I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
Location: US/Canada
Registered: September 2009
Messages: 733
Cossie, RichardG, Acam, and the 'Brit' contingent arsed at my presence here. I DO NOT HAVE A PERSONAL AGENDA, There? Loud enough for you? Here's an example of the war being waged which by the way was one of the reasons that Stonewall UK produced the Anti-bullying film, FIT, that I PROMOTED HERE AS PART OF MY PERSONAL AGENDA.
I'll also note that safety is relative to being well informed versus playing mushroom and as far as I am concerned, I bring things to the table HERE that can be discussed. I DO NOT necessarily engage in the threads I start as I feel that AS AN OPENLY GAY activist there's no need for me to do so. [ Other than to bring the information here so that folks who MAY NOT necessarily see it elsewhere can be provided a SERVICE. ]
Back to bullying, there is a concerted effort to minimise and disregard LGBT children who are at risk in the U. S. and elsewhere speared headed by an aggressive campaign by the Uber-Christian factions.
Location: Canada
Registered: December 2003
Messages: 869
therefore ask you Brody, please, enough with the high moral tone.
We get it.
I certainly DO GET IT, living as I do cheek-by-jowl and shoulder-to-shoulder with it each and every waking moment of my day; each and every time I turn on a radio, or television or open a newspaper or newsmagazine.
Canada, and Canadians are not removed, insular if you will, from the carryings-on (immoral or improper or not) to the south of our border. How could we be. We eat, breathe, drink, walk, sleep, defecate the "American Dream" in all its' richness, and in all of its' misery.
Our "Public Housing" is no longer that, they are "Projects" although I vehemently did take exception to this, asking Moses Zaimner "Why this was, and whether either he or any of his feature reporters or news staff had ever actually visited a Project in Farmer's Branch located just outside of Dallas, or New Orleans, or adjacent to South Saint Andrews Place in downtown Los Angles, or Chicago, or New York, or Miami, or Demming?" as I had, this in my objection to his Television Station's then increasing use (this being in the early 1990's) of that term in each and every news feature about "Public Housing". The aforementioned is simply to illustrate but one insidious, creeping, example of American cultural bias that has begun to pervade Canadian society. I pointed out to him, through the continued slamming of our Public Housing and the use the word Project to describe them, he in doing so would forever and a day tie them to the misery experienced on a scale not seen elsewhere outside of the United States, as evidenced through just about each and every American Television show of memory, that he would be helping to create, and foster, an atmosphere which would become its' own self-fulfilling prophesy.
We live it through the clothes we wear, the vehicles we drive, the discretionary purchases we make (or are influenced to make), through the music we hear, the vidéo we see, through the news dissembled by our media, through American dominance over our Political process. That we have been able to maintain some semblance of our own unique National Identity, separate and apart from that of our brethren south of the 49th parallel is a miracle.
Bullying is a travesty in any sane person's eyes; regardless of "The Who" of either the perpetrator or the victim of the bullying. Period.
LGBTQ inequality, equally is a travesty; just as surely as is discrimination and exclusion of anyone because of their age, race or creed, colour, religion, politics, gender or orientation identification, financial where-with-all or health. Period. Inequality is inequality, regardless of its' odour or flavour, or the shroud we package it in.
I understand your impatience, and that of so many of your fellow journalists in America today. IT IS TAKING TOO LONG; far too long, and there seem to be just as many set-backs as there appear to be victories. Unfortunately, that is endemic to the American Way; always has been and so it seems, it will continue to be.
I hate the hypocrisy; that the Morman's could become the key supporter in championing the repeal of newly won LGBTQ rights, whose Church which until the late 1930's was rife with homosexual conduct, a practice discontinued simply for their Church to receive, and have their protected status as a religion sanctified by U.S. Congress, and therein was forced to abandon their policies respecting polygamy; that the Jimmy Swaggart's and their ilk, can on one hand preach all manner of love and redemption, but on the other can't apparently keep their private bits in their pants, and when caught out decry all manner of foul, and plead and beg for forgiveness just to keep those 1-800 dollars rolling in; or the politicians and their sexual misconducts, and their endless mea culpability's; or the industrial excesses which contribute daily to diminishing global health and well being. I could go on and on and on; but, to what purpose? To show that I understand the American Dream is just that, a dream. That American has it's faults? That American is not the panacea for all the Worlds problems? Why, and how, could I ever possibly thing that?
I read, with interest, each and every thread you create here. I follow a goodly number of them to your own blog (and on again through links you provide therein) for further study. Occasionally I will comment if I feel I have something pertinent to add; and just as often as not you apparently don't feel that I do; but, that too is the way of the World, and we both are entitled to our opinions, or at the very least I hope that continues to be so. We agree to disagree. We don't need to be abrasive, or aggressive or rude or abusive with one another; and largely this remains so.
I share your anger with regard to many of the subjects you have featured (and I hope your will continue to feature) here. Can you not find another way to introduce these topics you feel so strongly about, and which should be of interest to all of us here? Must you always be so confrontational?
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800
Warren C. E. Austin wrote:
> I share your anger with regard to many of the subjects you have featured (and I hope your will continue to feature) here. Can you not find another way to introduce these topics you feel so strongly about, and which should be of interest to all of us here? Must you always be so confrontational?
Apart from agreeing with you, Warren, I also agree with the way you ask for a different mode of introduction. Acerbic is fine, but aggressive is not. And I see you ask for less aggression.
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