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Biz ([info]bizzle) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-08-13 07:49:00


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But what are your thoughts on homosex?
Sci-fi writer John C. Wright does not approve of the Sci-Fi channel's apparent pandering to the "homosex" crowd.

The head of Sci-Fi channel has contritely promised to include more homosex in future shows, and to do it nonchalantly, just as if this abomination is normal and natural and worthy of no comment. The shows will not actually come out and say sexual perversion has no bad side effects. They won't actually lie and tell you homosex won't destroy your life. But they will imply the lie. They will play along.

Homosex. It's almost kind of catchy!

I'd like someone, anyone, to explain to me how my culture reached a position where a public entertainment company can be criticized for failing to contribute to the moral decay of the land, and that the criticism would be taken seriously, and the company would cringe and promise to do better.

Someone explain to me by what series of events persons with serious sexual-psychological malfunctions would somehow be awarded the status of moral arbiters, something like priests and confessors and sages -- except that the passkey to being a guardian of public conscience in our age is the absence of moral value, not the presence.


Explain they do. As soon as the post is referenced in a MetaQuote, the dissenters are off to reply to Mr. Wright. The initial reaction is small, but promising. Most responses are rational and non-inflammatory. Others are quite succinct and curt. A number of users coming in presumably through MetaQuotes announce Mr. Wright's loss of a potential customer, as long as Mr. Wright does indeed use their filthy, filthy Leftist dollars.

Come, my liberal leftist comrades! You openly boast of your superior intellectual power and more profound moral sobriety than we mere working Joes of flyover country (including working Joes like me with a doctorate in law who works in DC). You have anointed yourselves our superiors: that means you are smart enough to explain it. By what logic is the sole and single standard of virtue in your world view an absolute devotion to vice? By what logic is the sole and single sin the sin of having standards of virtue, what you call being intolerant?

'dem sure be fancy words.


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[info]tachikoma01
2009-08-13 04:13 pm UTC (link)
He lost a client from me not because he's a homophobe, but because reading those last few sentences gave me a headache. I could NOT get through an entire book (or even short story) written that way.

Yay more "You're intolerant of my intolerance!" wank? Ah, to long for the days when one could ONLY include gays or lesbians in their work if they met horrible ends so that the moral lesson could be passed that being gay gives you a case of TEH DED, or sometimes teh cray-z. If you were lucky.

Also, DC is not in flyover country. Move to Minneapolis/St Paul and THEN you can whine about living in flyover country.

[Is tired of waving at travel magazines with a flag that says 'Hey, we're down here! The country does not just disappear between Las Vegas and Chicago. We have a higher number of theater seats per capita than New York. Why are you pretending you can't see us?']

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[info]xturtle
2009-08-13 10:42 pm UTC (link)
Word on the MSP issues. I lived in NYC for a year and only about half the people I met even knew of Minnesota. Mythical land, we are.

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[info]photosinensis
2009-08-13 11:09 pm UTC (link)
At least they know about Texas, even if what little they know makes them hate us (to be fair, it's only about 60% accurate).

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[info]kijikun
2009-08-14 06:51 am UTC (link)
You mean I'm not wearing cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, riding a horse and saying y'all every other word?

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[info]queencallipygos
2009-08-14 12:31 pm UTC (link)
Hey, I've written about some places in flyover country in my own travel writing....


....ohmygaw, in fact, you've just reminded me about one new place I can also write about for that contest coming up and it would be awesome whoashit be right back. (runs off)

(In all seriousness -- thank you, you actually did remind me of a place I can write about; albeit in Arizona, but still.)

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