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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: My son will never embarrass me more than he did today
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:04:33 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>On Mar 30, 2025 at 7:48:51 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/30/2025 7:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>  On Mar 30, 2025 at 3:19:48 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>  
>>>>  On 3/30/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>    On Mar 30, 2025 at 2:05:26 PM PDT, "moviePig"
><nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>    
>>>>>>    On 3/30/2025 3:06 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>      On Mar 30, 2025 at 1:31:02 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net>
>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>>      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tAntcKymE4
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>      That just screams Bud Light, doesn't it?
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>    I think I'll never understand how anyone could watch that and
>argue that
>>>>>>    effeminate homosexuality is a *choice*.
>>>>>    
>>>>>    Making that the face of your brand, however, *is* a choice.
>>>>>    
>>>>>    KNIGHT TEMPLAR: They chose... poorly.
>>>> 
>>>>  I didn't follow the Bud Light gay saga, but a youTube video suggests
>>>>  that the company did no more than express "welcome" to the LGBTQ
>>>>  beer-drinking community.  If that's a fair characterization, then their
>>>>  subsequent sales-drop seems surprisingly homophobic.
>>>  
>>>  Or maybe, instead of branding everyone who doesn't like that lifestyle as
>>>  irrationally afraid of it, you could just recognize that people found it
>>>  distasteful and voted with their wallets.
>>>  
>>>  Contrary to what all the "phobe"-labelers want you to believe, it is
>>> possible
>>>  to merely dislike a thing without being irrationally afraid of that thing.
>>> For
>>>  example, I don't much like broccoli but that doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.
>>>  I'm not broccoli-phobic.
>> 
>> I think you'll find that most all definitions of 'phobic' and 
>> 'homophobic' denote not only 'fear of' but also 'aversion to'.
>
>I think you'll find that they also include 'irrational' in those definitions.

Definitions? moviePig don't need no steenkin' definitions!