What does “a gay man who isn’t defined by his sexuality” even mean?

It means the gay character is not in the book or on the screen to simply get AIDS and die to provide cheap sentimentality or do the ladies hair or choose their dress for them.

It means the gay character is being fully written into the story but treated equally not like some “very special” one shot national exposure deal on your typical sitcom.

It means the gay character is more than a one dimensional stick figure used as a place holder to appease the politically aware and is actually doing something to further the plot for a change.

It means people are growing the fuck up.

And lastly it means get over your fixation on terminology and the way someone says something and over analyzing every single word chosen. Jesus Mary!

From: Gentleman Farmer

From: Queerty ~ OPINION: Stop Glitter-Bombing Dan Savage. He’s Not the Enemy

Sure I disagree with some of his opinions. That’s what opinions are for. And I’m not going to argue he’s is the perfect spokesman for the movement: Some of his antics—like re-branding Santorum or licking doorknobs to get Gary Bauer sick—are just a little too juvenile.

And kind of gross.

But after all my experience with him and his views I can say pretty confidently that he’s not anything-phobic. He tolerates, even triumphs, orientations, kinks, lifestyles and points of view that both I and Limp Wrist would turn our noses at.

What few examples Savage Haters can muster to prove he’s the son of Satan are snippets taken out of context from 21 years’ worth of columns, podcasts, lectures and books. Mahatma Gandhi could look like Fred Phelps under that kind of scrutiny.

Here we WANK yet again. First RuPaul gets major hate for being a GAY MAN doing drag on Logo and saying tranny even though guys wearing women’s clothing fits under the transgender definition like a lot of other things and now Dan Savage gets glitter bombed a third fucking time for being a GAY MAN who says faggot and tranny on national television and in his newspaper articles.

So Queerty decided to defend Dan Savage.

Just look at that comment thread.

cissexist white able-bodied male-identified movement

Who could say that with a straight face? What the fuck mumbo jumbo gobbledy gook masquerading as some kinda politi-speech thingy… who the hell knows what that is?

First rule of activism: Keep your message clear and concise.

All I get from all that hashed together Live Journal slang is that these activists seem to hate gay men having a voice and are jealous that gay men are on the television and are upset their causes whatever the fuck they might be, since they are never exactly clear about that part of the political activist deal, are not being promoted by these guys.

Why would anyone speak for another group they are not a member of and promote their concerns on television? Why the hell would a gay man promote transgender causes and represent them in “normal opinion based conversations” like they were his own or that he in any way represented that experience? We would be ripped to shreds by those same bitching trans folk for not being one of the them if we even so much as tried to comment or give an opinion on anything like that. Just like I see happen all the time online.

It’s the whole “you don’t understand me so you have no right to judge me” deal. See how that shuts down any conversation and basically you are left on your own at that point because you demanded we leave you alone.

Hell, we barely remember to discuss lesbian causes but live in fear they will beat us up severely or not invite us for those really good cocktails like at that last party. But… you know I always see the lesbians participating at every event I have gone to so that’s probably why we remember to include them because they are there and are a necessary part of what we are doing. You know, being a constant participant in a community makes you an important part of that community. That would take effort right?

Seems like what I am seeing is people trying to take political shortcuts in making their “cause” relevant to the discussion and throw hissy fits when they can’t dictate without any compromise and everything must be in their favor.

Also why are these trans hooligans not glitter bombing Rachel fucking Maddow for doing pretty much the same thing? Sexist much? Lesbians not good enough for your wrath? It’s only gay men who are the enemy?

Randomly attacking folks in a community and taking what they say out of context and ignoring intent in order to use it as a platform for your childish online diatribes of hate speech against gay men will most certainly make you the last person they want to promote or have around. I might be wrong there but you probably should check that next time if your intention is conversation and “exchanging ideas” and not screaming unintelligible words at the naughty gay man, throwing glitter at him, and stamping your feet while calling him whatever-phobic when he looks at you funny for acting like an insane bitch.

