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well of course not. but if that's what it took, would you do it?We should not have to become stepford ***s to have our rights recognized.
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well of course not. but if that's what it took, would you do it?We should not have to become stepford ***s to have our rights recognized.
What kind of rights are those? "If you just fall in line and behave like we want you to, you can have your gay marriage."well of course not. but if that's what it took, would you do it?
Thailand(at least i think it was taiwan.)
This x1000. I generally dislike anybody that makes one thing a central part of their personality.it seems to me that sage is trying to help the gay community by giving his opinion about how they can have a better chance of being accepted by mainstream society. when people label you as "gay", if you act like any other person would normally, that label begins to lose negative connotations and people begin to accept you more. it's just how human psychology works.
i know a few openly gay people, and the less they make "being gay" a key part of their personality, the more fun they are to be around. i also know a few people who aren't openly gay, but act gay and almost certainly are. this pisses me off the most.
Their efforts on heath care were supposed to be framed as both an economic strategy and about health care, because it would lower costs and save families money, etc. But the republicans framed it as more government control and death panels, and because the democrats have no spine they lost the tone of the debate. MA electing a Republican isn't as big of a deal as you make it out to be; Coakley wasn't that engaging and committed a number of gaffes during her campaign, while Scott Brown is charming and a social moderate. An electable Republican in Massachusetts is quite different from one in Texas.
This is starting to get off topic and we both agree on the relevant point here. Democrats pursued a policy that was harder to pass than gay rights and are now suffering the consequences of it.No, it wasn't an agenda. It was an all consuming issue that allowed for nothing else to get done; it sucked up all the oxygen in the room and went on for far too long, and once it was started the Dems couldn't back out of it. It was stupid to go for it first, they should have gone for something easier.
This is not news to me. The government wasting a couple more dollars on one more ineffective or hurtful policy is not as big a deal as the entire economy tanking in my point of view. I think it's dumb but I still care more about other issues and this one is just a symptom of an overall problem (wasteful spending) in our government on all levels.The idea that DADT doesn't affect you just shows how poorly the Democrats have done in framing the issue; not only is DADT a national security issue, as we have discharged hundreds of Arab linguists in the past decade - linguists that we need when combating global terrorism as well as in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan - but it's also a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars, as the military has wasted all that money in training and providing for these discharged soldiers, but also has to train the new recruits to replace them. Considering how much of our federal budget and deficit is made up of the defense budget, I think most Americans would support anything that is a rational costcutting measure that doesn't weaken our armed forces. The dems just aren't smart enough to frame it as such.
Third parties usually don't rise to prominence due to multiple issues. I honestly think it's better politically for gays to support a third party that supports their rights that doesn't even get any seats instead of supporting a party that halfheartedly supports them and in the long run doesn't do anything for them.Third parties aren't really viable in American politics; the last time a third party came into prominence was the Republican party in the mid 1800s. There's too much outside influence that's bent on maintaining the status quo for any party change to be enacted.
Less than 1% of americans watched that.And I had heard of Obama in 2008...considering how he rose to national prominence in 04 with his speech at the DNC.
The british just made them servants and the like so it didn't really change anything. Also British people (and Europeans in general) are much more racist than Americans. Their countries are based on race. Also British parliament members yell at each other and use ad-hominem attacks much more than American Congressmen.British politics and American politics are so different that argument doesn't hold water. Britain is much more civil and less polarized than America; they did away with slavery with a vote 50 years or so before we kicked off our war to end it.
Except that's just how blacks got their rights. The reason prop 8 didn't pass probably was due to the religious latino voters.Also, let's just let black people in the South convince people to vote for their right to attend school. The rights of minorities should NEVER be voted on because the minorities always get trampled by the tyranny of the majority; we saw it with Prop 8 in California, even though the amendment is unconstitutional on the basis of both the state constitution and the 14th Amendment.
I'm saying that the way the gays are portrayed in the media is what emphasizes the stereotypes. How gay people act is as diverse as how straight people act. It just seems that a loud annoying minority of the gay community seems to speak over the rest of them. If all outspoken republicans (I'm talking about voters) acted like Palin, wouldn't you eventually associate that negative behavior with all republicans? That's how the majority of people against homosexual rights that aren't religious view gay people (even the ones that do probably view them that way). I personally don't think this.Additionally your argument is heteronormative and disgusting, frankly. It essentializes gay people to stereotypes and caricatures and ignores all the normal gay people out there; just like not all Republicans are Palins, not all gays are Carson from Queer Eye. It's the most outspoken and most outrageous people who get attention in our culture.
