Perhaps it's time for 'Day Without A Gay' on DU

[BannedFromDU]

Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-17-11 02:06 PM
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Perhaps it's time for 'Day Without A Gay' on DU
   
I'm growing increasingly tired and frustrated with the seemingly endless discussion about whether LBGTs are treated fairly on DU. Everyone's made their point, and it seems highly unlikely that all but a few people will be swayed.

I'm tired of being told that we don't really matter, that we should just be patient. I'm also upset that our many supporters have stuck their necks out for us and accomplished relatively little in return.

It's clear that, at the federal level, the Democratic Party thinks they can win in 2012 without our support. Maybe that's the case; maybe not.

But right here at home, here on DU, I'm ready to take a stand. We aren't just a bunch of uppity homosexuals (and others and supporters); we're a key part of this community, and we contribute in ways that go far beyond the GLBT forum. (And, for some members, we go far beyond "antagonizing" and "disrupting.")

I'm prepared to pick a day and not post (or reply) on DU, and perhaps it's time for other LGBTs and supporters to join me. (Or maybe more than a day.) I have no delusions; DU will continue to run just fine without me and the rest of us. But I'm also at least slightly egotistical enough to believe that our absence would be at least noticed -- perhaps much more than some others might expect.

The tensions here continue to escalate, much more so in the past week, and I'm at my wit's end on what can be done about it. This is the best idea I've got; feel free to love it, hate it, or anything else. But something has to change.

It's just too easy...really target-rich environment.


How about A Year Without a Queer?
A Week with Empty Butt Cheeks?

[franksolich]

Well, let franksolich add to the weariness of the whining primitive:

I'm tired of being told that we don't really matter.....

No, you really don't matter.

There's tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions in the world today going to bed hungry or ill, or who don't even have a bed to go to.

There's hundreds of millions, if not more than a billion-some, in the world today being oppressed by totalitarian socialists.

There's people dying all over the place, everywhere.  And many of them before their time.

Compared with this vast humanity of suffering and persecution, no, you and your concerns really don't matter; in fact, you and your concerns are pretty stupid.

[JohnnyReb]

It's the gay way or the highway.

[Revolution]

Newsjock, you self loathing, homophobe.

ALERT! ALERT!! ALERT!!!

[micmac]

Well, let franksolich add to the weariness of the whining primitive:

No, you really don't matter.

There's tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions in the world today going to bed hungry or ill, or who don't even have a bed to go to.

There's hundreds of millions, if not more than a billion-some, in the world today being oppressed by totalitarian socialists.

There's people dying all over the place, everywhere.  And many of them before their time.

Compared with this vast humanity of suffering and persecution, no, you and your concerns really don't matter; in fact, you and your concerns are pretty stupid.

You are correct, sir!!

[Duke Nukum]

By all means, Newsjock. Pick a day. Better yet, why not a whole Day Without a DUer. Why don't you all just choose a day, and shut the heck up for an entire day. In your guy's case, not saying anything for a single day would be akin to doing months of positive thinking, which you are incapable of at any rate, so you should start where you are. Just shut up and ignore yourselves for one day.

[Celtic Rose]

Well, let franksolich add to the weariness of the whining primitive:

No, you really don't matter.

There's tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions in the world today going to bed hungry or ill, or who don't even have a bed to go to.

There's hundreds of millions, if not more than a billion-some, in the world today being oppressed by totalitarian socialists.

There's people dying all over the place, everywhere.  And many of them before their time.

Compared with this vast humanity of suffering and persecution, no, you and your concerns really don't matter; in fact, you and your concerns are pretty stupid.

What a nice bit of perspective for the DUmmies.  I doubt that it will even register, but I commend you for trying.

[Ballygrl]

lightningandsnow  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 05:12 PM
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4. I was going to make some stupid joke about just taking a half-day because I'm bi.
   
But, yes. The homophobia and transphobia (and just rampant privilege and prejudice on every axis) here, and in the world at large, gets tiresome.

OK, that was very and how the heck many phobias are there? just because people disagree it doesn't make them a homophobe or racist.

[Splashdown]

Did you ever hear the ol' legal chestnut that you're free to swing your arm until it comes into contact with my nose? I feel the same way about the homosexual community.

I couldn't care less where anyone sticks their penis, as long as there are a few caveats.

1. Kids are out of bounds.

2. Keep me--and the rest of society--out of it.

3. Keep my kids out of it.

In other words. Go! Live your life! Just don't force me, legally or otherwise, to sanction a lifestyle that I'm uncomfortable with. Do whatever you want. But once your fist comes in contact with my face--or any of your body parts come into contact with the way I choose to live my life--then we have a problem.

