Quote:------------------------------------------------------------------------ Matter-eater Man said: Well Jim, I'm sure you helped raise some good kids but that really is the duty & responsibility of any parent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quote: It's also our responsibility to recycle, but we don't. It's also our responsibility to obey the law. But not every one does.
I'm sorry, but I see how some other parents raise their kids, and I believe I am going many extra miles.
Sorry but I believe that is your duty to do a good job. Your certainly entitled to feel good about doing it but gauging it by what other parents are not doing seems like parenting on a curve. No big surprise but I like my parent's approach better.
Quote:------------------------------------------------------------------------ looking at all the progress that has been made concerning gays in the last couple of decades, how much of a role did parents raising a better generation play?------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quote: Nobody says it would be easy, nobody said it would be quick.
My point was that a huge amount of progress has been made & relatively quick. I don't think that was accomplished by your generational approach.
Quote:------------------------------------------------------------------------ Way I see it, the folks who couldn't or wouldn't hide their gayness created events & organizations like gay pride. These things grew & now you have politicians & major companies attending them, competing for our attention. Essentially the people that your worried about making us look bad were the same types who made things better for us in the first place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quote: Pride Parades are not accurate reflections of who the gay community is on any kind of day-to-day existence. That is what I meant by my original remark of "better" that I aspire to, and I apologize for its lack of clarity. Maybe most of those in the parade do, too. I just know that I find much of the parade caricaturish. My life is not a caricature.
The Pride Parade is a once a year event. Being gay occurs the remaining 364 days of the year, too.
There really is no accurate reflections of who the gay community is on any kind of day-to-day existence, that couldn't exist unless we were Borg. The parade isn't but you the individual person isn't neither. Like everybody else, we're all different. The pride weekends however accomplish things you can't do. This weekend politicians showed up, major companies showed up, money was raised to help people in need. While people were in the streets feeling good this weekend you made somebody feel bad for participating in something they were excited about. (a fundraising event perhaps?) Your behavior was literally the only negative I ran into this weekend.
