Big Bill wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:36:09 GMT, Sparky > wrote:
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>>Big Bill wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:30:32 -0500, "Daniel J. Stern"
> wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, indago wrote:
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>>>>>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?

Some. I think you're confusing fiction with reality.

Are you saying adult white guys *aren't* running things across the USA?