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Harvard gays jarred by Jada
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Posted on 10/24/2006 1:25:20 AM PDT by JedForbes

By Brian Ballou, Boston Herald Thursday, March 3, 2005

Hollywood actress Jada Pinkett Smith may have been honored as Artist of the Year Saturday at Harvard University, but her speech ruffled some feathers among the Ivy League school's gay community.

The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance is reportedly taking issue with Smith's remarks as being too specific to heterosexual relationships, according to The Harvard Crimson.

``Some of the content was extremely heteronormative, and made BGLTSA members feel uncomfortable,'' BGLTSA co-chairman Jordan Woods told the Crimson.

The fallout comes as Harvard President Lawrence Summers continues to come under fire for comments made about women and science during a speech last month.

The BGLTSA has called for an apology from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which brought Pinkett Smith to campus.

Both groups are working together to ``increase sensitivity towards issues of sexuality at Harvard,'' according to the Crimson.

Yannis Paulus of the foundation's student advisory committee said the actress was talking about her own life. ``She wasn't trying to be offensive,'' Paulus told the Crimson.

While neither group specified what Pinkett Smith said that was so offensive, a previous edition of the Crimson included a quote from the actress from the event at Sanders Theater.

``Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career,'' she said. ``They say you gotta choose. Nah, nah, nah. We are a new generation of women. We got to set a new standard of rules around here. You can do whatever it is you want. All you have to do is want it.''

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Massachusetts
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Thought I'd seen it all. "Heteronormative"???

Btw I got to pfox.org's site from a related thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724794/posts, it's an interesting site.

1 posted on 10/24/2006 1:25:21 AM PDT by JedForbes
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To: JedForbes

jada, jada, jada jada jing jing jing


2 posted on 10/24/2006 1:27:42 AM PDT by drlevy88
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To: IncPen

ping


3 posted on 10/24/2006 1:29:00 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: JedForbes

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!


4 posted on 10/24/2006 1:30:33 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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Women, you can have it all ...You can do whatever it is you want. All you have to do is want it.

That's all you have to do. Really. That's all.

5 posted on 10/24/2006 1:31:06 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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The BGLTSA has called for an apology from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations

Hummmm,....that's queer, that outfit sounds pretty politically correct by it's title. Are you sure these people aren't taking it wrong?

6 posted on 10/24/2006 1:32:22 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Jeff Chandler

yeah, nobody's calling her on this nonsense


7 posted on 10/24/2006 1:32:25 AM PDT by drlevy88
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To: Navy Patriot
Hummmm,....that's queer

you nailed it

8 posted on 10/24/2006 1:33:12 AM PDT by drlevy88
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To: drlevy88

Did you get as far as "taking it wrong"?


9 posted on 10/24/2006 1:34:50 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

That's SOP for queers


10 posted on 10/24/2006 1:35:40 AM PDT by drlevy88
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To: JedForbes
The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance is reportedly taking issue with Smith's remarks as being too specific to heterosexual relationships

She referred to husbands and men when talking about what women can have. Guess that upset the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters because she didn't say "partner" instead of "husband" or "man".

The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance is a bunch of insecure and easy offended idiots...

11 posted on 10/24/2006 1:36:24 AM PDT by Screaming_Gerbil (Let's Roll...)
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"Heteronormative."

Those bright Harvard students using redundant terms again. Tsk, tsk.


12 posted on 10/24/2006 1:37:16 AM PDT by MilesVeritatis (War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things...." - John Stuart Mill)
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That's all you have to do. Really. That's all.

Heh very true, I was so blinded by the BLGTBS (or whatever their acronym is) I forgot to notice that Ms. Smith was also spouting a giant, steaming pile of balloney.

13 posted on 10/24/2006 1:38:01 AM PDT by JedForbes
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The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance is a bunch of insecure and easy offended idiots...

That's the queer game. America is falling to the whinos.

14 posted on 10/24/2006 1:38:10 AM PDT by drlevy88
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To: JedForbes
Higher education is a veritable cornucopia of baloney.
15 posted on 10/24/2006 1:43:44 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: Screaming_Gerbil
The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance is a bunch of insecure and easy offended idiots...

Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans-gender, and Supporters are, by definition, insecure and easily offended. To become idiots requires advanced degrees.

16 posted on 10/24/2006 1:46:13 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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Women, you can have it all ...You can do whatever it is you want. All you have to do is want it.

You mean all that studying and hard work and devotion was for nothing? All I had to do was want it?

Damn.
17 posted on 10/24/2006 1:49:08 AM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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We (the good guys - and girls) have 55% of the population and 95% of the guns. We won't fall that easily.

I think even most liberals would laugh at these queer-fanatic idiots if no one was looking.


18 posted on 10/24/2006 1:51:18 AM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: JedForbes

Summers hasn't been president since June; how old is this?


19 posted on 10/24/2006 1:55:57 AM PDT by ivyleaguebrat
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To: JedForbes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1355237/posts

This was posted 3/3/2005....


20 posted on 10/24/2006 2:00:04 AM PDT by ivyleaguebrat
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