[GOBUCKS]

He went through that whole excruciating whinefest and didn't even give us a date for Not One Damn Queer Day. That's really gay.

[thelaughingman]

I'm growing increasingly tired and frustrated with the seemingly endless discussion about whether LBGTs are treated fairly on DU.

What?  The gheys are complaining about being treated unfairly because their posts about being gay are cloistered away in their own forum like every other fringe group on DU?  They're complaining about being treated unfairly because DU is not "ghey, ghey, ghey" in every post 24/7?

[JakeStyle]

Wasn't there a "movie" called A Day Without a Mexican a couple years ago?  The premise was that American society breaks down when all the illegal aliens suddenly disappear and there is no one left to pick our veggies, or wash dishes for minimum wage, mow the lawn, etc.  I wonder what vital service we would be deprived of if a bunch of fags suddenly vanished?

[Chris_]

Wasn't there a "movie" called A Day Without a Mexican a couple years ago?  The premise was that American society breaks down when all the illegal aliens suddenly disappear and there is no one left to pick our veggies, or wash dishes for minimum wage, mow the lawn, etc. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377744/

[GOBUCKS]

I wonder what vital service we would be deprived of if a bunch of fags suddenly vanished?

I think Karin mentioned one in an earlier thread:

GOBUCKS, I'm trying to think of a service you're missing out on that Carl, BSS and I enjoy.  Hmm.  Hmm.  Ummm.  Just looking in the phone book, we have:
Human Rights Division of AIDS Discrimination

[DefiantSix]

 

 

[BEG]

I am the only gay in the village.

[youtube=425,350]VZ2d3h_TgU0[/youtube]

[USA4ME]

I hope they do it.  The fighting that would ensue the day they were gone between those who claim to support the twinkies and those who have been labeled as the reason they took the day off would be grand to watch.

Of course, like all events planned by the primitives, they just never seem to materialize into action, which will likely be the case here.

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[Ballygrl]

Wouldn't there be a bigger impact if they did a "Day Without A Mole" Day on DU?

[franksolich]

Wouldn't there be a bigger impact if they did a "Day Without A Mole" Day on DU?

A day without a mole would make Skins's island deader than a cemetery.

You are aware, of course, that it's the moles that stimulate the primitives.  Without moles, the primitives would just lay there, comatose.  The primitives need to be constantly prodded, as they're not going to do anything on their own.

[Ballygrl]

A day without a mole would make Skins's island deader than a cemetery.

You are aware, of course, that it's the moles that stimulate the primitives.  Without moles, the primitives would just lay there, comatose.  The primitives need to be constantly prodded, as they're not going to do anything on their own.

Just out of curiosity frank, and of course this isn't scientific, in your opinion, of the active posters, what percentage would you think are moles? are we just talking 5%? or could it go to 50% or higher?

[franksolich]

Just out of curiosity frank, and of course this isn't scientific, in your opinion, of the active posters, what percentage would you think are moles? are we just talking 5%? or could it go to 50% or higher?

Oh, actually, it's probably down there, maybe more than 5%, but less than 10%.

And from all over the place, not only from freerepublic or our old home or here; from probably hundreds of different message-boards.

Remember, it doesn't take many decent and civilized people to outwit the primitives.

Sort of like the U.S. Marines--all one needs is a few good men, no more than that.

[Ballygrl]

Oh, actually, it's probably down there, maybe more than 5%, but less than 10%.

And from all over the place, not only from freerepublic or our old home or here; from probably hundreds of different message-boards.

Remember, it doesn't take many decent and civilized people to outwit the primitives.

Sort of like the U.S. Marines--all one needs is a few good men, no more than that.

For some reason I thought it would be higher, but the ones there do a good job stirring up the hive.

[franksolich]

For some reason I thought it would be higher, but the ones there do a good job stirring up the hive.

As I said, it's like the U.S. Marines; one needs only a few.

Now, our colleague Tucker here can probably illuminate about what happens when moles collide with each other, neither of them knowing the other's a mole.  (I can, but I'm bound by the omerta of Scamdy.)

Because moles come from so many directions, they aren't likely to recognize moles from places other than their own place.  And so some unusual and spectacular collisions occur.

[franksolich]

Five percent of circa 4,000 primitives is 200 moles; that seems eminently reasonable.

But alas, we'll never know.  I'm basing this guess on ten years of watching Skins's island, and what I've seen.