Blogger-in-crime and outstanding writer, PrismWarden, has an excellent review of this week’s TIME Magazine cover story “The Battle Over Gay Teens”. PW notes about the article…..
Time pulls off a near media impossibility in this article. It presents both sides of the issue, introduces both pro and anti gay figures as complex individuals rather than chariacatures, and reveals sexuality as a complicated social and familial issue rather than a mere label. People are allowed different beliefs and opinions without being labelled unmitigated human evil for having a disagreement.
UPDATE: Robbie, aka PrismWarden, has now joined TheMalcontent.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
sweet! I have the same mag on my blog too haha.
Wow, Bruce. Misleading Headline of the year.
“PrismWarden on TIME’s ‘Gay Teen’ Cover”
My first thought: Wow! TIME magazine is covering Prism Warden?
Second thought: Prism Warden is much younger than I thought (and what’s with the necklace?).
Third thought: Oh, wait, that’s not Prism Warden.
Oh…wait….he’s under alot of….well…you know…..nutiness, craziness, etc…nessssssssses…….
Is that the official gay teen necklace?
I am so fed up with this subliminal gay=fem nonsense.
We’re here, we’re queer, we accesorize.
Ef-em, just ef-em.
shit test shit test
So the GayPatriots have a f*** filter inplace?
I guess that F****** just gives gay conservative Republicans the VAPORS! The F****** VAPORS.
Chandler, you’re so (a) hostile, (b) messed up, (c) unimportant. Why do you bother?
By the boy on the cover methinks
that the battle’s about
young gay Twinks.
Chandler, you’re so (a) hostile, (b) messed up, (c) unimportant. Why do you bother?
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Because joe, somebody has to interrupt your endless series of irrelevant posts as you are hostile, messed up and likewise unimportant.
Cheers for the article–it sounds great. It is very nice to see ppl with religious issues with homesexuality portrayed as being respectful. Gay activists tend to forget about it, but we really aren’t battling entirely for acceptance; tolerance is the buzzword, and in its truest form this is exactly what we want: we ask for people to leave us alone whether they approve or not. Sounds like these Mormons in the article got the point of that. Good for them.
Odd timing – there is a movie due out about the persecution and expulsion of the Mormons in Missouri. You think Mormons of all people would understand the value of tolerance and moral relativism.
I loved this part: “Thompson says a new kind of bigotry has emerged–among gays. “Those of us who have chosen not to embrace this orientation are often misunderstood and sometimes even ridiculed,”
Hahahaha. My straight son has yet to be ridiculed at high school for being straight. “Hey c**nt-sucker!” Not. Hahahaha. What a pussy this Thompson is.
The writer of this piece, John Cloud, was on The O’Reilly Factor and kind of intimated that gay teens are not as “activist” as their predecessors. I think that was Lib Doublespeak for saying that gay teens are more conservative.
Incidentally, the writer’s name is very descriptive. He’s freakin’ flying above the clouds, that’s for sure. Nellie with a capital Nell.
Regards,
Peter Hughes
Teens and twenty-somethings in general are more conservative and more religious than their forebears. Probably a reaction to their boomer parents.
I loved this part: “Thompson says a new kind of bigotry has emerged–among gays. “Those of us who have chosen not to embrace this orientation are often misunderstood and sometimes even ridiculed,”
Hahahaha. My straight son has yet to be ridiculed at high school for being straight. “Hey c**nt-sucker!” Not. Hahahaha. What a pussy this Thompson is.
Unless the object is that, because gays are ridiculed and misunderstood by straight people, it’s all right for them to do the same to other gays who may not share their opinion, I fail to see your point. That’s about on the level of saying that, because black people have been the victims of racism by whites, it’s all right for black people to abuse other black people with whom they disagree.