Comments on: Straight Facts About, uh, You Know… http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/ America's favorite blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:22:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Ananna http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7109 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7109 Oh partner who shares not only my sexuality but my gender as well, did you hear the voices of the peoples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki cry out in terror and pain as they died? I did too, honey. Let's have a smoke and think of Iran. No, I don't like that at all. Let's have a re-election like they want to do in Washington State. Love, Hanna Oh partner who shares not only my sexuality but my gender as well, did you hear the voices of the peoples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki cry out in terror and pain as they died? I did too, honey. Let’s have a smoke and think of Iran.

No, I don’t like that at all. Let’s have a re-election like they want to do in Washington State.

Love,

Hanna

]]> by: tess http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7110 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7110 I feel the need to crack a Gannon/Guckert joke right about now . . . I feel the need to crack a Gannon/Guckert joke right about now . . .

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7111 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7111 Well, uh, the real issue seems to me, uh, to be that there is no, you know, reason to heighten public awareness of this issue, at least not in any way that might, well, suggest that these are specific groups of real people with identities worthy of specific recognition, and who are at double or triple the risk for, well, uh, the intentional ending of their own sentient existences. What's next, calling Iraqi children mangled by cluster bombs Iraqi children mangled by cluster bombs? They are, well, you know, youthful collateral damage, and some of them might even be "cheerful." Well, uh, the real issue seems to me, uh, to be that there is no, you know, reason to heighten public awareness of this issue, at least not in any way that might, well, suggest that these are specific groups of real people with identities worthy of specific recognition, and who are at double or triple the risk for, well, uh, the intentional ending of their own sentient existences.

What’s next, calling Iraqi children mangled by cluster bombs Iraqi children mangled by cluster bombs? They are, well, you know, youthful collateral damage, and some of them might even be “cheerful.”

]]> by: Mike Z http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7112 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7112 I can see where the feds are coming from here. I mean, if we talk explicitly about higher suicide rates among GLBTs, then we're just legitimizing that kind of lifestyle, right? -- As many of you probably know, The Simpsons had a gay marriage episode last Sunday. Some of the coverage in the NY Times was really priceless. I quote: "L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Parents Television Council, criticized 'The Simpsons' for addressing the issue of gay marriage, though he cautioned that he had not seen the episode... 'At a time when the public mood is overwhelmingly against gay marriage, any show that promotes gay marriage is deliberately bucking the public mood'... 'Do children need to have gay marriage thrust in their faces as an issue? Why can't we just entertain them?' " Presumably he figures we should just show them old Lawrence Welk reruns. That seems more in line with the overwhelming public mood. I can see where the feds are coming from here. I mean, if we talk explicitly about higher suicide rates among GLBTs, then we’re just legitimizing that kind of lifestyle, right?

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As many of you probably know, The Simpsons had a gay marriage episode last Sunday. Some of the coverage in the NY Times was really priceless.
I quote:

“L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Parents Television Council, criticized ‘The Simpsons’ for addressing the issue of gay marriage, though he cautioned that he had not seen the episode…
‘At a time when the public mood is overwhelmingly against gay marriage, any show that promotes gay marriage is deliberately bucking the public mood’… ‘Do children need to have gay marriage thrust in their faces as an issue? Why can’t we just entertain them?’ ”

Presumably he figures we should just show them old Lawrence Welk reruns. That seems more in line with the overwhelming public mood.

]]> by: bjd http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7113 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7113 Butbutbut.... bubble machines and singing showtunes while dressed in sequined suits are so GAY! Good night, good night And pleasant dreams to you Here's a wish and a prayer That every dream comes true And now, till we meet again ... Adios, au revoir, auf weidersehen ... Good night! Butbutbut…. bubble machines and singing showtunes while dressed in sequined suits are so GAY!

Good night, good night
And pleasant dreams to you
Here’s a wish and a prayer
That every dream comes true

And now, till we meet again …
Adios, au revoir, auf weidersehen … Good night!

]]> by: dee http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7114 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7114 Thanks for the song bomb, bjd. Thanks for the song bomb, bjd.

]]> by: Kelli http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7115 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7115 I saw that Simpsons episode, the administration should have loved it. It equated uh, same and/or similar gender attracted people entering into marriage with people marrying animals and inanimate objects. It is possible that everyone was offended. I saw that Simpsons episode, the administration should have loved it. It equated uh, same and/or similar gender attracted people entering into marriage with people marrying animals and inanimate objects.

It is possible that everyone was offended.

]]> by: Monty Zoom http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7116 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7116 Do you think that the non-acceptance of the life style of those who differently inclined towards the same sex as they perhaps are or were has anything to do with the tendency towards premature termination of ones own life? Nah! I think the episode of the Simpson's was not nearly offensive enough. I think the beginning warning was a total cop-out. But that may just be me... Do you think that the non-acceptance of the life style of those who differently inclined towards the same sex as they perhaps are or were has anything to do with the tendency towards premature termination of ones own life? Nah!

I think the episode of the Simpson’s was not nearly offensive enough. I think the beginning warning was a total cop-out. But that may just be me…

]]> by: Mary http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7117 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7117 That's one way to stop the "Gay Agenda"- don't allow the word to be used. Sheesh!! I wish these idiots would get a clue. As for the Simpson's, I thought it was hysterical. Guess that means it didn't offend everyone ;-) "You can't marry something that doesn't exist. Or, can you?.............." That’s one way to stop the “Gay Agenda”- don’t allow the word to be used. Sheesh!! I wish these idiots would get a clue.

As for the Simpson’s, I thought it was hysterical. Guess that means it didn’t offend everyone ;-)

“You can’t marry something that doesn’t exist. Or, can you?…………..”

]]> by: Matt http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7118 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/02/21/straight-facts-about-uh-you-know/#comment-7118 Mike Z. The thread where we make up comments by people who never viewed the thing they are commenting on was a couple days prior. You are making it up right? Kelli. The Simpson goal is to offend everyone in the great tradition of satire. Take a perposterous situation and make it more perposterous to expose the initial perposterity. Not that I saw the episode or anything. The best part is that "he cautioned that he had not seen the episode..." Mike Z. The thread where we make up comments by people who never viewed the thing they are commenting on was a couple days prior. You are making it up right?

Kelli. The Simpson goal is to offend everyone in the great tradition of satire. Take a perposterous situation and make it more perposterous to expose the initial perposterity. Not that I saw the episode or anything.

The best part is that “he cautioned that he had not seen the episode…”

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