Sparky wrote:
> Big Bill wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
> Some. I think you're confusing fiction with reality.
>
> Are you saying adult white guys *aren't* running things across the USA?

You know, I love men. i love one man in particular (no, not you Matt!!!
i know it breaks your heart!!!)... and i have no scientific proof -; ,
but l think you misspelled a word.. instead of "running" you should have
said "ruining"....

lw