lol, I am SO with you on this one. While I am single at the moment *pout* with previous girlfriends I’ve personally enjoyed holding hands, not just for the simple love of holding your partner’s hand, but also because I always felt it was a personal part of my politics. I also tend to date women that feel similarly.

But yeah, never backed down from bigoted stares, and the fact that you look back seems to offend them even more, as if you shouldn’t even have the gall to call them on their hateful ignorance :)

But nothing pisses a bigot off more than you being completely calm and reasonable with a slight smile on your face (though I will admit to throwing irony and sarcasm into what I tend to say, but those generally go right by them) as they are all irrational and spittle-raving.

Also, sometimes it encourages them to make comments, thinking I’m receptive. It is then my pleasure to show them up in public to be the double-standard holding bigots that they are by engaging them in an open debate where I remain calm and pleasent while they shout their heads off…

FWIW. It’s a weird, weird world we live in…

You also haven’t acquired all of the kink.

And Robert - you’d have to pry the funk from George Clinton’s and Bootsy Collins’ cold dead booties…

That’s right. We’ve got all the power, we’ve got all the money, and soom we will have all the kink.

Negotiations to acquire all the funk have experienced setbacks, but are still underway.

Blatant is retarded. i can get on the whole “PDA is gross” occasionally (I do not want to see porn when I dont choose to watch it) but is homosexual PDA that much more shameful than hetero? Seriously, to me it’s kinda sweet: they’re in love.

Glitter scares me. It’s scratchy.

Go with the electric-lime-green or the purple-glitter dildo, mythago. I find those go particularly well with the early summer wardrobe.

[drift for Antigone] A few weeks ago, I went into a local coffee shop to get my morning buzz. My (male) partner was with me. We passed a sports utility gas hog in the parking lot with the ubiquitous collection of Christ-hugger decals, including the lovely “ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN” sticker. As we marched into the coffee shop, I boomed as loudly as I could (in the spirit of Kevin Moore and others) “ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN, ONE IDIOT TOO MANY !!!” I was promptly rewarded with an extremely dirty look from two guys at a nearby table, who obviously drove the gas hog (and several snickers from the staff behind the counter).

I wonder if they would have made a scene if I hadn’t been with my male partner ? Ah, well. What’s the point of hetero privilege if you CAN’T try and use it towards good once in awhile ? :o

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Oh, gosh, no ban. That’s when you run up to him, pull a 12″ dildo out of your purse, and say “So, is yours bigger, or do I get to make the rules now?”

Oh wait, I’m an adult, I have the option to look away. Funny how that works…

That needs to be turned around. Personally, I don’t mind seeing any sort of public displays of affection—it’s their right, and it’s not their fault that my eyes are recieving the light that reflects off them and my brain is interpreting it to show what they are doing—so long as it’s not in my face or next to me in a crowded place, and doesn’t interfere with what I’m doing, say, watching and listening to a movie. Their rights to be loud ends where my right to get my money’s worth out of the movie begin.

The argument that it’s an “eyesore” really is a slippery slope—the Taliban used basically the same argument to insist that women wear burqas (men shouldn’t look at women, so women are responsible for making sure men don’t see them) when they (and the moral voices of America) should be teaching “if you don’t want to see something, don’t look at it.”

The sun is bright enough that looking at it hurts your eyes and makes you see spots after you look away. We deal with that by not looking at it. The freedom of expression by other people overrides people’s wishes to not see things they find offensive—with some restrictions such as pornography, slander/libel, and hate speech, but I don’t think PDA’s, gay or straight, fall into these categories.

By the way, if any lurking trolls think of trying the above argument on the Ten Commandments in courtrooms case, don’t bother. Courthouses are government property and therefore not a public forum but a government forum, and the government does not have freedom of expression. It has a responsibility to treat all faiths equally and not promote one.

I will never complain about seeing the ten commandments in front of a church. I don’t even complain about the big tombstone marked “For all the unborn victims of abortion” that’s in front of my local Catholic church, or the billboard a few miles out of town that pictures a (cute) six-month-old baby with the words “My heart was beating eighteen days from conception” (I keep wanting to ask how she kept count) or try to ban the T-shirt I saw a guy wearing a few weeks ago that said “I have the dick, so I make the rules.” I find all of them offensive, to one degree or another, but they fall under free speech, and I don’t hate them enough to give up my own free speech rights to shut them up.

I’ll bet none of the people who complain about PDA’s would be willing to give up their own freedom of expression (and that of others who think the same way) to get rid of PDA’s. No, they want to ban everything they disagree with, and allow and encourage and favor things they agree with. Surprise, surprise.

That’s the one advantage of the existance of homophobes, sexists, in-your-face Bible thumpers, and similar bigots: it’s so damn fun to be rude to people who deserve it.

You got a mouse in your pocket? I’m not in that “we”, nor is anyone that I know.

I have never been in any social context where slapping a child would not draw attention. Where do you live, Folsom State Prison?