Pro-gay hets
Somehow Dan Savage always puts a “d-uhh” spin on everything. I love the way his mind works, it tends to the obvious, whereas the rest of us try to make things so complicated.
Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger, a Seattle alternative newspaper, argues it would be good for the district to send someone who is not gay to the Legislature. “When a district with a powerful gay bloc sends a pro-gay heterosexual to the Legislature, that makes a statement to the other heterosexual legislators about the possibility of being a pro-gay straight legislator,” said Savage.
Source: The Seattle Times
Homosexuality
And if anyone reading this believes that gay men can actually become ex-gay men, I have just one question for you: Would you want your daughter to marry one? Evangelical Christians seem sincere in their desire to help build healthy, lasting marriages. Well, if that’s their goal, encouraging gay men to enter into straight marriages is a peculiar strategy. Every straight marriage that includes a gay husband is one Web-browser-history check away from an ugly divorce.
Censorship
Newspapers, who are complaining about falling ratings, should think about this. Mediabistro and Savage were discussing that some or other newspaper censored a Doonesbury comic because it mentioned masturbation.
If you don’t have anything in your paper that’s going to upset a five-year-old then 35-year-olds are going to look elsewhere for the kind of writing that appeals to them and speaks to them…I think the comics page is really the bellwether of the health of the daily newspaper.
Mind control
Note I didn’t send to the corporate owners of the place I
work for, for fear of reprisal. Sad, really sad.
I believe this page was blocked in error because:
Dan Savage is an advice columnist. The content of his columns includes, granted, fetishism, note ‘includes’, as opposed to ‘solely consists of how-to’s’. Dan Savage’s advice is sane and safety oriented. You should be glad that students would be looking up how-to do things safely, both in terms of the things they do and with whom. I can assure you that it would be unlikely for students to be sitting masturbating over Dan Savage’s sane advice. Dan tells it like it is:
“With all due respect, Glen, fuck your complex underlying factors–and don’t change the subject. I wanna talk about gay men who infect other gay men with HIV. Like a lot of HIV-positive guys, you would no doubt prefer to discuss HIV-negative gay men who take foolish risks… HIV infection rates among gay men continue to rise despite the millions of dollars spent every year on blame- and shame-free HIV prevention campaigns. I’m not advocating fear-based prevention campaigns, Glen, but truth-based campaigns: HIV-negative guys who take stupid risks and get themselves infected have only themselves to blame; HIV-positive guys who infect other gay men ought to be ashamed of themselves.”
Of course, this is your machine, you have the power to decide. I will bow to your authority. But just so that you know how ineffective your bot is, I have been reading this archive of Dan Savage’s work for roughly 7 hours, in two separate sessions with a two-day interval, before your bot kicked into action. So, you are not really managing to ‘protect’ the not-underage adults on campus anyway.
An educational institution is there to ‘teach’, which is not ‘rear’. To my mind you have treated these students as children; and you are not in the business of child-rearing.
PS: I felt I had to lodge my complaint because I believe there is no real or effective way to control minds without using techniques disapproved of by the Geneva Convention.
