Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (31077)	2/17/1999 9:40:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

they are just hyper sensitive to any reproach. By the time a gay man leaves high school he has probably been subjected to more threats of physical violence than most of us experience in our lives. Many of those threats get carried out. How would you feel if people who disapproved of your religion or race "voiced their disapproval" by following you down the street threatening to kick your teeth down your throat. How would you feel if people started publishing documents and websites proclaiming that you are a curse and a scourge, that God hates you, that it should be illegal to be what you are. Would you perhaps get "hypersensitive"? I think you have the right to voice your opinion in a public forum in a civilized and non-threatening way. Personal harassment and direct threat, which many gay people experience almost daily, are another matter altogether. Why not just leave them be? They don't threaten you, they don't harm you in any way. My grandmother once told me "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all". Even if you have the technical right to speak, if it hurts someone and helps nobody, why not just keep your mouth shut, as any civilized person would? All in all, it sounds like BS to me. Or possibly caviar. LOL!

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (31077)	2/17/1999 11:44:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

<<they are just hyper sensitive to any reproach.>> I can't for the life of me imagine what is in the mind of someone who thinks it is appropriate for them to go around 'reproaching' people for the sex of the person to whom they are sexually attracted or whom they love. The thing I don't think people who feel gays should be 'reproached' fully appreciate is that homosexuality isn't only about sex. (That's a big 'only,' I know.) It isn't only about sex, it's about love. If you do as the gay-reproachers would have you do and you're gay, you're doomed to live life without passionate love. You might be able to have a farcical marriage, even a friendly one. But the one you truly fall in love with has to be someone with whom you can share sexual bliss. How could one person think of telling another they have to live without that. It's so... cruel. Oh, my poor, poor aunt.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (31077)	2/18/1999 9:38:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

You have a right to speak freely about ideas. The First Amendment protects the free exchange of ideas. Other speech is not protected by the First Amendment. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "You don't have the right to shout 'fire' in a crowded theater." Debate on ideas can be offensive, contentious, and that is ok, that's to be accepted. You don't have a First Amendment right to call someone a "faggot" or a "dyke" or "Kike" or "Nigger." These are "fighting words," words which have a tendency to cause the listener to want to bust you in the chops. You may be arrested for disturbing the peace. If the listener does bust you in the chops, the Court will find that he/she was justified. Why do you spend so much time fixating on other people's sex lives? Don't say Gay Pride marches, unless you can give me a specific time, date and place where one occurred recently that may affect your personal well-being. Maybe you just have too much time on your hands?