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A Three-Letter Word from LGBTQ
The title of this OP was a clue in my morning crossword puzzle. It made me angry. I can’t even escape the leftist propaganda with my morning coffee, Crunch cereal with almond milk, raisins, and bananas. I have to be reminded that this term (which now has many more letters nowadays) has become part of our everyday lexicon.
My reaction is not just about the term LGBTQ; it’s about everyone trying to normalize those lifestyles which once were considered out of the norm. Don’t get me wrong: I love the diversity of my crossword puzzle — What’s a port in Yemen? Name a Wall Street index? What’s a desert plant used to make tequila? Who was the screenwriter, James, who wrote “The African Queen”? (Tuesday’s puzzles are pretty easy.)
I get enough politically correct nonsense from everywhere else. Please leave my crossword puzzle alone.
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Well, “Dre” is just short Andre. The female version is “Drea.”
I agree about rapper names. There’s no way I’d get a clue like that.
This is what drives me insane! Homosexuals are routinely executed in the Middle East and activists have the nerve to lecture us about tolerance! I should rephrase that: Homosexuality is a crime punishable by death in most of the Middle East; activists lecture us because they don’t have the nerve to direct their ire where it belongs.
It depends on what letters are in any overlapping squares.
Also, do we really need to go there?
Susan,
Stop eating bananas for breakfast. It only encourages them.
The views and behaviors of others toward these abnormal elements of society is what needs to be normalized so that it is always civilized and not savage.
“Gay people’ could correctly go in quotes when referencing the views and actions of Islamic culture toward such people because that culture has not delved into the many variations and descriptions that provide the wide-ranging diversity of these abnormalities as has Western culture. In Islam they are all condemned and described by a single term.
But your thesis was that the concentrations are much higher on “the coasts”, whereas the gallup poll indicates the spread is much more uniform.
Furthermore, if the percentage in San Francisco is only 6% (and don’t tell me anyone is refusing to “self-identify” in San Francisco for fear of discrimination or ostracization), then the real population is much lower than portrayed in media.
The need to finish a puzzle with missing clues can spur an interaction with, the horror, another human outside your generation.
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That’s a pretty low bar to set for a gold star. Just saying.
Also – apparently you care about your reputation for tolerance – which speaks well of you. Saudi doesn’t care. Might as well lecture a chair on the virtues of abstinence.
I consider myself “gay”. However, in a different way than you used the term. Hence, the quotes.
No, my thesis isn’t about numbers per se, it is about the perception of numbers. I pointed out that two gay people in a neighborbood of about 300 now turned the neighborhood into a gayberhood, to those who lived there. Perhaps people like the novelty or something, I don’t know. But this is why I think many people think the percentage is much higher.
Gays are part of the norm.
A society with no gays would be abnormal.
Being part of the norm (which im using as a completely value neutral descriptor) doesn’t mean being the same as everybody else. As a species we come in Bell Curves (or Kinsey Scales), not binaries.
Dear @fredcole : I am perfectly aware what the prefix “pan” means. Do you have any idea what the term “wordplay” means? Or shall I send you a link?
Many people think the percentage is much higher because Leftist mass media deliberately created that impression.
Reread the first sentence of your original comment: “The reason why it seems everything is gay is because the vast majority live in coastal cities where much of the folks that create our media, movies, TV, etc…. live.”
But according to the gallup survey, the vast majority aren’t concentrated in a few coastal cities – they’re actually spread with remarkable uniformity across metro areas through the country.
Wishful thinking? Let’s face it, we’re good for property values.
Do you suppose the throwers are all that concerned with rules of evidence and such Western fripperies?
Fred, right here you are carrying water for the Leftists who want to destroy traditional values, morals and traditional gender roles.
You are parroting the Leftist meme that executions for homosexuality were commonplace, which is not true. The actual number of executions for homosexuality is probably between 100 and 200 persons in the entire history of western civilization. Of course, you only had to kill about one per century per country to keep the homosexuals deep in their closets, but the fact remains that only the most flamboyant or insulting were executed.
You already went to Wikipedia as a source, which, since they are solidly Leftist, we should use for this purpose. They list all known executions from 1292 AD through 1835 AD, and they only list 15 persons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_for_homosexuality
Being an out homosexual was not safe. Getting killed for it required very special circumstances. Making out like it was common is the sort of unhistorical exaggeration that I find to be similar to finding LBGTQQ answers buried in the crossword puzzle.
The “burned at the stake” meme is especially noxious. Burned alive was not a common method for those executions; it was extraordinarily rare. That came from a false tale of the etymology of the word “faggot.” It has been de-bunked. It is more associated with artistic depictions of homosexuals burning in hell than with actual faggots used to burn actual homosexuals. For a lame but interesting discussion on that aspect of that offensive word, see the talk page at Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFaggot
Ok, you’re right. The premise of my thesis changed. However, I would like to see the percentage of gays in media and entertainment to the rest of the population. That creates the perception problem.
Here’s one I hadn’t come across before: Headline, ” ‘Roseanne’ casting gender creative child.”
Thank you, Bob. My point exactly.
It makes lots of sense. Amazing what a good propaganda machine will do!
Sheesh.
Good grief. Thanks for this, Kozak. ;-)
Isn’t that age discrimination?? I must say that even though I’m Jewish and know some Yiddish, they throw me off with those answers. Like kvetch or shlepp.
Or end up in gaol.
Same issue with women’s rights, AIAC. Who cares if they do genital mutilation in Africa?
Oh, well blame me for that . . . wait . . . encourages whom?
Except I’m the youngest one in our household! Then what?
Yes, Zafar, they are part of the norm. But a tiny part of the norm. And promoted and talked about far beyond their numbers–just for being gay. No one celebrates my being a woman–well, except maybe my husband . . .