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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: My son will never embarrass me more than he did today
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:20:29 -0400
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On 3/31/2025 12:04 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> 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!

Speaking of 'irrational'...