and more informed as time goes on.
Many social customs such as hand-holding have meanings in other cultures that are quite different from the meanings that they have here in North America. Some of the gestures may look the same but they don't mean the same. Hell, even across the US there are some significant differences. I grew up in the Great Lakes Basin and now live in the northern tier of the Northeastern US. Whenever I go and visit friends and in-laws in the NYC/Long Island region I am always a little taken aback by all of the hugging they do there.
I don't actually object to it, mind you. If that's the custom I can deal with it. But despite years and years of making such visits, it always catches me by surprise. I mean, Every. Single. Time. I never see it coming. Again, I am completely fine with it, but still I always feel a little bit awkward and am never quite sure what to do.
Maybe it isn't a lot in an absolute sense but it sure seems that way to someone with my cultural background. In Michigan and Western NY people never hug at all when they meet or depart. At most you may hug, or more likely be hugged, awkwardly by your Mom or Grandmom when you are a little kid. But social hugging between grown-ups? Never. And down on the coast they do big, substantial hugs, and men and women even place little kisses on each others' cheeks during the process, too!
Yikes, what's up with that?
In upstate NY and inland New England we will give each other a much more abbreviated, almost perfunctory hug, often consisting of just arm contact and a slight lean in towards each other. That's actually pretty common. Even I do it now, preceded by only a moment of uncomfortable hesitation. But no kissing, ever. And in the Midwest/Great Lakes region? No touching! People from the East Coast must think that we are totally cold and unemotional. (Not true. At least not most of the time.)
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