"High School Students Crowned America's First Lesbian Homecoming Couple"

[Shadow Wolf]

It's a popularity contest, but is it the most popular couple or just most popular people? Anyways, all it is is a silly popularity contest, but it's cool the school voted a homosexual couple prom king and queen.

 

[Walkntune]

i think it's making an important statement....
some don't like that statement...what else is new?

Yeah it says you can't discriminate against gays but you can discriminate against every boy in the school! That is very strong sexual discrimination.

 

[Skwim]

It's a popularity contest, but is it the most popular couple or just most popular people? Anyways, all it is is a silly popularity contest, but it's cool the school voted a homosexual couple prom king and queen.

Where I went to school it was the most popular of each sex.

My high school never had a homecoming king or queen - heck, it didn't even have homecoming - and I never felt deprived because of it.

Kind of like never having felt deprived of lutefisk. Never had it. Don't know what you've missed.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Yeah it says you can't discriminate against gays but you can discriminate against every boy in the school! That is very strong sexual discrimination.

To be fair, the kind of douchy guys who run for homecoming king could probably do with a little discrimination.

 

[gnomon]

I can understand the reasoning......maybe. I just can't help that everytime I read this title that taking something that highlights the most popular male and female and deciding to essentially put the most popular female's girlfriend in as the male......it's a good thing it's homecoming and such a silly thing because it does kind of question the intellect.

However, if it's a move to essentially move beyond what is nothing more than a silly popularity contest anyway it does seem like a good way to do it.

 

[Walkntune]

To be fair, the kind of douchy guys who run for homecoming king could probably do with a little discrimination.

There is a difference between being a douchy guy and a guy that needs to douche

 

[waitasec]

It's a popularity contest, but is it the most popular couple or just most popular people? Anyways, all it is is a silly popularity contest, but it's cool the school voted a homosexual couple prom king and queen.

i guess if it's a popular couple running then they would be running as a couple or if there are other people who are more popular than the couple then it would just be the most popular boy and most popular girl.

obviously they were a very popular couple

 

[waitasec]

I can understand the reasoning......maybe. I just can't help that everytime I read this title that taking something that highlights the most popular male and female and deciding to essentially put the most popular female's girlfriend in as the male......it's a good thing it's homecoming and such a silly thing because it does kind of question the intellect.

However, if it's a move to essentially move beyond what is nothing more than a silly popularity contest anyway it does seem like a good way to do it.

kids do the darndest things...

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Kind of like never having felt deprived of lutefisk. Never had it. Don't know what you've missed.

I've read about lutefisk. I'm okay with not knowing.

 

[Skwim]

I've read about lutefisk. I'm okay with not knowing.

Actually, that's quite smart of you.

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[waitasec]

Yeah it says you can't discriminate against gays but you can discriminate against every boy in the school! That is very strong sexual discrimination.

again these are kids...
they lack foresight.

 

[Walkntune]

again these are kids...
they lack foresight.

Well you said it makes an important statement I believe which it does about ABC news.

 

[waitasec]

Well you said it makes an important statement I believe which it does about ABC news.

actually these kids are a part of our future...
and to me their statement is an important one no matter how flawed.

 

[9Westy9]

Yeah it says you can't discriminate against gays but you can discriminate against every boy in the school! That is very strong sexual discrimination.

How is it discrimination?

 

[blackout]

Gay guys are often called/crowned Queens.

And what of the transgendered?

 

[Manfred]

Gay guys are often called/crowned Queens.

And what of the [transgendered]

...must fight urge to respond

 

[Father Heathen]

...must fight urge to respond

Don't be shy.

 

[Manfred]

Okay, well if we're going to consider bringing freaks into the conversation, why stop there? How bout a dog, or a cat...that makes perfect sense, right?

Is it so much to ask that straight people have one thing that's all to themselves?
Surely this will not crush the collective spirit of the universal fairy.

Must the gay insist upon inserting their lifestyle into every orifice of the straight man's point of view? I mean is it really that gdamn important to impose their fabulous will on everything and everyone?

I don't know Father Heathen, it just seems tacky, and a little bit gay.

 

[9Westy9]

Okay, well if we're going to consider bringing freaks into the conversation, why stop there? How bout a dog, or a cat...that makes perfect sense, right?

I wouldn't have used the word freak to describe homosexuals. Also how would bringing cats and dogs into this conversation make any sense at all?

Is it so much to ask that straight people have one thing that's all to themselves?
Surely this will not crush the collective spirit of the universal fairy.

depends what that one thing is and why it should be exclusive.

Must the gay insist upon inserting their lifestyle into every orifice of the straight man's point of view? I mean is it really that gdamn important to impose their fabulous will on everything and everyone?

No, but they want to be accepted just as much as anyone else.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Okay, well if we're going to consider bringing freaks into the conversation, why stop there? How bout a dog, or a cat...that makes perfect sense, right?

No, it doesn't. A transgendered person is a person. A dog or a cat is not.

Is it so much to ask that straight people have one thing that's all to themselves?
Surely this will not crush the collective spirit of the universal fairy.

Yes, it is too much to ask. The Homecoming King and Queen represent the whole school, not just the straight students.

Edit: and I think it's worth remembering that it's a virtual certainty that most of the people who voted for this couple were straight.

Must the gay insist upon inserting their lifestyle into every orifice of the straight man's point of view? I mean is it really that gdamn important to impose their fabulous will on everything and everyone?

This is not a "straight" world. It's a diverse world made up of all sorts of points of view - straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender... your perspective is not the only legitimate one, and your voice is no more important than the voice of a gay or lesbian person.

BTW - this "straight man's point of view" has no problem at all with gay people being gay without - horror of horrors! - not hiding the fact that they're gay. While we may share a sexual orientation, don't think for one second that this gives you any right to speak for all of us, especially me.