Something about all this just comes across to me as really silly immature overly verbose and overly justified sour grapes of a few apparent man haters trying to dictate their way into some conversation they feel left out of and they are, if they want to constantly demand to be the center of attention. I love how all these “online” transsexual activist want to speak for everyone else in their group not present and threaten to leave the LGBLT (hold the mayo) movement enforce or whatever they think is more threatening… like them sticking around might be worse in my opinion after perusing their comments about those horrid nasty evil gay men.

I still do not get how any of these theatrics would change anyone’s mind about supporting their cause after observing their actions in person or reading their constant hate speech online but that seems to be the big plan. I guess going the “feel good” positive social message route was a no go.

So it looks like they want to isolate themselves even more from any “former” designated allies and bitterly lash out at everyone equally after they realize that pouting and holding their breath while running to the bedroom and slamming the door won’t get them what they want either. Nice work if you can get it.

Anyway, grab some popcorn and dive into that comment section it is getting extremely laughable.

From: 9 To 5 Mac ~ AT&T CEO: Recent price jacks due to AT&T’s attempt to monopolize GSM in US

AT&T has a grudge with the Federal Communications Commission, and during the mobile carrier’s quarterly earnings call today, CEO Randall Stephenson criticized the FCC over spectrum availability and the bombed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, with him further claiming AT&T’s spectrum crux is forcing jacked prices against its highest data users.

I am so dumping AT&T. This is really their view of you as a customer. Someone they can blackmail and jack around because our government won’t allow them to become a monopoly because we the people know they would turn around and act like even bigger dicks.

Their lack of bandwidth is because they refuse to put in enough of the right equipment to serve the density of customers they keep OVER selling.

It’s like selling internet access to ten people and while owning equipment allowing only four limited user connections at a time and then having the nerve to blame the customers and jack up the fees you agreed upon in the first place knowing you could not provide them proper service.

They did it on purpose to make money ripping off their customers and T-Mobile was only an excuse to get some used equipment real cheap so they did not have to invest in any new networks for a while. It’s very simple really they would end their self made “bandwidth crunch” with more investment into their infrastructure with better equipment, BUT… then the stock holders would not get those great returns they see now off those stupid customers already over paying for those ancient crumbling slow networks and the company would have to accept the realities of an economy in depression and that just does not work for them so you stupid customers must pay even more.

Nothing will keep them from selling you yet more bigger faster bandwidth hogging Android and Apple smartphones because they make money from that shit but god forbid they take that money and turn around and buy a proper network. Has not happened today and not gonna happen tomorrow. So expect this same excuse whenever their CEO needs another benefit increase because I expect he still got his benefits this year even after they took a 7 billion dollar dumpster dive you poor stupid customer.

Take my advice get the hell off AT&T NOW before they jack you up but good! Gee, where have we seen losers failing in their speculation and their risky business decisions and then handing the bill to the American people. I swear I have seen this show before. Was it something like planes, banks, and automobiles or…

I say let’s do a cut & paste copy of the European cell phone regulations here in the US and hang these guys out to dry. They require these fuckwads to cover all the areas and bandwidth they purchase with proper coverage OR THEY LOSE IT ALL. No buying frequencies for future use that they might get around to using in areas they might someday get around to servicing. Use it or lose it. Do your job or else we lease those frequencies to someone local who wants to do it properly!

From: The New York Times ~ Chinese Readers on the ‘iEconomy’

The News York Times posted their scathing indictment against Apple and Foxconn in chinese and recently posted the comments in translation. This makes my comment of the week because it was exactly what I thought when I read the story.

No Duh! It’s China and they shoot people there for protesting. We just send people to Gitmo to disappear or kill them with drones and why not name all the companies doing this instead of just the two best run examples? Anyway far more interesting reading than the original hyped up article.

But then where is the sensationalism in that?

