Leah Garchik { Right to bare and right to stare }

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/9/12 | Leah Garchik

[SmithL]

A change of venue for the naked men of the Castro is gently suggested by Mark Abramson: "Maybe they could hang out in Alamo Square and tourists there for the Painted Ladies can get the naked people in the same picture, to kill two birds, you know."

I was driving past the Castro and Market intersection last Sunday, and as I waited for the traffic light to change, I witnessed a playlet. A clothed woman who appeared to be a tourist approached a naked man - actually, not quite naked, he was wearing a hat - and asked him something. He nodded assent, and then he stood side by side with her, posing for a picture that her companion snapped.

Thank you, Adam in the Market Street garden of Eden, for your gracious response to oglers. Some of the unclothed look annoyed at giggling responses to their made-you-look dares. But if you're flaunting it, it seems only polite to accept the stares as gracefully as do those Painted Ladies.

[SmithL]

San Francisco Values

[Carriage Hill]

Too much information about that cesspool.

[Dilbert San Diego]

And on another thread this morning, was a story about how families with children are moving out of San Francisco in big numbers.

Could there be a connnection between the tolerance of bizarre behavior and people with children moving out of that place? Or would such reasoning strain the critical thinking skills of the liberals???????

[buwaya]

“And on another thread this morning, was a story about how families with children are moving out of San Francisco in big numbers.”

Been happening since the late 1960’s. In fact the big exodus (based on school attendance figures) really happened in 1968-1978. Since then the proportion of kids has been slowly but steadily falling. This is not new.

[apillar]

Been happening since the late 1960’s. In fact the big exodus (based on school attendance figures) really happened in 1968-1978. Since then the proportion of kids has been slowly but steadily falling. This is not new.

And probably the reason when you go through many areas today, all you see is middle-age and older, (presumably gay) men sitting around.

[xp38]

The final scenes of Dirty Harry where the psycho captures a school bus full of kids might have had a deeper meaning then.

[buwaya]

Yes it did.
Dirty Harry was a very influential film. It was one of the very few “conservative” movies of the times.

[SmithL]

Yeah, I posted this story as a reference for the earlier one: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2856817/posts