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News & ArtsMonday, March 9, 2009
News Shocking
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:22 AM
My old college roommate and conservative pundit Rod Dreher finds the existence of small-town bisexuality more shocking than small-town triple-homicide. Via Sullivan.
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ignoring his ignorance, his grammar is atrocious. is it really that easy to be a professional "pundit?"
i should hold my tongue, I suppose. the last time i called a blogger out about his post, i got a lesson in dyslexia awareness. oog.
sincerely,
diggum
i should hold my tongue, I suppose. the last time i called a blogger out about his post, i got a lesson in dyslexia awareness. oog.
sincerely,
diggum
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Well, Rod*, if you tell the kids that gay is a choice long and often enough, they may believe you. And, with a bit of rational reasoning they arrive at the logical conclusion that if gay is a choice then straight must also be. Thus, if you accept that sexual orientation is actually sexual preference, we must all be bisexual.
Kids...they're just too fucking smart for their parent's misguided indoctrination.
*If you're wondering who Rod is (no, it's not his gay porn name), follow the link in Dan's post.
Kids...they're just too fucking smart for their parent's misguided indoctrination.
*If you're wondering who Rod is (no, it's not his gay porn name), follow the link in Dan's post.
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Rod Drehrer went to my college in the deep south as an undergrad- do you have a secret grad school past we don't know about?
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At this point, he has three separate updates explaining, each more pleading than the last, that he doesn't think bisexuality is *worse* than murder, just more *shocking*.
Aside from the "protesting too much" tone that the post has taken, I think it clearly demonstrates that Rod Dreher is surprised that small towns don't magically shelter people from the larger world in the age of broadband internet.
You know, Rod. Broadband internet. That thing you're using to communicate with your audience, in this instance?
Seriously, this guy is just pathetically clueless.
Aside from the "protesting too much" tone that the post has taken, I think it clearly demonstrates that Rod Dreher is surprised that small towns don't magically shelter people from the larger world in the age of broadband internet.
You know, Rod. Broadband internet. That thing you're using to communicate with your audience, in this instance?
Seriously, this guy is just pathetically clueless.
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Only a group of redneck hicks that don't know anything would find bisexuality "cool".
The best remedy to shatter that myth from their minds is to expose them to the lives that adults who choose to go down that path live. And then throw in a couple of pictures of the diseases they might get. It would be just like showing to kids how cool tobacco can be until you die from it.
The best remedy to shatter that myth from their minds is to expose them to the lives that adults who choose to go down that path live. And then throw in a couple of pictures of the diseases they might get. It would be just like showing to kids how cool tobacco can be until you die from it.
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let's see. maybe if he didn't bold the bisexuality part, and then tag it with "Bisexual, culture, teenager, Texas" instead of, i dunno, FUCKING MURDER, then his defense in the updates could be believed. what a fuckwad.
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@2, 4, 5,
I think Dan is joking about the roommate thing. He also joked that Ann Landers was his college roommate too.
I think Dan is joking about the roommate thing. He also joked that Ann Landers was his college roommate too.
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Loveschild, women only really get deadly sti's from heterosexual sex. I'm sick of your jesusgod punishing women for not choosing the lesbian lifestyle.
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Dan, we've begged you before-
don't be so clever with this crowd,
they're too fucking stupid to get most of the jokes and it clogs up the posts.
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Dan, we've begged you before-
don't be so clever with this crowd,
they're too fucking stupid to get most of the jokes and it clogs up the posts.
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I'm glad we are willing to take the word of a couple parents from small-town Texas who home schooled their kids at face value. Because they know what teen culture is really like.
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@13-"they're too fucking stupid to get most of the jokes and it clogs up the posts. "
Not getting a joke that either isn't funny or requires the listener to know the teller's theories of humor prior to the joke being told is not a sign of stupidity. Or are you just trying to get a No Dick Monday started up again?
Not getting a joke that either isn't funny or requires the listener to know the teller's theories of humor prior to the joke being told is not a sign of stupidity. Or are you just trying to get a No Dick Monday started up again?
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Personally, what I find shocking is that they considered moving from a town of 800 to a town of 1200 as "a much bigger school district" with "big-city values." Provincial much?
Religious isolationists make all kinds of bizarro excuses for keeping their kids cloistered. I rather doubt Mommy and Daddy Hick actually knew anything about bisexual anybody.
Religious isolationists make all kinds of bizarro excuses for keeping their kids cloistered. I rather doubt Mommy and Daddy Hick actually knew anything about bisexual anybody.
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Big city people always assume small towns are fucking Mayberry, SC. Guess what? The more bored kids are, the more adventures they get into. Small town kids are very, very bored.
I was once at an engineering competition (don't ask) in Rapid City, SD. We went out and cruised the miracle mile for a while, where the teens drive up and down and up and down to see and be seen. One of our guys, maybe 21, said "I'm going to head out" and climbed out of the car.
He showed up 10 hours later at the dorm where we were staying. A high school honey had picked him up and spent the night treating him right.
I had heard from my small town friends that that was how it was, but it wasn't until I saw it myself that I really got it.
I was once at an engineering competition (don't ask) in Rapid City, SD. We went out and cruised the miracle mile for a while, where the teens drive up and down and up and down to see and be seen. One of our guys, maybe 21, said "I'm going to head out" and climbed out of the car.
He showed up 10 hours later at the dorm where we were staying. A high school honey had picked him up and spent the night treating him right.
I had heard from my small town friends that that was how it was, but it wasn't until I saw it myself that I really got it.
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