A vain attempt to remain zen...

[aquabean]

I...Oh my fucking -- What the hell is wrong with these people?

Please go and read this BBC article. Once you've come back, we can discuss this like normal adults. But first I'm going yell a lot.

"We see the video as an insidious means by which the organisation is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids."

They can't be serious! 'Cause all anyone wants in the world is to BRAINWASH kids into being gay. Because genetics and other non-cultural issues have nothing to do with it at all. Because all of us gay folk were "turned gay" because we watched too many tv shows with people holding hands, and it turned us into sick perverts. God. This would be funny if I weren't so pissed off.

You know what though? They're right. So when I have kids -- but only in a red state and only with a man who keeps me at home and refuses to let me have my own bank account since, "women spend all their money on clothes and tryin' to get a richer man."-- I'll never let them watch a show like Sponge Bob. No I'll make them watch short films in which fat kids are made fun of and racial slurs are the how spelling is taught.

"N-n-i...g-g-e-r" "NI" "GGER" "NIGGER!"

Oh, it warms the cockles of my heart just thinking about it. The best part will be, though, when the effeminate little boy with the big pretty eyes and the tendency to pay a little too much attention to Johnny from next door is beaten up and then told that it's his own fault because little boys who like other little boys go straight to burn in hell. Man, I can't wait to raise the next generation of youngsters on such heartwarming family values.

None of this holding hands with your same sex friends for my kids. That kind of thing just makes them soft. And gay. Remember that, physical affection and caring for anyone of your same sex means you're gay or that you're turning gay. So, watch out.


[Edit: And then this article made me feel a bit better. Go Italy.]

Comments

[snowyheart.livejournal.com]

*facePALM*

If it helps, I live in Red State Land y'know, and I've heard people say some pretty stupid things, but nothing remotely close to this. :\ But it makes me sad to know that crazy like this does in fact exist.

*Weeps for the homeland. Arms self with Sword of Reason to divide Crazy from Non-Crazy. Lets Crazy go live in Anarctica. HAVE FUN GUYS*

...Seriously though, WTF. It's just a preference, fer fuck's sake. That's like being afraid that something's gonna brainwash the kids into liking chocolate ice cream better than vanilla. NOES!! We can't like anybody like anything!!

*slinks away to fume*

[snowyheart.livejournal.com]

That said though, I am feeling a bit crooked at how BBC has written the article. Phrases like "US Right Attacks..." and "conservatives say..." make me an unhappy Snowy. I hate when people try to paint a whole group with the same motivations and feelings and gah. uncool. *crankyface*

/end mini-rant, very sorry

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

... Spongebob isn't gay?

[nightfallrising.livejournal.com]

...SpongeBob is a man?

sponges are asexual, man! Asexual!

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

*bows to one-up*

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Loved the last quote of the article, though:

WAFF spokesman Mark Barondeso told the newspaper that anyone who thought the video promoted homosexuality "needs to visit their doctor and get their medication increased".

Hit the nail on the head, my friend.

There was another similar article I read, once, where the reporter was listing all the things that might happen if 'gay' was considered acceptable. I was about three quarters through before I realised it was a negative article! As far as I was concerned everything she listed was a good thing.

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

I'm going to focus on the last paragraph of that article, though, because it returns at least a little bit of sanity.

WAFF spokesman Mark Barondeso told the newspaper that anyone who thought the video promoted homosexuality "needs to visit their doctor and get their medication increased".

But. GAH. I am constantly astonished by the amount of fear that runs rampant about this kind of thing. I mean, honestly, people, spend this indignation working to get better water supplies to tsunami victims, please!

[singmebackhome.livejournal.com]

I hope more stuff like this happens because:

1. No one takes this crap seriously. There isn't a single soccor mom in the US who is going to hear about this, have an epiphany and rip down her kid's Spongebob poster.
2. It just makes them look increasingly stupid. Yeah dudes, Tinky Winky and Spongebob are homos. Riiiiight. It makes these people look like more of a joke and discredits them.

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

/sympathy

I really...really...REALLY am sick of this kind of shlock.

I remember the Tinky-Winky thing like it was yesterday. That was back when (begin private life insertion) I was first getting OK with being gay myself, and it screwed with my head something bad...I mean, really, I am 100% certain that the RIGHT did more damage to me by making Tinky Winky an issue than Tinky Winky did to me by his own purple merit.(/end personal life, sorry)

and then you sit there and think, WAIT A SEC...

it's purple. And humanoid. And made of POLYESTER.

::headdesk::

Same theory here.

God...we need women in there. We need US in there...but the problem is, where will we find enough liberal wo/men willing to sacrifice their lives/IQs/sanity to government? The ones who are qualified stay far far away *because* they're smart enough to be qualified...and know better.

Meanwhile, the idjits--and I mean this across the boards, not just the right--who do get in, can't practically handle anything, and as the second article you linked said, where's the concern over the tsunami? Oh, nevermind THAT, Spongebob, genderless, groinless thing that he is, held hands with an oversized starfish!!! Heresy!!

::headdesk::

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

ok, i'm really sorry that this is offtopic...and i *did* give you a yummy comment ontopic so i'm justified...

you went to Kenyon?? ::glomp:: I adore that school. My uncle is head chef!! and i would have attended there too, save for $$ issues. >.<

anyways....YAY KENYON

and you think four years is bad? Try living your *life* in Ohio. Urk....XP

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

Kenyon was/is brilliant. Am so glad I went. Woot useless theatre degree *grins*.

Where are you in Ohio? Gambier was great, but I really liked Mt. Vernon too. The small town feel is something I miss now, ya know? *grins* Okay, I only really miss it when I'm sitting in traffic, but still!

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

I'm from Akron, family in Akron and Ellet and Mt Vernon and Columbus and Medina and...yeah.

Akron. ^.^;;

However, I'm currently in PA, at Carlow. Which is like a little mini-Kenyon (not as cool but close), in its own little island, isolated in the center of Pittsburgh. Best of both worlds. ::smug::

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

Dude, Pittsburgh is awesome! I was actually just there over thanksgiving. For all that it's a big city it's still got enough trees to make me happy. That would be the one problem with SoCal, not enough trees. Makes me want to move back you far away states. Heh.