I'm Not So Gay About This Agenda

[vovat]

I'm most likely not doing a video game post this week, unless I think of something while I'm at work. I've been known (well, known by myself, anyway) to plan out posts pretty much word for word while working, although of course they don't come out exactly the same when I actually write them. The Mushroom Guru posts were fun, but I've largely run

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[kevenn]

I don't have much to say about video games posts because I suck @ video games and don't play them. :)

The Constance McMillan story has done a great job at illustrating how things are still so un-equal for gay Americans. Yes, Constance got a scholarship and internship thanks to Ellen DeGeneres. Yes, she'll be able to get out of there - but what about the next gay kid who comes along? Is leaving their only recourse too? I feel very sad for LGBT people in that area.

[vovat]

I suck at video games, but I still have a lot to say about them. {g}

I have to wonder how many other people there are in the same situation as Constance, but who wouldn't go to the authorities about it, because they're too shy or scared or whatever. Hey, I probably would be. While I have great respect for people who ARE willing to stand up for their rights, true equality is when you don't have to.

[zimbra1006]

The mushroom guru posts were hilarious! I just didn't have anything to add. :)

And that prom story is really ridiculous. My brother's (later) girlfriend went to her senior prom with another girl, at our Catholic school. Granted they just went as friends (but who would necessarily know the difference?) and this was in California, but still. No one gave a crap. The thing that makes me even sadder is reading the types of comments people post about the situation on stories from Yahoo news, etc.

[vovat]

The mushroom guru posts were hilarious! I just didn't have anything to add.

I know I'm usually reluctant to leave a comment that just says I liked the post, but maybe sometimes it's a good idea. You know, Golden Rule and all that.

The thing that makes me even sadder is reading the types of comments people post about the situation on stories from Yahoo news, etc.

What I have to wonder is how those people ever learned how to read. :P

[rockinlibrarian]

I just can't believe that there weren't more (ANY?) adults PROTESTING the fake prom idea when it came up! High schoolers are one thing, with the trauma of fitting in and the general stupidity of youth in general, but honestly shouldn't grown-ups ACT like grown-ups?! And did none of them realize that, whatever your views on homosexuality, what they were doing to her is BLATANT BULLYING/HARASSMENT and is certainly not What Jesus Would Do? The mind boggles.

Also, I know nothing of video games, but like you said, I'm probably one of those people who comments enough elsewhere that you're not TALKING to me in the first place. As for formats, I don't think it really matters what format you use, just that people FIND you. Comment a lot and in really clever ways on other people's related blogs and maybe you'll attract people. I just got at least one person like that myself just yesterday, and I don't post nearly as often as you do!

[vovat]

Well, I have to suspect that a lot of these kids LEARNED their bigotry from their parents.

Comment a lot and in really clever ways on other people's related blogs and maybe you'll attract people. I just got at least one person like that myself just yesterday, and I don't post nearly as often as you do!

I know some people have said they aren't able to comment on LJ, though, so that might be a reason to move at least some of my posts elsewhere. Then again, I guess it makes it easier for other people ON LJ.

[rockinlibrarian]

And I have seen people who make lj identities "just to comment." But when you're not logged in and you go down to comment, it GIVES you the options to comment "anonymously" (and then you can always sign your name yourself) or even OpenID (which covers MOST other bloggy situations), so I'm still not sure what the problem is, and why anyone NEEDS an lj Just to Comment or whatever. I can see having to make an lj identity so that a real-life friend can friend you so that you can read their locked posts, but that's the sort of situation you wouldn't have in another blog format anyway (who locks Blogger posts?)

[vovat]

I'm not sure it's possible to lock Blogger posts.

But when you're not logged in and you go down to comment, it GIVES you the options to comment "anonymously" (and then you can always sign your name yourself)

True, although it seems like a fair number of people don't.

[suegypt]

Baby, I'm from Mississippi, and I've been liberal all my life so don't put that shit on Mississippi just because they have stupid bigots who are proud of being idiots. If you want to get true, I bet there's just as many bigoted assholes in New Jersey, but you wouldn't make the extra snide remarks if this post was out of NJ. You'd probably just say, "That's something you'd expect in Mississippi or Alabama!"

GRRRRRRRRRRH.

OK, calmer now. I read almost all your posts, but just because I don't comment doesn't mean I don't appreciate you. If you don't care for me to see them because I occasionally comment on your stuff, then, maybe this is the wrong place for those posts. Or for me. Or something. I'm depressed.

[vovat]

Baby, I'm from Mississippi, and I've been liberal all my life so don't put that shit on Mississippi just because they have stupid bigots who are proud of being idiots.

That's fair. It does seem like there are more stories about this kind of thing happening in the South, but maybe that has something to do with the media thinking it's okay to insult Southerners. After all, most of the news outlets aren't located there, are they? And California is supposed to be a liberal state, but they also banned gay marriage.

I don't quite understand the final paragraph. You comment a fair amount, and I appreciate your feedback.

[1womp]

Wow. Those are 2 completely different topics, but the combination has prompted me to respond (even though, as a somewhat frequent responder, you're "not really talking to" me). OK, so to "Topic A

[vovat]

I think that the lack of response has only a little to do with where you are posting. LiveJournal, being a forum of bloggers, is populated pretty exclusively by people who believe (true or not) that they are "writers" of some sort. Commenting on another's post is, to them (and me too, I suppose), like Aretha Franklin singing back-up for Miley Cyrus ("I'll stoop to it as a unique, magnanimous gesture, but don't forget who the real star is here").

I can see that, although wouldn't someone who likes showing off their writing also want to comment a fair amount? I generally do.

Unless you are looking for a "You're awesome" comment, the posts that get the most commentary are your memes and questionnaires.

I don't know about that. I don't have any statistics, but it seems like I generally get more responses when I ask for advice or address an issue (like in this post, for instance).

Maybe you should actively invite participation with your Mushroom Guru posts (video games being, after all, an interactive medium).Actually, if you look at