What to Do When Your Boss Is a Homophobe

MSN ^ | 9/10/03 | Dan Woog

[Devil_Anse]

Thank you! Someone else sees it, too!!

But your solution will never be employed by the litigious--there's not enough "ME, ME, ME!" in it.

[upcountryhorseman]

The only problem: how do you spell "perceived"?

[ladylib]

Pink triangle. They use them in schools.

[CyberCowboy777]

What to Do When The Writer Is a Comosenseophobe?

[Kuksool]

The author of the article would probably cry "homophobia" if a company gave charitable contributions to the Boy Scouts.

[Doc Savage]

Slap him on the back, say, "Way to go boss," and then take him to a nudie bar after work.

[Uncle Burt]

Oh please, please, not the abuse button, you silly man.

[Conservomax]

I think that most rational contemporary people, whether they know it or not, adhere to a basic rule of libertarian thought, which says that people in the minority should be allowed to do what they want as long as they don't hurt anyone or force their wills and wants on the greater public. The gay movement seems completely oblivious to this and are try to subvert natural social evolution. Hence the sharp decline in peoples' attitudes to gay issues in the last 5 years.

Of course, they blame Bush, but that's a whole other ball of yarn.

[showme_the_Glory]

uncomfortable looks when you put your partner's photo on your desk.


Hmmmm......... I never got an uncomfortable look when I put a picture of my wife on my desk........

[Doc Savage]

Dan Woog?? Like wouldn't you change that last name? Duh...!

Of course you're right Dan, why should heterosexual red-blooded American men find it disgusting or dirty or distasteful to be groped by a homosexual?? And surely there can't be anything wrong with one homo man inserting his erect penis into the anal canal of another homo man for mere sexual pleasure, can there?

And as for homo fisting, homo fellatio, and homo analingus, and other great homosexual contributions to 7th Grade Health Education, surely these activities are and should be considered "normal". Right Woog??

[FeliciaCat]

I agree.

[Porterville]

I guess you buy him a six pac and teach him to burry those feelings around liberals.

[Conservomax]

"Uncomfortable looks when I put my partner's photo on my desk"

PUHHH_LEASE, Who is his partner, a cyclops? Give me a break.

Hate Crime Helper

[SevenDaysInMay]

I have found that most flaming bundles of sticks to be too obnoxious and offensively disruptive to work for me, especially when on display in front of customers/clients or chatting themselves into frenzies. Swishers, I've fired them for cause, and the ones who came after them, so to speak.

Sapphics can control themselves far better, in my experience. Lipstick lesbians seem to have the game down so as not to offend customers with an in your face homo or comrade agenda. However, the plaids have a more difficult time of not becoming sand in my business machinery, in my experience.

Austin, Texas is full of the above homo agenda homoos looking for work and looking for litigation. Rainbows are welcome, but they must absolutely control themselves, as must any sexual predators.

Homosexuality is not normal. It is a biological deadend. Too many of these biological mistakes and disease vectors flaunt their sexual obsessions rather than go about their work lives as psychologically normal people. Too many are damaged goods which is not our problem.

On-site video/audio helps kill premeditated litigation in the crib.

I have had remarkably good experience with physically damaged men and women who strive to be just normal, productive employees - where sexual and political agendas are not foisted on those who dislike clowns on display.

Homo sit-com characters are apparently too often role models for immature homosexuals.

I don't phob homos; I find the masterbation by committee trolling behavior and/or high risk/suicidal sexual activity agenda at work to be offensive, disruptive, and harmful to my places of business, so I fire them as needed, if they were hired by accident. I don't accept inappropriate behavior.

I never hire law students regardless of which of the 5 sexes they purport or through behavior to be. I enjoyed firing two who provided said false information on their job apps. I don't know if they were normal or homosexual as I didn't care. Both were liars.

[showme_the_Glory]

Uncomfortable looks when I put my partner's photo on my desk"

PUHHH_LEASE, Who is his partner, a cyclops? Give me a break.

Hate Crime Helper

Thanks for the Hate Crime Helper link. It is very practical.....

[LiteKeeper]

INTSUM rant - BTW - there is no such thing as "homophobia."

[from occupied ga]

What if your boss makes an anti-Jew comment? Anti-Christian? Anti stay-at-home mom?

quit sniveling and go on with your life?

[geedee]

Gay people are hurting their own cause, it is as if they need to create percieved oppression in order to have any worth.

Agreed. Here's a true story to back it up.

My brother . . . married for 20 years, two daughters . . . announced to the family in August of 2002 that he is gay and getting a divorce. He didn't just call everyone and tell them, he made a bus tour out of it and traveled from town to town to tell each family member in person.

