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I'm starting this thread to give the gay youth of our country some positive role models and something to strive for. Slowly but surely we will eventually win our equal civil rights.....and be treated with some respect.
To those of you who have some kind of problem with sharing positive information with our youth.....there's little I can do but try to educate you on the struggles of our gay youth and all gay people in general..
This is a significant milestone for the GLBT community to gain acceptance and to be seen as just citizens of our nation striving to be the best we can be and to contribute to our society as productive citizens.
What are you getting excited about? This is a disgrace to academia and to GLBT people. He is the first one in the entire legacy of Harvard and people are celebrating over that? They should be furious that it took this long for a "gay guy" to be president.
Aside from the obvious sexuality is a superficial non-academic matter and Harvard are saying "Look at us. We are so special we have a gay dude as the president." They should be focusing on the intellect and character of the person not these superficial and irrelevant characteristics.
What is more disgraceful is he is probably a token minority; meaning he will be different on the outside but on the inside he will have the same automaton lifestyle, fashion, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and hobbies as the rest of the homogeneous Harvard herd. This gay will prove to be just like everyone else: another one of the automatons who will help plummet our feeble nation into more crisis.
I remember in one of my business leadership classes an extremely conservatively dressed "openly gay student" gave a bizarre presentation that was oddly against gay people and against equality: he kept favoring the white Protestant's points of views in a circuitous manner. It didn't make sense. Same story here.
What are you getting excited about? This is a disgrace to academia and to GLBT people. He is the first one in the entire legacy of Harvard and people are celebrating over that? They should be furious that it took this long for a "gay guy" to be president.
Aside from the obvious sexuality is a superficial non-academic matter and Harvard are saying "Look at us. We are so special we have a gay dude as the president." They should be focusing on the intellect and character of the person not these superficial and irrelevant characteristics.
What is more disgraceful is he is probably a token minority; meaning he will be different on the outside but on the inside he will have the same automaton lifestyle, fashion, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and hobbies as the rest of the homogeneous Harvard herd. This gay will prove to be just like everyone else: another one of the automatons who will help plummet our feeble nation into more crisis.
I remember in one of my business leadership classes an extremely conservatively dressed "openly gay student" gave a bizarre presentation that was oddly against gay people and against equality: he kept favoring the white Protestant's points of views in a circuitous manner. It didn't make sense. Same story here.
I agree...what took so long...BUT remember that catch phrase....openly gay.......there probably were others....but they did not have the guts to tell the world!
I don't really care what you think of him....and I doubt he does either. NEITHER of us knows the young man so perhaps you should hold off stereotyping him in "your mind's eye".
The bottom line is that it's something positive for our gay youth to strive for and feel more accepted by society. These types of "announcements" help negate a lot of the negative rhetoric gays deal with daily in life....on the net and the media in general.
IF I can get through to even one gay youth who is depressed or contemplating suicide; than I have accomplished something positive. In my day we felt totally alone and had no outlets, like the internet. And for role models we had Tiny Tim.....this development is a small step forward but a start up the hill we must climb to reach equality and earn respect.
I'm starting this thread to give the gay youth of our country some positive role models and something to strive for. Slowly but surely we will eventually win our equal civil rights.....and be treated with some respect.
To those of you who have some kind of problem with sharing positive information with our youth.....there's little I can do but try to educate you on the struggles of our gay youth and all gay people in general..
This is a significant milestone for the GLBT community to gain acceptance and to be seen as just citizens of our nation striving to be the best we can be and to contribute to our society as productive citizens.
I would be impressed except for the fact that before even Obama had this position and he didn't even make the honor rolls.
Makes you wonder if the appointment of this person was for the sake of PC and not done based on the merit of their brains.
We know regarding Obama that when he was there he never even wrote a single article. If this person writes even one he will have written one more than our current President.
I would be impressed except for the fact that before even Obama had this position and he didn't even make the honor rolls.
Makes you wonder if the appointment of this person was for the sake of PC and not done based on the merit of their brains.
We know regarding Obama that when he was there he never even wrote a single article. If this person writes even one he will have written one more than our current President.
I wonder who writes the script for his teleprompter?
I wonder who writes the script for his teleprompter?
Seriously, his speech writer does that and then his chief of staff along with himself probably reviews it before he goes out and spews it on the rest of us.
That process is quite typical, usually the speech writer has their finger on the pulse of who is making the speech and just writes what they are told the topic will be covering. Then like an actor they write the script as for a play.
They all do that, though not all try and bring far left socialism to the USA.
I would be impressed except for the fact that before even Obama had this position and he didn't even make the honor rolls.
Makes you wonder if the appointment of this person was for the sake of PC and not done based on the merit of their brains.
We know regarding Obama that when he was there he never even wrote a single article. If this person writes even one he will have written one more than our current President.
Gee, I thought this thread was about an Openly Gay Student...
As far as Obama writing articles, it takes something from your post when you can't write it with proper grammar...
Gee, I thought this thread was about an Openly Gay Student...
As far as Obama writing articles, it takes something from your post when you can't write it with proper grammar...
ROFL........How true.......Lindsey.....
To the other posters.....Can't we all celebrate this young man and his courage....none of us know him......I figure he deserves his dues...I doubt Harvard did it for the publicity(some people will view this negatively)......and it takes more guts to admit publicly that you are gay than it takes to denegrade people anonymously on the net.
So If a straight person gets an award I assume it's only because he's in the majority and the majority rules........something to think about before bashing the young gentleman.
PS....leave Obama out of the thread...there are plenty others where you can bash to your hearts content..
From what I read in the links you provided, it appears he is a very educated young man and should contribute great things.
I may be wrong, but I seriously doubt Harvard did this for publicity - more due to this man's merits.
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.....this development is a small step forward but a start up the hill we must climb to reach equality and earn respect.
)......and it takes more guts to admit publicly that you are gay than it takes to denegrade people anonymously on the net.
