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[SunsetBengal]

(04-27-2016, 08:48 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Sorry, Sunset, but when you make a post it is always something that supports your view.  Since you made no comment about how totally ridiculous and completely wrong this meme was it is clear that you thought it supported your opinion.

So, what's wrong with a picture of two guys holding hands, while using neighboring urinals?  As long as they are happy together, it's ok, right?  Young boys should not be alarmed that there is a man, dressed in women's clothing, peeing, while holding hands with another man.

[*Nately120*]

(04-28-2016, 12:06 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: So, what's wrong with a picture of two guys holding hands, while using neighboring urinals?  As long as they are happy together, it's ok, right?  Young boys should not be alarmed that there is a man, dressed in women's clothing, peeing, while holding hands with another man.

I realize you are joking, but you'd be amazed at what kids don't give a damn about until they are told to notice it and find it "wrong."

[SunsetBengal]

(04-28-2016, 12:15 AM)Nately120 Wrote: I realize you are joking, but you'd be amazed at what kids don't give a damn about until they are told to notice it and find it "wrong."

Son:  Dad, I googled two guys holding hands while peeing.  It said "gay".  Should I be that, or do what you and Mom did to create me?

Dad:  I don't know, son.  That decision is up to you..

[GMDino]

(04-27-2016, 11:35 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Too bad that's not the argument.

The argument is that MANY people, for however trivial the reason, should not be made uncomfortable because a few transgenders are uncomfortable about where to use the bathroom, for however mental the reason.

The argument is "you shouldn't be uncomfortable"....why not try telling that to the comparative handful of transgenders?  If it WASN"T about the equipment you were sporting then all bathrooms would have been unisex long ago regardless of what transgenders felt.

And were "comfortable" with it because most people don't look around to try and judge if everyone in the bathroom looks masculine or feminine enough to be there.  And because it *is* a trivial reason to suggest that just because someone has different parts in the next stall you would be uncomfortable when you probably wouldn't even notice it...because you are in a stall.

Dear Jebus we are so hung up on sexual organs in this country is a laughable shame.

Or, to repeat myself:

[Belsnickel]

(04-27-2016, 02:28 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I'll admit I was unaware of the device that allowed women to use a mans urinal that way.

Sometimes I feel as though I have learned more than I ever wanted to. But being a part of the ally network on campus has taught me many things.

[fredtoast]

(04-28-2016, 12:25 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Son:  Dad, I googled two guys holding hands while peeing.  It said "gay".  Should I be that, or do what you and Mom did to create me?

Dad:  I don't know, son.  That decision is up to you..

So the only reason you like women is because your dad told you to?

It is starting to become very clear to me why you are so defensive about all these sexual identity issues.

[GMDino]

(04-28-2016, 08:59 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Sometimes I feel as though I have learned more than I ever wanted to. But being a part of the ally network on campus has taught me many things.

That's happens a lot where my wife will see something or hear about something I explain it to her and eh'll ask how *I* know about it.

My response:  "I read a lot."  

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[*Nately120*]

(04-28-2016, 12:25 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Son:  Dad, I googled two guys holding hands while peeing.  It said "gay".  Should I be that, or do what you and Mom did to create me?

Dad:  I don't know, son.  That decision is up to you..

Oh my god, are you actually saying parents may actually have to discuss things with their kids?!  EGADS!!!

Look, I'm 34 now and when I was a kid I didn't think anything of being left-handed or seeing black people use the same facilities as white people BUT I later found out that apparently those things were like totally BAD at one point in our history.  Go figure.

There is always going to be something a minority of our society rails against for their own agenda under the guise of protecting women and children.  Left-handedness, desegregation, interracial marriage, homosexuality, transgendered rights, etc.  You'd be amazed at how big an issue these things were but we now no longer even consider them (well, most of us...I have a few friends who were forced to be right-handed and I know at least one old lady who gives a tsk tsk when she sees a white woman with a black man).

Basically, if your kid asks you why people use their left hand, are allowed to use the same water fountain, marry people of a different race, marry people of the sam sex, use the restroom of the "opposite sex" and so on YOU have the freedom to tell him/her whatever you like.  That's the fun of being free.  You can tell your kid what he sees is a damn tragedy and an abomination and I can tell my kids it's A-OK!  Or, said kids may never even find such things nearly as crazy as we do.  Let's face it, we always hear that sort of "Oh, my dad isn't racist so much as he's just from a different time!" defense pretty often.  Our society keeps marching down a more socially liberal path and if you just stay put with your age group you start to look out of touch and from a "different time."

But why make laws to prevent you from having to answer questions you find awkward?  You're free to tell your kids how wrong any sort of social progress in the past century is.  Neat huh?

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[SunsetBengal]

(04-28-2016, 12:14 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Oh my god, are you actually saying parents may actually have to discuss things with their kids?!  EGADS!!!

Look, I'm 34 now and when I was a kid I didn't think anything of being left-handed or seeing black people use the same facilities as white people BUT I later found out that apparently those things were like totally BAD at one point in our history.  Go figure.

There is always going to be something a minority of our society rails against for their own agenda under the guise of protecting women and children.  Left-handedness, desegregation, interracial marriage, homosexuality, transgendered rights, etc.  You'd be amazed at how big an issue these things were but we now no longer even consider them (well, most of us...I have a few friends who were forced to be right-handed and I know at least one old lady who gives a tsk tsk when she sees a white woman with a black man).

Basically, if your kid asks you why people use their left hand, are allowed to use the same water fountain, marry people of a different race, marry people of the sam sex, use the restroom of the "opposite sex" and so on YOU have the freedom to tell him/her whatever you like.  That's the fun of being free.  You can tell your kid what he sees is a damn tragedy and an abomination and I can tell my kids it's A-OK!  Or, said kids may never even find such things nearly as crazy as we do.  Let's face it, we always hear that sort of "Oh, my dad isn't racist so much as he's just from a different time!" defense pretty often.  Our society keeps marching down a more socially liberal path and if you just stay put with your age group you start to look out of touch and from a "different time."

But why make laws to prevent you from having to answer questions you find awkward?  You're free to tell your kids how wrong any sort of social progress in the past century is.  Neat huh?

Oddly enough, I'm 47, and I can remember them trying to get me to use my right hand, in elementary school.  I remember it well, because my father is Left-handed, as well.  He went and raised holy hell with the school.


We are, the 12%.
The few,
The multi-talented.
The Left-handed nation..

[*Nately120*]

(04-28-2016, 06:47 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Oddly enough, I'm 47, and I can remember them trying to get me to use my right hand, in elementary school.  I remember it well, because my father is Left-handed, as well.  He went and raised holy hell with the school.


We are, the 12%.
The few,
The multi-talented.
The Left-handed nation..

I'm left-handed and I recall my grandfather who is left-handed telling me he wasn't allowed to be left-handed when he was a kid.  I honestly wondered how people could be so ridiculous in his time.  Two college pals of mine who are about my age (I'm 34 so they are both 33 I'd wager) were both converted when they were growing up so even today (er...30 years ago) it's not as rare a belief as logic would dictate.

It just seems like every generation has its own ridiculous stigma to overcome, which is then replaced by a new one and leaves the younger people to ask "What the hell was wrong with you if you thought THAT was ruining the country?!"

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