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Originally Posted by Archaea
Your comments are sensible, but you have to remember from whence we came. Prior to AIDS, gay bashing was almost the norm and quite acceptable within society.
I grew up nonLDS with many redneck friends. I'm told, but can't verify it, because I did not participate, some of them went to gay bars to pick fights with them, because "it was fun."
All of a sudden there is this social acceptance of something previously kept silent and hidden, to a nouveau acceptance, yeah a parading of something previously thought an embarrassment.
Many of us still harbor the embarrassment part. It's something we can't understand. I can't see the point of it.
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Ah yes, the good old days. When fun-loving Americans could go out and kick the shit out of a bunch of queers without fear of retribution from that dang PC crowd. Yes, indeed.
You crack me up, Archea.