If not to buy Apple, what’s the substitute – Samsung? Don’t you know that Samsung’s products are from its OEM factory in Tianjin? Samsung workers’ income and benefits are even worse than those at Foxconn. If not to buy iPad – (do you think) I will buy Android Pad? Have you ever been to the OEM factories for Lenovo and ASUS? Quanta, Compaq … factories of other companies are all worse than those for Apple. Not to buy iPod – (do you think) I will buy Aigo, Meizu? Do you know that Aigo’s Shenzhen factory will not pay their workers until the 19th of the second month? If you were to quit, fine, I’m sorry, your salary will be withdrawn. Foxconn never dares to do such things. First, their profit margin is higher than peers as they manufacture for Apple. Second, at least those foreign devils will regularly audit factories. Domestic brands will never care if workers live or die. I am not speaking for Foxconn. I am just speaking as an insider of this industry, and telling you some disturbing truth.

“The late Steve Jobs — what a fitting name he had — created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the President borrowed and blew,” ~ Mitch Daniels

From: CNN ~ Obama created more jobs than Steve Jobs’ Apple

I think we can honestly say that Republicans do not know how to use Google.

Lets fact check shall we…

As of September 24, 2011, the company had 60,400 permanent full-time employees and 2,900 temporary full-time employees worldwide

In other words despite Apple making the most money of an company ever they only employ something like 40,000 American workers at most. I bet the lion share of that is low paying retail jobs at their stores.

Now their major supplier is a different story all together.

Foxconn has 13 factories in nine Chinese cities, more than in any other country.

Foxconn’s largest factory worldwide is in Longhua, Shenzhen, where hundreds of thousands of workers (varying counts include 230,000, 300,000, and 450,000) are employed at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a walled campus sometimes referred to as “Foxconn City” or “iPod City”. Covering about 1.16 square miles (3 square km), it includes 15 factories, worker dormitories, a swimming pool, a fire brigade, its own television network (Foxconn TV), and a downtown complete with a grocery store, bank, restaurants, bookstore, and hospital. While some workers live in surrounding towns and villages, others live and work inside the complex,; a quarter of the employees live in the dormitories, and many of them work 12-hour days for 6 days each week, for under US$17 per day.

So if you want to follow what the Republicans are saying it is simply they want you to work for them 12 hours a day 6 days a week at $17 a day with no medical insurance or benefits. Living in a Company Town shopping from the Company Store praying at the Company Church and voting the Company Policy. That is their solution to putting America back to work by making us basically thinly veiled communist factory workers. A third world utopia.

The sad part is this is not some bitter entertainment funded Fox pundit but a person who holds an elected office. Someone Americans voted for somewhere for some odd reason that also felt he was qualified to speak for them on national television who as it turns out cannot be the least bit bothered to even skim over a few facts before saying this stupid ass shit. This guy got winning votes by blatantly lying to his constituents just like this. Sure we can fix this by educating voters.

Or is that just another lie to make ourselves feel better about the hopelessness of our current choice of two flavors of conservative douche bag being really “no choice at all”?

At this point between Obama the “fake democrat” asshole of big words and lots of fully documented broken or compromised promises and the Republican clown car that wants to sell us out as cheaply as possible to China I am just waiting for the Brown Shirts to show up to enforce the final solution. It’s only a matter of time…

What? You say they are already here?
Glenn Greenwald ~ Rules Of American Justice: A Tale Of Three Cases

Jan Brewer always reminded me of someone in my family. That being my mother’s stepmom.

The crazy alcoholic bitch who had an affair and then married my grandfather for whatever money she thought he had and then found out in an ever so brief moment of sobriety he did not have any. She eventually drank herself to death in a puddle of crazy but before doing that she let you know all about her disappointments in you, in him, in the world at large usually during some rambling bitter drunk midnight phone call. Yeah, she was such a great catch I tell you amazing how anyone with half a brain would vote for such an easily identifiable self destructive psychotic wreck like that though.