Think Before you Speak: GLSEN

[ccharles000]

Run time: 00:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C277qAKpUaQ   Posted on YouTube: October 08, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 08, 2008 By DU Member: ccharles000 Views on DU: 1865

 

[PatSeg]

1. That was great!

"That was 'so a girl wearing a skirt as a top'"! Perfect response.

[stlsaxman]

2. seen it before but it's still great! n/t

[Eugenian]

3. That is so straight.

[TurningColoradoBlue]

6. Don't you mean ....

That is so strhaight ...

[alllyingwhores]

4. THAT IS SO GAY.

[barack the house]

5. I am glad there is an ad for this. The new context it's used in is uncomfortable not that it's my >

sexual orientation but when used to say something is bad feels just wrong. Also good to see Aitken came out if more famous people come out then it will only mean folks will have to be more accepting as they can't abandon all their idols. Some intolerant people may well be surprised who isn't as straight as they think. Some have said Aitken is that important it kind of is really as if we take this form of intolerance off the table what will the Republican party have left. Abortion maybe which isn't even in the bible let's defang the beast that is the GOP. Yes, the Democratic party needs work too in this area but general acceptacne will help that along. THe major difference here our party doesn't use it as a means to divide and through that be elected.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Interesting video. Are any of those people in the video famous?

I'm old, I think one of them is supposed to be famous (a Spears sister? Hannah Montana? I don't know.

[ccharles000]

8. I believe hillary duff.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Okay, that's another name of someone I don't know! LOL! n/t

[ccharles000]

11. ...

Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, pop singer-songwriter and entrepreneur. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, Duff gained fame for playing the title role in the television series Lizzie McGuire. Duff went on to have a film career; her most commercially successful movies include Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), and A Cinderella Story (2004).

Duff has expanded her repertoire into pop music, with four RIAA certified Platinum albums and over thirteen million albums sold worldwide.<1> Her first studio album, Metamorphosis (2003), was certified triple platinum and she followed it up with two more platinum albums, Hilary Duff (2004) and Most Wanted (2005). Duff's last studio album, Dignity, was released in April 2007 and was certified Gold in August 2007.<2>

She has also launched a clothing line, "Stuff by Hilary Duff", and two exclusive perfume collections with Elizabeth Arden. Duff and her mother were listed as producers for the movie Material Girls,<3> As of September 2008, her upcoming films include animated comedy Foodfight!, and independent films Greta, Safety Glass and Stay Cool.<4>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Duff

[JHB]

13. Duff, Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus)...

...and a few lesser knows are all products of the Disney Channel Teen/Tween Diva Factory.

If you had five nieces between the ages of 16 and 6 you'd know these things. :evilgrin:

[Guava Jelly]

10. What a great message.

That phrase bothers me as well.

[dipsydoodle]

12. There were issues about it 2 years ago

Gay means rubbish, says BBC :

THE word “gay” now means “rubbish” in modern playground-speak and need not be offensive to homosexuals, the BBC Board of Governors has ruled.

A listener complained after Chris Moyles dismissed a ringtone by saying on his Radio 1 breakfast show: “I don’t want that one, it’s gay.”

The complainant argued that the use of the word gay in this context was homophobic. The governors said, however, that Moyles was simply keeping up with developments in English usage.

The programme complaints committee noted: “The word ‘gay’, in addition to being used to mean ‘homosexual’ or ‘carefree’, was often now used to mean ‘lame’ or ‘rubbish’. This is a widespread current usage of the word amongst young people.”

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article671972.ece

Before anyone falls into the trap of thinking the expression "young people" refers to teens and younger it was in common usuage in the above context at least twenty ago so assume below age 40 or so.