Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Tolerance Is Not For Everybody
“What surprises me is how intolerant some people who preach tolerance can be.” It’s a 24-karat gold quote. The speaker is Pastor Thomas J. Crouse, and the occasion is an uprising from the homosexual activist community in Holland, which has bullied the Sturbridge Host Hotel into pulling the rug out from under Crouse’s annual “Mr. Heterosexual Contest.”
Not everybody is happy with the Straight Man’s contest.
Rob A. Okun, executive director of the Men’s Resource Center for Change in Amherst, had not heard of the event before being told about it yesterday, but said it “misses an opportunity to bring men together in a positive and celebratory way.”
“It’s unfortunate that in the guise of having a fun event … that a darker subtext exists … It is divisive, and at a time when more and more of the world is recognizing the legitimacy of gays and lesbians and transgendered people,” Okun said.
A darker subtext exists. The event misses opportunities. It is an opportunity-missing event. How scary.
Hey, I’ll tell you what’s scary. Scary is, that although the event could in theory be some ceremony with hate-group subtexts, there is no evidence whatsoever that would even suggest that it is one. Insofar as I can determine from what I’ve been able to find out, it simply is a celebration of being straight. And if Mr. Okun hasn’t heard of this before about Dec. 16th, I have to doubt that he knows much more.
Yet it has to be put down. Because it celebrates a certain sexual orientation. If it celebrated a different one, all would be good.
What interests me is, that this disparity is fueled by crude stereotypes about homosexuals. Think about it. Were there an agenda that would be consistent with such a thing, heterosexuals could piss around, they could mope, they could whine about how scared they were of Gay Pride parade, since the event might promulgate subtexts and the straight guys could get beaten up. This is the primer to the powder in the homosexual community’s musket; without the “darker subtexts,” they would have no complaint. The equivalent primer is denied to the heterosexual men, so they can’t protest equivalent pro-gay events — not because they choose not to (which, most of them would choose not to anyway) — but because they are denied equivalent ammunition on account of their sexual orientation. Few things are more amusing than some straight guy who’s afraid of a parade.
Once again, a fairly hostile strain of discrimination hides beneath a thin mask of equality and inclusion. Because of a contest that simply ran afoul of someone’s personal tastes. How tolerant.
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