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