I wasn't shocked, or even surprised since I'd predicted such was the case ten years earlier because of the marital "habits" of him and his wife and a hit-and-run accident that didn't make sense, BUT OTHER MEMBERS WERE SHOCKED AND OUTRAGED. Hell, they said, he was with the (Professional sports team) for twenty years! How in the hell can he . . . Did he . . . Did the players know . . . Why would . . . The questions were many, the answers few.

I'll skip the details and get back on point . . . Why did he tell us now? After 50 years, according to him, of knowing he was gay? Why now?

My brother was the victim of a hit-and-run accident a few years ago that just never quite made sense to me. He's outgoing and definitely not shy about giving his opinion on ANYTHING, yet this story was hush-hush and never to be discussed. My brother was seriously injured at the time . . . why wasn't he pissed off and raising hell? It just never made sense to me so one time while I was on a business trip to the city he lives in I decided to check into it. All I had to do was go to the address where the "assault" took place. Gay and lesbian bars were the predominant businesses for two blocks in any direction.

I could reenact the events as though I'd been there . . . The teenaged driver and a few tough friends decided to bash some queers. My brother was the bashee.

By the way . . . the teenaged driver's parents came up with a big, big cash settlement. The driver, however, was never charged with a crime. My brother refused to press charges at the time.

Remember, I'm the only one in the family that definitely knows all this . . . but I'm guessing my brother's wife put two and two together as I had and that explained the divorce.

I know this is along and I apologize but I think it's important for others to know that militant gays affect their families' lives too.

Okay, remember the timeline? My brother took his grandiose tour in August of 2002 announcing to the world and the family that he was gay. He was defiant and defensive and spoiling for a fight. I was the only one to give him one but I'll explain later why I did.

My father died May 28, 2003. He'd been in relatively good health in August of 2002. Is there a connection? We'll never know. But we do know it didn't help. My father was a World War II veteran, a Texas rancher from a ranching family, a man's man -- lean, mean, and way too damn proud for his own good.

My brother used to dominate all the family discussions. Hell, he'd been involved with professional sports and this association enlightened all our lives because we'd gotten to mingle with the folks similarly involved. I'm still on a first name basis with some sports icons . . . how could we not talk about such things?

After August of 2002 my father never talked about my brother again. Never. He didn't raise hell to my brother when he made his tour, he never spoke ill of my brother to anyone, he just never spoke of him again. Never.

My brother's wife -- soon to be ex-wife -- and I have always been close. At my father's funeral I learned from her that my brother had joined a "radical" gay rights group in May of 2002. I also learned I was wrong about how she learned he was gay . . . she's an airline attendant and was gone when the assault occurred and the address of the hit-and-run had never come up. She was just as shocked as everyone else by his admission.

I exploded. I cornered my brother where we could be alone. I suddenly realized I didn't know this man. He rattled off the gay "talking points" as though he'd been indoctrinated in North Korea. He was the victim . . . Being gay was normal . . . The Bible doesn't condemn homosexuality . . . Gays were being oppressed just like the slaves were in the 1800's . . . He didn't give a shit what either I or anyone else in the family thought . . . He was sick of having to hide it and he would spend the rest of his life fighting for equal rights.

Right before I broke his nose, I said, "Great, you've already spent the rest of Dad's life. Feel better now? I don't care whether you're gay or a devil worshipper but Dad didn't know about it for fifty-three years, why did you have to come out of the closet now? Why are your rights of self-expression more important than his rights of ignorant bliss? You knew how he would take it. Why tell him now?"

I'm not proud of it, and I'm damn sure poorer for it, but I couldn't take his smugness so I hit him.

He never did get it. He still doesn't.

He's the oppressed. Their rights trump all others.

I've lost a father. I've lost a brother.

I hope it's worth it to him. I'd never been pro-gay or anti-gay before. As you said, conservo, I didn't care one way or the other. It didn't affect me.

But it's intruded into my life now. I don't appreciate anyone who gets in my face about anything . . . brother or stranger . . . queer or straight.

[Gorzaloon]

How long ago was that? I had to think about the last female boss I had. She was a doll, and easy to work for.

It was just after the post-election rapture when the Clintons ascended the throne, and the Liberals all thought that the new Red Dawn had come.

Working in a technical field, I never cared about my boss's plumbing; I cared about their intelligence and expertise, and have had all kinds of good managers and bad in my career.

This was the one that nearly provoked me to violence.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

In my experience, guys who like to get into the most graphic detail of gay sexual practices tend to have some unresolved issues regarding their own preferences.