Pride Week in My Little Town, and Why I Won't be Going

[Zardnaar]

You've sidestepped the issue - again! You still haven't addressed your bizarre comment of, "You're still probably more likely to get punched out for not being gay." You're just rabbiting on about general social mores and standards in New Zealand. But you still - and this is the THIRD prompt - explained your bizarre comment, specifically.

What's hard about it. The penalty for doing it is likely to be worse, and there's just not that many of them. I could be completely wrong but would need to see some figures.

 

[red_elk]

You can get punched by people who advocate tolerance these days. If they consider you not tolerant enough by their standards

 

[Patine]

What's hard about it. The penalty for doing it is likely to be worse, and there's just not that many of them. I could be completely wrong but would need to see some figures.

You specifically said, "You're still probably more likely to get punched out for not being gay." But your responses completely ignore that specific claim and you're carrying on about only barely tangential issues that in no way, shape, or form address my calling out of your initial statement. But you pretend, each time, you've addressed the issue. Do you proof read your own posts at all, before pushing the "Post Reply" button?

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I think he probably meant "not for being gay" rather than "for not being gay". Or am I being too charitable?

 

[Kyriakos]

What I personally am always surprised by is how in a world like this, of so low an overall quality and so many ongoing issues, people can still pick up a flag and act as if one issue should take precedence for all.
Nothing changes that way - and, imo, nothing actually ever changes either, although for a few decades or perhaps even a couple of centuries you can sustain a narrative of "x happened then and after that we went to y", I fear that in the long-run those will stop having any meaning and the ellipse will be replaced by another with different focal points.

There is no cure for being human - well, perhaps immortalism will dehumanize those who have enough money to stick around

 

[Lexicus]

What I personally am always surprised by is how in a world like this, of so low an overall quality and so many ongoing issues, people can still pick up a flag and act as if one issue should take precedence for all.

Yeah, I mean, how much better to retain an air of ironic detachment from everything so that you never feel any investment in anything

 

[Kyriakos]

Yeah, I mean, how much better to retain an air of ironic detachment from everything so that you never feel any investment in anything

Check your non-schizoid privilege

 

[Yeekim]

 

[red_elk]

The irony is that LGBT community named their celebration events after something which is considered a deadly sin in Christianity.

 

[Patine]

The irony is that LGBT community named their celebration events after something which is considered a deadly sin in Christianity.

It's also ironic that the Evangelical movements in the U.S., and the "American Christian Heritage' groups, glorify, romanticize, and praise - and downright promote as virtues and noble and valorous ideals - four of those sins shamelessly - greed, pride, wrath, and gluttony.

 

[Broken_Erika]

It's also ironic that the Evangelical movements in the U.S., and the "American Christian Heritage' groups, glorify, romanticize, and praise - and downright promote as virtues and noble and valorous ideals - four of those sins shamelessly - greed, pride, wrath, and gluttony.

As the saying goes. "Do as i say. Not as i do!"

 

[Birdjaguar]

Does rape count?

I don't think rapists really care about the sexualities of their victims.

In NZ sheep don't have legal standing.....

 

[Patine]

In NZ sheep don't have legal standing.....

That was mean...

 

[Farm Boy]

Where the men are men, the women are women, and the sheep are nervous.

 

[zxcvbob]

Yeah, these days it's hard to not find a democrat not participating in a Gay pride event.

One negative too many?

Or one too few. (I know I'm over a week late)

 

[Broken_Erika]

Where the men are men, the women are women, and the sheep are nervous.

That's baaaaaad.

 

[Zardnaar]

That was mean...

Doesn't offend me except maybe from Australians. Even then it's more like a lack of originality showing off that fine world reknowned Aussie intellect.

If you can't laugh at yourself.....

Also in NZ we have this stuff called "water". You can bathe in it or even drink it.

 

[Farm Boy]

Hey, it takes some original thinking to come up with Velcro gloves.

 

[Zardnaar]

Hey, it takes some original thinking to come up with Velcro gloves.

Big sellers here for erm gardening purposes.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Zardnaar And Auckland is home to GGG.