That's a terrible strategy. Lawmakers can just make it so that you having any rights at all is illegal or ignore the decisions of the courts. You need to have your rights written on a law of some sort.The strategy for the gays should be that we should just keep suing until we get our way, because the law and the courts are on our side. That's where most of our legal success has come from because our elected representatives are spineless.
I have to accept how everybody expresses themselves? There are straight people who I don't like because of how they express themselves. Should I accept how all gay people act simply because they are a minority? I do believe that everybody has a right to act how they want. Does not mean I have to like or respect how they act. I'm not ok with people "expressing" their religion towards other people in a forceful way, but because they are allowed to act that way I have to be ok with it?sage: You seem very solidly in favor of people's rights to do what they want. If so, how can you not be OK with gay people expressing themselves in the way that they choose?
Those stereotypes are what are emphasized by the gay community. Show that your attitudes and personalities are as diverse as the heterosexual community. Being gay should not be automatically associated as acting in any sort of specific way, yet it is. Fight those stereotypes instead of promoting them.We should not have to become stepford ***s to have our rights recognized. That is ridiculous, and that mentality is what relegates gay people to the archetypes of either the sassy gay friend (the must have accessory for straight women) or the sexless castrados of Wisteria Lane, who are allowed to be seen and not heard, whose affections are deemed too risqué for prime-time while heteros can have simulated and implied sex. There's a clear double standard, and your mentality only serves to keep gays in their place - as second place citizens - until we learn how to act from the heterosexual white man and his definition of what constitutes normal gender behavior
Both blacks and women demonstrated that they were valuable parts of america, not only socially, but also economically and politically and that is the main way they got their rights recognized. That's what the LGBT community needs to do. Constantly saying saying we deserve rights because that's the right thing won't get you anywhere.if only the blacks had stayed with separate but equal, martin luther king shouldn't have had a dream
if only the women had be content with raising kids and taking care of the house
Do you realize how messed up that is? Treating an entire class of people as entertainment? Let's do that to little people too... They are SO funny, I'm sure they'd be fine with that... And considering the majority of the world, we're pretty far along in lgbt rights. There's still some work but considering Romania's attitude to gay people, its ranking on how socially developed it is compared to other countries, and how many countries there are in the world, is extremely depressing.btw, if you look at cultures outside of america, you'd realize how far behind we are when it comes to lgbt etc. Hell, in Taiwan, what we call drag queens are a popular form of entertainment and are recognized as their own gender with a special word, and they are equals in society. (at least i think it was taiwan.)
What? I'm saying people should fight to be able to act how they want. I'm criticizing how gay people are going on about accomplishing that though. They have put an enormous effort with little to show for it compared to other comparable countries (ie western europe and the asian tigers and japan).America is all about freedom. Why shouldn't people fight to act how they want and still be treated equal?
Maybe i should have phrased it better. There are men who dress in drag everyday, some put on shows some just go about life normally. They are treated as equal and have a special word to refer to their gender. Just like how in America, some people dress and drag just because, and some do so and put on shows, only these people are looked down on by society as a whole.Do you realize how messed up that is? Treating an entire class of people as entertainment?
who said that any of what i said was directed at you in the first place?What? I'm saying people should fight to be able to act how they want. I'm criticizing how gay people are going on about accomplishing that though. They have put an enormous effort with little to show for it compared to other comparable countries (ie western europe and the asian tigers and japan).
she's a **** and we all know itIndeed. On a related not, what does everyone think of Peach's comportment in real life? Is she really the total sloozy that Falcon clearly has his rocks up for, the one who feigns innocence but sleeps with half the football team...
Or do those big, beautiful lashes gild eyes who truly do widen in horror when she first learns of this other, debased reputation she's somehow acquired...?
What do we think: is her smile and fun-loving tennis playing wholesome and pure, or does it belie some wild debauchery she has in store for later?
...which would spawn a debate about which group has "rights" and which group doesn't. it's not so simple as to say that everybody should have as many rights as possible, because often times they tend to conflict with each other. another good example would be a corporation's "right" to create pollution vs. the citizens' "right" to not have their environment trashed.Unborn children lost the right to life with Roe v. Wade.
