Judy, your analysis is, of course, dead on accurate. But, I can't help but think you take Barry far more seriously than he takes himself. I always assume he's just joking around when he posts bullshit just to get a rise out of people.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > <snip> > > And just to stir the waters a bit before I leave > > ( insert evil laugh here ), has no one but me > > noticed the relationship of the 'homophobe' thread > > to the Amma/muslim/cartoon thread? > > > > Essentially, feste *wrote a cartoon*, in words. > > Segueing from comments about laws forbidding sex > > with animals, he made a joke (admittedly, not a > > terribly good joke) about how cowboys having sex > > with each other reminded him of cowboys having > > sex with animals. > > So far, so good. > > > Bam! The shit (literally, in this case, probably > > stirred up from all the anal sex talk) hits the > > fan. The first thing that happens is a bunch of > > people come rushing in to tell the cartoonist > > what a low-vibe slime he is and to keep his big > > mouth shut. > > Uh, no, nobody told him to keep his mouth shut. > > (They did tell him what a low-vibe slime he was > once he had moved from making the bad joke to > explicitly demonstrating his homophobia, however.) > > > Then these same politically-correct > > dogma bullies start in on anyone who *defends* > > the cartoonist's right to express themselves. > > The defenders are as much 'homophobes' as the > > cartoonist is. > > Uh, no, the issue of the right to express oneself > never came up at all. Nobody was defending the > right because nobody had attacked it. > > > In other words, I think we've got the Nightly > > News being acted out here on FFL. The people > > calling others 'homophobes' are playing the > > Muslims who are trying to suppress the rights > > of the cartoonists and control what the public > > has the right to read in its newspapers. > > > > Argue THAT, suckas... :-) :-) :-) > > It would be hard to argue if that were what had > happened, but of course it wasn't. Barry made > it up out of his very own little pointed head. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
