First Time For Everything

[Eric P]

I hate the ads that feminize men.

Like when the curly haired redhead millineal asks Alexa how to get shiny hair. Wtf?

[JohnnyEgo]

I hate the ads that feminize men.

Like when the curly haired redhead millineal asks Alexa how to get shiny hair. Wtf?

I feel this way about ads that infantilize men far more than those that feminize them. You're a man that wants long silky hair, then perhaps product X is for you. Implying that you need a product because your significant other is a moron is the bridge too far.
Having said that, lacking any religious convictions, I seldom find myself offended at anything that doesn't directly threaten me or mine, cutting either way on the political scale.

[OneGuy67]

Seems every commercial I see has at least one gay couple - more often gay males than lesbian females, and every other demo except a straight white hetero couple.

IDGAFF what you like to do in your bedroom but this constant virtue signalling is tiring. It's a veiled attempt to indoctrinate.

Recently, my 6 year old son's school had a "Donut with Dad" breakfast event and I took the morning off work to take him to it. While walking up to the school, my son was asking about seeing some older ladies with children and I told him that some kids don't have daddies to come to the event for various reasons, like when I was gone (deployed, though he doesn't understand that), or because they have to work, etc and their grandpa or grandma or mommy are taking them to the breakfast. He then began to say some kids have their grandpa or grandma, or two daddies or two mommies and that is okay too. I know we don't discuss this in our house, so he must be getting it from school. Talk about indoctrination.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I don't give a flying eff who someone else wants to hold hands with or do other things with in private. I DO care when they are force-feeding their "culture" down my throat or trying to break down traditional American/Western culture and values in favor of their neo-Marxist/anarchist ideology, especially when part of the agenda is to replace actual education and science with indoctrination and made-up "facts". I dislike the way the LGBTQAFWXYZ lobby has appropriated the rainbow -- in Christian tradition, it used to stand for God's promise to Noah while in Hawaii it symbolized the lushness of the valleys like Manoa -- but I just ignore it when I see it -- not going to whine to some store about it being "offensive".

WRT the discussion on infantilizing or feminizing men, I sort of agree. I keep coming across a soap commercial on YouTube that makes me groan. The dude in the Squatch commercials is apparently in good physical condition (certainly better than I am) but his emphasis on long silky hair make me think of Pajama Boy and other metrosexuals. I guess I'm a dinosaur. Real Men (IMO) don't give a crap about long silky hair, they want to get the oil and grime out of their fingers after working on the car or get the smoke smell out of their clothes and skin after a weekend of camping out in the woods. I understand Lava soap, Gojo, Fast Orange, D-Lead, etc. but the only reason I have any "moisturizing" soaps in the house is that I bring them home from the various hotels I've stayed at (the only soap I've had to pay for in the last two decades or so are Gojo and refills for the liquid soap dispensers).

On the other hand, I just really don't care if other guys want to use that stuff any more than if someone wants to fly a flag or banner proclaiming their socio-political beliefs; it has no effect on me as long as they don't try to ram it down my throat and it's their business if they want to spend $30-70 on soap, wear a pink tutu, or put bumper stickers all over their car. Just don't take over a tradition or historic franchise and change it for "The Agenda" like the Left is doing to "Star Wars" or the comic book industry.

[ray1970]

I don't give a flying eff who someone else wants to hold hands with or do other things with in private. I DO care when they are force-feeding their "culture" down my throat

While I didn?t read your entire manifesto, I heartily agree with this.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but when you try to become the poster boy for something and push it on other people then you can just go pound sand.

This applies to religion, politics, gender beliefs, or whatever.

[brutal]

Recently, my 6 year old son's school had a "Donut with Dad" breakfast event and I took the morning off work to take him to it. While walking up to the school, my son was asking about seeing some older ladies with children and I told him that some kids don't have daddies to come to the event for various reasons, like when I was gone (deployed, though he doesn't understand that), or because they have to work, etc and their grandpa or grandma or mommy are taking them to the breakfast. He then began to say some kids have their grandpa or grandma, or two daddies or two mommies and that is okay too. I know we don't discuss this in our house, so he must be getting it from school. Talk about indoctrination.

I've commented on this in various threads before, but I just about lost my shit when my 4 year old grandson started using the term "human" instead of boy or girl. My son spoke to the pre-K teachers at PT conference and they feign ignorance of it used in the classroom so we suspect it's coming from Daycare. I haven't spoken to him further on the topic to understand if he's also discussed this with the daycare.

[ray1970]

Technically we are all human. Or even homo.... sapien.

[RblDiver]

Hallmark removes ad of lesbian brides kissing: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/s...annel-ads.html


It is pathetic that someone would be offended by a rainbow flag.

Less than a day later, they've reversed their decision...and thereby pretty much pissed off everyone (one side for cancelling the ad, the other for bringing it back).

[BushMasterBoy]

What disgusts me is the thought of animals raping animals. I need to upgrade my hunting license.

[davsel]

I cannot imagine caring about who another person is attracted to, especially to the point of asking them to leave while doing a joint fundraising drive with the salvation army of all things. I remember a lot from church as a kid about Jesus' good works and stance towards helping the lepers and the poor, but not a whole lot about him not allowing people to help the poor because they had a different sexual orientation. Everybody needs something to be offended about I guess.

https://www.firstdallas.org/icampus/...homosexuality/

When confronted with verses in the New Testament against homosexuality, homosexual advocates will quickly go to another myth of homosexuality. And that is, Jesus never condemned homosexuality. That argument is flawed in three important ways.

First, that argument assumes that Jesus? words are more authoritative than the rest of the Bible. To say Jesus never condemned it is to say that Jesus? words carry more weight than the words of the apostle Paul or the apostle Peter or any other scripture. But we don?t believe that as Christians. Second Timothy 3:16 says, ?All Scripture is inspired by God.? Those are all God?s words.

Second, the argument fails to realize that by affirming the truthfulness of the Old Testament, Jesus automatically condemned homosexuality. In Matthew 5:17, Jesus said, ?Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.? Let me illustrate it this way. Let?s say somebody came up to you and said, ?I believe President Obama is pro-slavery.? You say, ?Why would you say such a thing?? And your friend says, ?Well, I did some research. Of all of the speeches the president has given, in not one speech did he speak out against slavery. Therefore, he is pro-slavery.? Would that be a logical deduction? Of course not. At his inauguration, the president swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. And the Constitution prohibits slavery. Thus by swearing to uphold the Constitution, he was saying, ?I am going to uphold all the laws, including laws against slavery.? It?s the same way with Jesus. When Jesus upheld the Old Testament, He was automatically condemning homosexuality.

Third, by upholding God?s plan for sexuality, Jesus did condemn homosexuality. In Matthew 19 the Pharisees tried to trick Jesus by questioning Him on the issue of divorce and remarriage. Jesus answered by going back to God?s original plan for human sexuality, which is this: sex is reserved for a marriage relationship between a man and a woman. Yes, it?s true that Jesus never mentioned the word ?homosexuality.? He never said, ?You shall not commit homosexuality.? But guess what? Jesus never said, ?You shall not commit incest.? Jesus never said, ?You shall not commit bestiality or pedophilia or necrophilia.? Was he pro-necrophilia and pedophilia? Of course not. By upholding God?s pattern for sexuality?a man and a woman in a marriage relationship?Jesus automatically condemned any deviation from that pattern.