(playing devil's advocate because i'm bored)That assumes that they had that right to begin with, but seeing as how they are not autonomous and no one had ever articulated that right as strictly theirs, then that right would not have been "lost." Seeing as how fetuses aren't people, then they don't have rights. Even if they were, the right of the mother supersedes any (possibly fictitious) fetal right that can never be articulated.
(Still playing devil's advocate)All rights that expand equality - unless there's a warranted reason to restrict those rights - are generally good. There are good reasons to ban things like incest, but not reasons to ban gay marriage.
You missed my point.my favorite part was when he just stated that "fetuses aren't people" as if it was a scientific law
That may be how it should be in an ideal world however our world is far from ideal. Morality is inextricable from almost all aspects of our life. We see things subjectively. Stealing isn't just illegal because it's seen as an infringement of property.@Ambix.
No.
People's rights and laws are not to be subjected to morality, because morality is inherently arbitrary. What's moral for you is not universal, and to try and create laws based off of something as personal as morality is subjective at best. This is why our laws are structured out of a rights based framework. Stealing is illegal not because it is right or wrong (because how would such thing be determined?) it's illegal because it's an infringement on property.
When I said competition was the reason for the ban on gay marriage I didn't mean physical competition. Emotional, moral, philosophical, random abstract concept, etc.Competition is not the reason gay marriage is banned. Firstly, gays and straights are competing for different resources. Men are not going to go for lesbians when looking to make babies. Secondly, the concept of homosexuality as a sexual orientation is so recent in the scope of human history that issues of needing children to work the farm were far resolved by the time people started legislating their heterosexism into law. Additionally, gays can reproduce with modern technology, and also we can adopt all the excess children you irresponsible breeders are bearing. And did you just insinuate that people who practice incest aren't human? lawl. If you're going to restrict freedoms you need rational reasons to; incest isn't restricted because of the squick factor or the Bible, it's restricted because it harms society for various reasons. Social taboos also help keep it in check.
Marriage isn't a core component of society. Exclusive romantic attachment is a core component of human social interaction. There is a difference. The urge to avoid loneliness is instinctual in most humans. Society isn't built on it. It's built to accomodate it.Finally, marriage has several benefits. It's one of the core components of a civilized society. Marriage stabilizes men and promotes partnerships that stabilize a modern society, from providing stable homes to children, having a a stable sex life, and even a longer lifespan; it's not just about tax exemptions. As capitalism introduced more freedom to nations, so did their attitudes change. Opponents of gay marriage say that we're seeking to redefine marriage; however straight people have already, past tense, redefined marriage. Marriage is no longer the traditional definition, where one man made the gift of property called daughter to another man which became the property called wife. People were able to marry by choice and for love, something that runs very contrary to the traditional definition of marriage. As times have changed, the current definition of marriage has changed as well, as it has become a partnership of equals, to the point in which it makes no logical sense to exclude same-sex couples from making that same level of commitment.
Unless being gay drastically changed my personality (which by your previous arguments it shouldn't), I still wouldn't give a flying tinwhistle shit what the government had to say about my relationships.It's cute that you don't feel like you need the government to sanction your relationships; you might feel differently if you were a minority who had those rights denied to you.
I enjoyed this thoroughly.
Why not drop by here? http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=11759977#post11759977I wish I was an ice climbers player
Definitely. I was gonna wait before I told anyone this, but I'm moving to midwest soonLMAO yea... *sigh*
Oh and Vanz, we totally do need to play some day man >_<. My semester should be relatively easy so we should prolly be able to play a lot more.
where in the midwest? we aren't that desolate lol, unless you're moving to the dakotas or somethingDefinitely. I was gonna wait before I told anyone this, but I'm moving to midwest soon
AKA never gonna play melee again out there.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?Definitely. I was gonna wait before I told anyone this, but I'm moving to midwest soon
AKA never gonna play melee again out there.
So we gotta play before that
BTW it's been almost 2 months since my last tournament (ROM3)
WTF!!!!!!!!!! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO SECRETIVE ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!!!!111111 FDJAFJDKLSAJF =/ I'm a sad panda. You're moving away and then Haley might move, and then I'll be like emo foreverDefinitely. I was gonna wait before I told anyone this, but I'm moving to midwest soon
AKA never gonna play melee again out there.
So we gotta play before that
BTW it's been almost 2 months since my last tournament (ROM3)