On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:36:09 GMT, Sparky > wrote:

>Big Bill wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:30:32 -0500, "Daniel J. Stern"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, indago wrote:
>>>
>>>>041108 2142 - Wound Up posted:
>>>
>>>>>Homosexuality does not serve as an acceptable excuse for being the
>>>>>target of hatred
>>>
>>>>Well, then, maybe derision???
>>>
>>>"Maybe"...? Y'think?
>>>
>>>Turn on your TV set during primetime any night of the week. Scarcely a
>>>sitcom episode goes by without they don't make clunky, hamhanded innuendo
>>>or outright laughtrack-enhanced punchlines at the expense of
>>>cardigan-wearing, mincing, oh-so-coiffed fag-stereotypes, and entire
>>>series are built on same, e.g. "Will and Grace" or "Queer Eye for the
>>>Straight Guy" or "Queer as Folk".
>>>
>>>One doesn't have to work very hard to imagine how black people felt when
>>>they saw such as "What's Happenin?" on television. Hollywood, for their
>>>part, is glibly contrite for years of making money off black stereotypes,
>>>but they evidently have zero problem doing the selfsame thing with gays
>>>right now, today.
>>>
>>>Gandhi said of social change: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule
>>>and denounce you, then they debate you, then you win."
>>>
>>>-DS
>>
>> There's a group that come in for much more derision than homosexuals
>> on TV - the white male.
>> All you need to do to see this is to watch sitcoms and advertisements.
>> The poor bumbling white guy is the butt of so many jokes it's obvious
>> to anyone who watches.
>> But it's OK, because, after all, they are just, well, there.
>
>Feeling sorry for yourself, BB?
>
>Adult white guys still seem to be running things across the USA.

So you don't think what I say is right?
Have you watched TV lately?

Bill Funk
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