Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

Well frankly I wouldn't be surprised if there was some truth in the suggestion that it *is* to make their lives more difficult...!

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

Really....you surprise me... :rolleyes:

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

Well since I know a probationary police officer who has pierced nipples, it seems they're ok (or, at least, were the last time I spoke to him).

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

If you hadn't disabled repping, I'd green rep you for this! :)

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

:confused:

Ah, of course, I'm simply "over-reacting" and there's actually no truth in it whatsoever because Russ says so...

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

Putting words in my mouth again Graham?

As you so often point out, what I'm doing is giving my opinion. I strongly believe you're wrong, you strongly believe you're right. Let's just leave it at that.

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

You can still rep someone who's diabled reps. It just the pips that don't show.
Unfortunatly people cant see that the way they phrase things shows an underlaying predudice, be it conscious(sp?) or sub conscious.
If your against something your gonna use negative language, and if your for something your gonna use more positive language.

for example 'gays angered' rather than 'gay rights abused'.

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

Why? It's a valid question.
Or are we no longer allowed to ask questions about "contraversial" topics?
Do you think that gay policemen are overreacting/looking for trouble or not?
Yes or no?
Simple as that.
A statement is a formulation of an opinion, and as such that opinion can be deemed prejudiced, but a question is a request for an opinion, and therefore although the answers can be prejudice, the question itself cannot.
For instance, the question "are people making the holocaust up?" is not anti semetic, but an answer of "too right, it didn't happen" could be considered an anti semetic answer.

As I've said, no patrolling officers should wear jewelery for their own safety.
This is a matter of gender descrimination, not sexuality descrimination, as homosexual women are able to wear earings still.
Now, if some homosexual men in the force feel that they are being descriminated against because they can't wear their earings, then why claim it's gays being descriminated against when hetrosexual earing wearing male officers are also being denied the ability to wear them too?

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

If you're talking about me then wow, seems like you know me better than I know myself......

edit - Wahey, Xaccers is here - the cavalry has arrived!!! :D

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

Your not allowed an opinion with him or didn't you know that already lol

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

OK let's try and stay away from getting too personal against individual members....it's getting late and I'm hoping to get to bed soon.. :)

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

Well, no, actually I was trying to interpret your comment of "Really....you surprise me... :rolleyes: " and that was the most appropriate interpretation of it that I could see given what you have written elsewhere in this thread.

Of course if that *wasn't* what you meant, perhaps next time instead of making a vague comment, the interpretation of which is up to the reader, you could be a little more exact in your meaning...?

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

Ah, I didn't know that, I thought reps didn't happen at all.

Well, in which case, there's a green rep heading your way :)

Yep, very true.

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

You've got a point. Althought you could have just directly asked what i was talking about.... :D

My point was I think that what you were suggesting was quite, what's the word...preposterous and I'd consider it to be almost overkill paranoia. I didn't actually think you were serious initially but now I think you were. The idea that there's an underground conspiracy to make life hard for gays is not a theory I could take seriously. Yes of course many will have experienced prejudice in their time but....nah, I can't even begin on this one.

Re: Gays overreacting/looking for trouble?
 

Im talking about people in general. As far as Im concerned the thread title is written in predudicial(sp?) language and is biased against gays.