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A Straight Rights Week

Straight Rights Week

Saw this posted on another site and thought I'd bring it on in here.

Remember, Heterosexuals like myself have just as much right to be proud of our sexual preferance and who we are as homosexuals do.

It's not hate, just a show of pride!
Remember, being proud of who you are is important for self esteem.

It's OK, to be proud to be straight! In fact, it's better than OK!

<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ January 28, 2005 03:05 PM: Message edited by: cincygreg ]</font>

WTF? Another example of right wing bloodhounds sniffing for whiffs of treason. This sounds valid only if one has absolutely zero sense of history. [img]graemlins/rainbow.gif[/img]

Now Now Lan, it's not like these people are a hate group or something.
It's not a White Supremisist rally or a Klan rally or gay bashing or anything like that.

It's not based on hatred, it's just straight people being proud of being straight.

If it's ok for homosexuals to be proud to be gay, then it's ok for heterosexuals to be proud to be straight.

There is no mention of right or wrong or hatred, just stright pride.

Sorry, I s'pose I over-reacted [img]graemlins/beer.gif[/img] to the title "Straight Rights Week", which is usually code for the "right" to jail, beat, or commit homos as insane, among other modes of discrimination. I now see that YOU used the title "Straight Rights Week", but the students actually used the term "Straight Pride Week". Well, to each his or her own, but it seems ridiculous - why do straights feel the need to exhibit "pride" since no one has ever discriminated against them? [img]confused.gif[/img] Yes, it sounds gay. [img]redface.gif[/img]

<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ January 29, 2005 03:25 PM: Message edited by: LanDroid ]</font>

Maybe I should have put it as Straight Pride week.


But C'mon Lan!

Straight Pride is Great Pride!

I actually like what they are doing for the simple reason that they are must expressing themselves and their heterosexuality with pride. Some may look at it as mocking the homosexuals, but in reality they are just kind of saying we're proud too and it's just fine to be straight.

Again. if homosexuals can be proud of their sexual preferance, then so can we heterosexuals.

<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ January 30, 2005 11:09 AM: Message edited by: cincygreg ]</font>

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Originally posted by cincygreg:
A Straight Rights Week

Straight Rights Week

Saw this posted on another site and thought I'd bring it on in here.

Remember, Heterosexuals like myself have just as much right to be proud of our sexual preferance and who we are as homosexuals do.

It's not hate, just a show of pride!
Remember, being proud of who you are is important for self esteem.

It's OK, to be proud to be straight! In fact, it's better than OK!

<font color="#FFFFAA"><font size="1">[ January 28, 2005 03:05 PM: Message edited by: cincygreg ]</font></font>

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually, the article is about straight pride, not straight rights.

I would like to discuss context with you, craig, but you wouldn't understand.

You never do.

Okay, I never understood the concept of taking pride in something that you are not responsible for.

I feel that if, for example, Gae and trav cook a fabulous meal for their friends, and receive a lot of compliments, they should feel some pride in the quality of their hospitality and the joy they have given to others. But "I'm proud to be an American" doesn't make much sense to me. ("I'm GLAD to be an American" does make sense.) Being proud of a your good fortune in being born in a wealthy county? Jumper and Pi?a can be proud of having served their country and they have more right to be proud of America's freedom than I, since they have contributed in a real way to the continuation of that freedom.

So, straight people don't need "rights", since there is no discrimination against them, and it doesn't make sense for them to be "proud" of something they did not have anything to do with.

This is stupid.

Qiuit your crying reason, and quit calling me craig you loser.
If you read the article, you know what I meant, plus I corrected myself.

You really have no clue about anything.

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Originally posted by Aurora Leigh:
Okay, I never understood the concept of taking pride in something that you are not responsible for.

I feel that if, for example, Gae and trav cook a fabulous meal for their friends, and receive a lot of compliments, they should feel some pride in the quality of their hospitality and the joy they have given to others. But "I'm proud to be an American" doesn't make much sense to me. ("I'm GLAD to be an American" does make sense.) Being proud of a your good fortune in being born in a wealthy county? Jumper and Pi?a can be proud of having served their country and they have more right to be proud of America's freedom than I, since they have contributed in a real way to the continuation of that freedom.

So, straight people don't need "rights", since there is no discrimination against them, and it doesn't make sense for them to be "proud" of something they did not have anything to do with.

This is stupid.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You mirror a point I made about being proud over something over which you have no control. Though I did make an exception over my large penis. And then I got to thinking about those who have exceptional, innate athletic ability, or highly capable intellectual capacity. Do these people not have pride in these characteristics?

You just dont get it.

If a grouip of homosexuals get together and say they are proud of being gay by having a gay pride celebration, you'd be all for it.
But, you have a problem with heterosexuals doing the same thing?

That's just stupid.

It's a sexual preferance. I have no problem stating that my sexual preferance is the opposite sex. My preferance is to be heterosexual. I am attracted to members of the opposite sex.
It's not that tough to figure it out. Your sexual preferance is really just which gender you are attracted to. I'm attracted to women, so I am a heterosexual.
Why cant you just figure it out?

Homosexuals are not a sex
They have either male or female genitalia
They are not a race
They are not a religion
They are not a nationality
They are not a color

IT'S A SEXUAL PREFERANCE, and there is nothing wrong with being proud of your preferance whether it be heterosexual like me or homosexual like you.


Just a group of straight people showing pride, you can't possibly have a problem with that since you are all about gay pride.

But then again, since you seem so "anti-straight" it wouldn t surprise me that much if you did.

To each his or her own reason, and each should be able to be comfortable and proud of who they are and what they are without basing it on hatred, which this is obviously not.