I learned a new slur today ...

[Football_Bat]

"Breeder."

It's the new "honky."

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-07-20T230758Z_01_N20426060_RTRUKOC_0_US-RIGHTS-GAYS.xml&archived=False

PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Provincetown, New England's summer gay capital, is facing a rise in harassment and discrimination. But this time it's straight people who say they are being ridiculed as "breeders" and "baby makers."

Less than a decade after a successful campaign to end violent paroxysms of "gay bashing" in the beach town at the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, police and town officials report a resurgence in tension between gays and straight people.

Police Chief Ted Meyer said straight people complained of being called "breeders" over the July Fourth holiday weekend, and that in one serious incident a man was charged with assaulting a woman who signed a petition to ban same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the only state where it is legal.

 

[HC]

Good Lord, "breeder" has been around for years!

 

[PeteyPirate]

They need to send Ozzie over there to make it a fair fight.

 

[D-3 Fan]

I thought the GLBT crowd would have something smarter than that. Not all straight people are married to their brothers or their sisters (with respects to "breeders").

 

[Songbird]

The video to Cannonball is kinda cool ...

 

[Idaho]

I think I'll open a new chain of hip maternity wear.

I'll call it The BAP

 

[Ace]

I think I'll open a new chain of hip maternity wear.

I'll call it The BAP

You're not a breeder anymore or gay, so you got no dog in this fight.

 

[Idaho]

I'm just on the disabled breeder list.

Four kids makes me a breeder. Had I been in Provincetown that day, holding hands with my wife and pushing kids around in strollers, I'm sure I would have been just as likely to be slurred with chants of "Babymaker"regardless of the status of my tubes.

 

[Cadet]

I don't condone harassment coming from any source, I see this as a response by people outside the mainstream who have certain "lifestyles" shoved down their throats.

And by "lifestyles" I mean the marriage-kids-picket fence lifestyle. That's the societal Kool-Aid.

Those in the minority - be they gay, child-free, or single-by-choice adult - are becoming more vocal. Hang around with enough child-free people and you'll learn the militant ones refer to children as "**** trophies".

I'm reminded of the Sex in the City episode where Carrie's Manolos are lost at her friend's baby shower: her friend refuses to pay for Carrie's "lavish single lifestyle" and Carrie realizes that between the engagement presents, wedding presents and baby presents she's been subsidizing her friend's own lifestyle choices for years.

 

[Armchair_QB]

So could the gay guy who assaulted the straight woman be charged with a hate crime?

 

[PeteyPirate]

I don't condone harassment coming from any source, I see this as a response by people outside the mainstream who have certain "lifestyles" shoved down their throats.

And by "lifestyles" I mean the marriage-kids-picket fence lifestyle. That's the societal Kool-Aid.

Those in the minority - be they gay, child-free, or single-by-choice adult - are becoming more vocal. Hang around with enough child-free people and you'll learn the militant ones refer to children as "**** trophies".

I'm reminded of the Sex in the City episode where Carrie's Manolos are lost at her friend's baby shower: her friend refuses to pay for Carrie's "lavish single lifestyle" and Carrie realizes that between the engagement presents, wedding presents and baby presents she's been subsidizing her friend's own lifestyle choices for years.

That's strong.

 

[Ace]

I'm just on the disabled breeder list.

Four kids makes me a breeder. Had I been in Provincetown that day, holding hands with my wife and pushing kids around in strollers, I'm sure I would have been just as likely to be slurred with chants of "Babymaker"regardless of the status of my tubes.

You could have worn a "I've been cut, don't hate me" T-shirt.

 

[Idaho]

Those in the minority - be they gay, child-free, or single-by-choice adult - are becoming more vocal. Hang around with enough child-free people and you'll learn the militant ones refer to children as "**** trophies".

So basically they want to be Fred Phelps, just on the opposite end of the spectrum?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Each and every one, a **** trophy . . . :

Keep those condoms handy, boys . . .

 

[Football_Bat]

Those in the minority - be they gay, child-free, or single-by-choice adult - are becoming more vocal. Hang around with enough child-free people and you'll learn the militant ones refer to children as "**** trophies".

So basically they want to be Fred Phelps, just on the opposite end of the spectrum?

Some may argue, the same end.

 

[Bill Horton]

yep ... hate is hate and intolerance is intolerance.

 

[Songbird]

... and love is exciting and new.

 

[heyabbott]

... and love is exciting and new.

Cum Aboard.
Grab a tool
Love, life's sweetest reward.
Shove it in then check for stool

 

[dooley_womack1]

I don't condone harassment coming from any source, I see this as a response by people outside the mainstream who have certain "lifestyles" shoved down their throats.

And by "lifestyles" I mean the marriage-kids-picket fence lifestyle. That's the societal Kool-Aid.

Those in the minority - be they gay, child-free, or single-by-choice adult - are becoming more vocal. Hang around with enough child-free people and you'll learn the militant ones refer to children as "**** trophies".

I'm reminded of the Sex in the City episode where Carrie's Manolos are lost at her friend's baby shower: her friend refuses to pay for Carrie's "lavish single lifestyle" and Carrie realizes that between the engagement presents, wedding presents and baby presents she's been subsidizing her friend's own lifestyle choices for years.

Um, without the "societal Kool-Aid," there's ultimately no society, unless we open a bunch of In Vitro R Us stores and have nothing but single parents. Ya gotta stock the population larder somehow.

 

[Football_Bat]

I don't condone harassment coming from any source, I see this as a response by people outside the mainstream who have certain "lifestyles" shoved down their throats.

And by "lifestyles" I mean the marriage-kids-picket fence lifestyle. That's the societal Kool-Aid.

Those in the minority - be they gay, child-free, or single-by-choice adult - are becoming more vocal. Hang around with enough child-free people and you'll learn the militant ones refer to children as "**** trophies".

I'm reminded of the Sex in the City episode where Carrie's Manolos are lost at her friend's baby shower: her friend refuses to pay for Carrie's "lavish single lifestyle" and Carrie realizes that between the engagement presents, wedding presents and baby presents she's been subsidizing her friend's own lifestyle choices for years.

Um, without the "societal Kool-Aid," there's ultimately no society, unless we open a bunch of In Vitro R Us stores and have nothing but single parents. Ya gotta stock the population larder somehow.

There must be some tadpoles swimming in that Kool-Aid in order to do THAT.