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Remember that nem jug is a police officer of some sort. He's experienced with these sort of things. He knows how to press our buttons and make it appear that we are at fault. He has done a very good job at hiding his insults in a form of opinion.
Oh, we're definitely on the same page about that. I haven't been on here all that much lately - it rained all weekend long and I've had nothing else to do these past few days - and it's been months since I've noticed that stupid online at the same time as me (I always check to see who's on). I don't for one minute think it was just coincidence that, for the first time in months when we were both on at the same time, he at that moment made his comparison of gay sex to rape and then started moralizing at Percy. He knew exactly what he was doing. I took up the moralizing first, intending to get to the rape comparison later (didn't want to deal with it at that instant; blood boiling, needed a decicious, refreshing Borden's Dutch Chocolate Milk), but as it happened I only got round to the rape thing indirectly.
Did you notice how quickly he whipped out that admin shit on me? Obviously wanted to be sure I knew, and I guess he got me cuz until that moment I didn't. That's when I checked and figured out he'd been made admin at about the same time he made his comparison of gays to animals in one of the Haggard threads. Kinda shook me a bit, you might say.
I appreciate Ringo's simile of comparing African-Americans to baboons or apes. If someone made such a comparison here it wouldn't be allowed to stand for one minute before the poster would be possibly banned, definitely suspended and certainly not made admin. But because
most straight guys, even the liberal ones, haven't given gay issues much thought they simply can't understand why I feel so deeply offended by it all. The fact that you do understand leads me to believe there's a gay person in your life whom you care very much about. Whoever it is, they're very lucky to have a brother or friend like you.
I've reached a point in my life where I just can't deal with this type of insulting shit anymore. Time was I had to put up with it everywhere. But over the years, I've put most all of the bigots like him out of my life in one way or another. The hardest was my dad. That still hurts. I talk to him once in a very long while, but it's only small talk. I never tell him much about my life because I really don't want him to know anything. We're not close anymore, so what's the point?
For another thing, I don't have to put up with crap like this at work these days. Back in the mid 90s I got fired from a lucrative job when the boss, a goddamned southern fucking baptist, fired me after finding out about me. I decided then that I didn't have the option to keep it a secret from anyone anymore, because I wanted to be certain that
that would never happen again. And it hasn't. Today, if someone says something even approaching what the admin/stupid said, I'll fire him or her on the spot (I've had to do it once). There's only one guy over me and he's as liberal as I am, if not more so. And since - thanks largely to those same southern baptists - Mississippi is a right-to-work state, they can't do shit about it.
So things have changed. I'm not as accustomed as I once was to being insulted, so maybe that's the whole problem. I tell ya what, though: I'll take that problem. It's great to have the privilege of a problem like that.
The company I work for can put me in any of several other cities if I want to go, so I'm really going to get out of this Jesusland hell-hole before too much longer, and this kind of crap will hopefully be just a fucked up memory. I'm waiting for someone close to die, and then I'm gonna do it, even though it'll mean leaving family and many very close friends behind. I'm leaning toward Atlanta or Tampa. I've visited Atlanta fairly frequently and Tampa once over the past couple years. I love both. I've got a lot of friends in Atlanta, so that's probably where I'll go, but Tampa sure is an exciting, vibrant city. I love it, so I haven't made up my mind yet. What I really want to do is get away from the goddamned xians (when I use that phrase and that spelling, I'm speaking of that kind). It's easier, though, to just get away from straight people. The gay areas of those cities are quite large, so at least I'll be able to keep away from that certain kind of xian, even if I'm not trying to get away from all straight folk!
I think maybe Percy has a point, even though I resent the implication from him and all the other heterosexual admins that I'm "thin-skinned" or politically correct. I guess when it gets down to it, most heterosexual men will come down on an outsider before they come down on one of their own. But if Ringo's hypothetical had been the actuality,
no one would be having this conversation. So, given the fact that those admins don't get the insult, and they think I'm thin-skinned, I think the only thing for me to do is move along. I really have gotten tired of most of the xians on here; I guess my patience for them is what has worn thin. Certainly, as at work and with friends and most family, I don't
have to put up with those bigoted morons anymore, so why should I? They never change. It's not worth it.
If you'd like to continue to communicate with me, my email address is in my profile. And say good-bye to Brad McFall for me. He was always very kind and I really like him
You take care!
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