Notable Letters to the Editor

[Triewd]

Personally I think it was a good letter

 

[Hygro]

Squarely namby pamby to be upset you aren't being personally celebrated for being average.

 

[Triewd]

Squarely namby pamby to be upset you aren't being personally celebrated for being average.

Id say you have the the wrong way round personally namby pamby means

1 without firm methods or policy; weak or indecisive:
namby-pamby handling of juvenile offenders.
2.
lacking in character, directness, or moral or emotional strength:
namby-pamby writing.
3.
weakly sentimental, pretentious, or affected; insipid.


That defines the homosexual movement. number 2 especially describes politically correct people.

 

[Hygro]

She wants attention and praise for being typical, crying out for it publicly.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

That woman would have a point if heterosexuality had a history of persecution and heterosexuals had faced harassment and violence for their heterosexuality.
She probably also thinks that as a Christian she is part of a persecuted minority and that there should be a white history month.

 

[Hygro]

I used to get upset that others were receiving attention instead of me.

Then I turned 6.

 

[Triewd]

That woman would have a point if heterosexuality had a history of persecution and heterosexuals had faced harassment and violence for their heterosexuality.
She probably also thinks that as a Christian she is part of a persecuted minority and that there should be a white history month.

I think thats a little unfair the problem is being praised for innate characteristics and things which frankly are private business its one thing to have sexuality, another to be waving it in peoples faces.

 

[Hygro]

I think thats a little unfair the problem is being praised for innate characteristics and things which frankly are private business its one thing to have sexuality, another to be waving it in peoples faces.

You make two claims in this post.

1) People are being praised for innate characteristics

2) People with these characteristics are "waving it in other peoples' faces"


The praise is for people willing to risk themselves publicly to not hide who they are.

The "waving it in peoples faces" is done by the persecuting side. If there was no persecution, there would be no discussion.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

If innate characteristics like sexuality can cause you to be denied the same rights as the rest of society and in sometimes can even get you beaten to death, they are clearly not just a private matter. Just being gay is not a sign of courage, being openly gay still is in many places.

 

[Goodfella]

From the Laramie, Wyoming Boomerang
-=Linky=-

(Brad Pitt is now touting the fact that he is bisexual)

I don't think this has been confirmed in any meaningful way. It's just tabloid gossip so far.

 

[Hygro]

I don't think this has been confirmed in any meaningful way. It's just tabloid gossip so far.

Which fits the psychology of the rest of the letter. She's bought into the "every kid deserves a trophy" except she didn't even show up, and she's not a kid.

 

[Narz]

I think Quackers' main concern is that Muslim men are getting all the girls and soon there will be an unfortunate demographic shift.

Oh yeah, the ladies go wild for all the repression & genital mutilation! :swoon:

 

[Goodfella]

Which fits the psychology of the rest of the letter. She's bought into the "every kid deserves a trophy" except she didn't even show up, and she's not a kid.

In addition to her belief that being LGBT is just a liberal fashion statement.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I think thats a little unfair the problem is being praised for innate characteristics and things which frankly are private business its one thing to have sexuality, another to be waving it in peoples faces.

Take this woman and her religious views, for instance. What she wants to believe in the privacy of her own home is fine. But it is hardly a valid secular and rational reason to continue to hate, vilify, discriminate against, and oppress others due to their own sexual preferences.

If she could only find a few heterosexual role models in Laramie, Wyoming...

 

[Paul in Saudi]

I am (easily) amused by the name of the Laramie newspaper, the Boomerang.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I caught that as well.

“ … Bill Nye founded the Boomerang in Laramie City in 1881. He edited the newspaper for a company and published it in the loft over a livery stable. ‘That’s why they called it a stock company,’ he said. “A sign at the foot of the stairs leading to the loft directed visitors to the newspaper by saying, ‘Twist the gray mule’s tail and take the elevator.’ “Nye named the paper the Boomerang; a name also held by his mule, because, Nye said, ‘I never know where he is going to strike.’

Bill Nye and Clara Frances Smith were married March 7, 1887, in Laramie. Mrs. Nye remembered the entrance of another unexpected member of the family. “This funny little creature appeared on the streets of Laramie from no one knows where,” she wrote in later years. “It ambled up to Edgar and, rubbing its nose against his sleeve, brayed earnestly in his ear. From that time on, the arrival was known as Bill Nye’s mule, Boomerang.” Initial efforts to drive the creature off were unsuccessful, thus resulting in the name. The animal was a companion whenever Bill went fishing or to work his claim west of town. Nye wrote about their close relationship in one of his books. When local Republicans decided they needed a new political organ in Laramie, they backed the establishment of a newspaper and hired Nye to head the outfit. Nye accepted, named the sheet after his beloved mule and moved the shop into the upstairs room of a livery stable at Third and Garfield. He was given $3,000 by his backers to set up the paper and spent $1,800 of it on a “lemon squeezer” hand press and materials, and the rest for operating costs.

 

[Rashiminos]

Is it just me? Just once, I’d like to see someone famous to step up to the plate and proclaim they are proud of being heterosexual.

She must have an impressive blindfold collection. I wonder if she'd settle for someone infamous...