Posted on 12/11/2008 9:18:36 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
SAN FRANCISCO A daylong work stoppage during which employees were encouraged to "call in gay" to express support for same-sex marriage drew spotty participation nationwide Wednesday, with some gay rights activists praising the concept but questioning its effect. In San Francisco's gay Castro district, residents and merchants said they endorsed the message behind "Day Without a Gay" but didn't think a work stoppage was practical given the poor economy and the strike's organization. "If we are going to make a huge impact and not be laughed at, then we have to take the time and make the time to communicate with all the parties. We could have shut down a lot of the hotels," said David Lang, a San Francisco gymnastics coach. "In theory it's a great idea, but it's being done wrong and now that it's been done wrong, I don't think it will be done again."
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Don’t you watch HGTV? Everyone knows gays & lesbians make up 50% of the population.
to call in gay
means a gay with no pay!
...so it closed down San Francisco and musical theaters all across the nation?
Let’s tell them it was such a success that they we now are promoting “a year without a queer” as a follow up..
..then fire their asses.
Petered out..
I’d add three more words in there, but I guess that’s a good compromise.
Wondered why no reporters were on tv yesterday now I know why.
2% of the population are rumored to be gay, so with a limp wristed effort, you can expect maybe one in a thousand actually participanting in the protest.
Is that so there won’t be so many births on labor day?
I called Chuck and claimed to be you.
I was actually sick (you don’t want the details) and did have to call of yesterday. My wife did make fun of me just the same...
“Wife watches Bravo. I’d estimate the number closer to 98%.”
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And the other 2% are just in denial.
Well, that and the suspicion that punishing gay customers by making gay businesses unavailable by withdrawing gay employees might not be the smartest tactic in the political book...
The whole 70's protest idea that the best way to gain sympathy for your political views is to insult and abuse everyone around you never really received the examination it was due, and continues to appeal to political activists more interested in self-expression than in actual success. It was predicated on the idea that if you destroyed your existing environment progress toward your ends would somehow magically appear.
It's Marxism Lite, and it shouldn't really surprise social reformers that it doesn't work very well. What has happened is that the intellectual keepers of these movements have simply decided to maintain their legitimacy by rewriting history, ascribing progress in women's suffrage and black civil rights to the inception of liberation movements. Neither was the case; the actual events were far more complex and difficult. But the model of hatred and destruction of the status quo preceding the victory of an oppressed class is very attractive to people who enjoy ascribing their deficiencies in material gain to the oppression of others.
In short, the notion of "gay liberation" is just as shopworn, oversimplified, and self-destructive as the liberation movements were and continue to be to women and black people. The only real beneficiaries of liberation movements are political activists, which explains their continuing popularity in the face of nearly universal failure.
I called Chuck and claimed to be me and he said, “TS stop it you’ve already called me once.”
A gay with no pay for a day, that’s the way!
I guess I will take off of work because McCain did not win the election because that’s the way people voted. Anytime something does not go the way I want I will stay home...these people are pathetic.
Jack Black...what an IDIOT!
Everybody showed up at my place of business, so no gays here!
However, my daughter called out of work today...uh oh!
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