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What have you heard concrete from the US govt re: federally accepted SSM?
Besides that SCOTUS is finally going to examine it, period.
We are talking about Cuba, and they could give a **** what we say.
First sentence, or just about, in article:
"The event was organised by President Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela Castro."
Sure, but did common Cubans participate?
Did you expect them to? Esp. at first? How many men marched with the suffergettes in the US?
The group is demanding their 'rights', bringing visibility where none existed before (I dont think). It has to start somewhere. With the govt not arresting or beating people and allowing it to progress..that sends a message to all Cubans. (And the Castro regime knows that, IMO)
Quite a few actually. Same with the movement in Britain.
What about all the people that agree with him that are not gay? And have not experienced it 'personally?' The thread has many, and so do the other threads on SSM. Loads.
There appears to be a point there. But that is again not relevant to the statement. I was only pointing out, what someone here had said and what it implied. I cannot tell, if he is right Not knowing the fellow. But it could explain, why he is incapable of separating the issues and looking at them unmingled.
Good to hear. When I saw pics of marches in text books, media and on PBS, I only saw women being hosed, having vegetables thrown at them, being dragged away by police, and holding signs.
Since males controlled the papers and pretty much all businesses at the time, of course some men were supporting the women in some way.
His views are similar to and exactly the same as (depending on the other posters) other people posting on this topic on this forum. So why just dismiss his due to 'personal experience' what that does not apply to the non-gay posters?
As i just pointed out, you are yapping up the wrong tree. First of all, it was not my explanation and secondly it wasn't the topic but the lacking capability of differentiation that was of concern at that point.
Ah, so you just didnt think thru your unsustainable accusation to him.
Good enough, thanks.
Well, non democracies tend not to even have constitutions or supreme courts to interpret them.
As i tried to get through your skull, it wasn't I that insinuated the trauma hypothesis. But as always you cannot control your idee fixe. Rather a nuisance, you know?
I like the fact that the protesters were not abused and were allowed to protest.
If the Castro regime is gradually loosening its hold, as seems the intent here, I would encourage it in the little time it has left.
I wouldn't be embarrassed in the least. My country is not in competition with Cuba.
I like that term "gay pride". That is about as silly as being "proud" of being hetero or White.
It's about being an oppressed minority and standing up to those who would belittle you. No need for me as a hetero to be proud, but I can understand gay pride. No need for me to be proud of being white in Europe, but I could understand the need for it in Mugabe's Zimbabwe for example, just as I understand black pride in the US and Europe. D'oh!
It sounds like a feel good thing about being different and belonging.
Nothing wrong with that when you face bigotry, ignorance and discrimination every day. It is also a political statement, a tool of empowerment and many many other things.
That does not make it less silly, as statements go. It seems rather juvenile to be kind.
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