More marriage for teh ghey

[LadyShea]

I had pointed that out earlier AB, but then I read the Gay Days website and it's city wide, and they have days at all major attractions, not just Disneyworld, so I edited it. Universal got the ghey as well.

[Kael]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

Why don't urinals have little divider walls so men don't have to see each other's junk? Maybe no need for full stalls and doors, but like a little cubicle or something?

Some do. Others are basically open troughs. Still, many insist that even with dividers the standard rules of urinal spacing apply. It's not about seeing another man's junk, it's about being in proximity to another man while handling your own. Turns you gay, or something. I don't know. It's complicated.

[The Lone Ranger]

In lots of bathrooms, there is indeed a partial partition that helps to reduce the likelihood that you'll be traumatized by accidentally getting a glimpse of some other guy's genitalia. Not all public restrooms have this feature though.

I'm sure somebody is to blame for that oversight.

[LadyShea]

We ladies have way, way, way less trouble seeing each other pee then men apparently do, so why did they segregate us into little stalls and not the guys who have to handle their manparts and all that gay stuff?

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Sorry! Must have missed that part of your post, Shea.

I have a love/loathe relationship with Disney (obnoxious commercialism vs growing up with The Little Mermaid and Beauty & the Beast), but damn if they didn't rocket up in my eyes when I heard that.

[ChuckF]

hahahaha that "group urination" thing is awesome. Pissing in a public bathroom is probably one of the most business-like rituals that men engage in every day. It is pretty much a 100% no-talking, look-directly-forward, pretend-no-one-else-is-around activity. I don't know if that writer went in expecting to find a bunch of guys all kissing and holding each other's junk while they pee on some naked dude in the middle (because this is how the gays have sex with each other) or something, but I'm sure he was very disappointed.

[LadyShea]

Why do you loathe Disney?

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Overcommercialization, mostly. And as much as I love most of their movies, they crib heavily from other cultures or outright change the story (see: original version of The Little Mermaid).

[The Lone Ranger]

Disney also has a reputation for using some pretty heavy-handed tactics to stifle perceived competition. Not that the same can't be said for virtually all large corporations.

[erimir]

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

I'm sure somebody is to blame for that oversight.

Probably a homosexual.

Originally Posted by ChuckF

hahahaha that "group urination" thing is awesome. Pissing in a public bathroom is probably one of the most business-like rituals that men engage in every day. It is pretty much a 100% no-talking, look-directly-forward, pretend-no-one-else-is-around activity.

I wonder if that's just American/European culture, or if that's different elsewhere.

But also, it's pretty much that way for gay mens too. I mean, part of it is that you don't want to offend the person whose dick you're looking at, and also that flaccid dicks pissing aren't really all that appealing to look at anyway (although, YMMV, p. sure some people love that).

But even at the gay club, where you're assured of no "gay panic" attacks, it's pretty much all bidness.

I don't know if that writer went in expecting to find a bunch of guys all kissing and holding each other's junk while they pee on some naked dude in the middle (because this is how the gays have sex with each other) or something, but I'm sure he was very disappointed.

So am I to take it that you've never done that?

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

I like the preamble justifying your reading of The Christian Post.

I just wanted to explain how I innocently wound up there. I didn't want anybody to get the wrong idea and think that I visited The Christian Post because some anonymous (and mustachioed) sex partner pushed a card with the URL on it through an Official Disney Homosexual Experience GloryHole® after some group urination in the Magic Kingdom™.

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

I think it's going to be available exclusively through the mac app store, which, about time because I had to buy fucking disks the last couple times like a goddamn refugee? Seriously, Apple.

I KNOW RIGHT but there is some security in having the disc. Like what if I fuck things up and have to restore? I assume you can make a restore disc image or summat.

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

Seriously? GODDAMMIT, THAT TICKET TAKER HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO.

lol sack has ghey panicks

Originally Posted by erimir

So am I to take it that you've never done that?

With apologies to the great John Prine, never is a word I seldom use.

[Ensign Steve]

Is this the catch-all gay civil rights thread now? I'm sorry if I kind of started that, because gay marriage is an interesting enough issue in itself. I thought about starting a cleverly-named companion thread called Less marriage for teh ghey, but I think that would confuse the issue.

Anyway!

Gay Cop Told Marching in Gay Parade a 'Discredit' | TMZ.com

We're told the cop will announce he's filing an employment discrimination complaint against the department based on sexual orientation ... though Allred won't reveal which department she's targeting until she takes the mic.

I am supremely interested to know which department, because local cops have been marching in that parade since forever.

[Ensign Steve]

Wow, I am slow on the uptake! It's already resolved. He filed the complaint (against California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, btw, and he works at a women's facility in Chino) and won and will march. Yay!

Gay Officer Allowed to March in Uniform | NBC Los Angeles

[ChuckF]

This is not really notable for its legal holding (because the challenge was so idiotic) but it is notable for the astonishingly stupid way that the AP has framed the story.

The Associated Press: Gay judge's same-sex marriage ruling upheld

[viscousmemories]

Originally Posted by Kael

Turns you gay, or something. I don't know. It's complicated.

I'm not a homophobe (some of by best friends are faggots) but I do appreciate it when other men conform to urinal etiquette. I swear there was an illustrated guide to this around here somewhere but I'm too lazy to find it. Anyway suffice it to say that if there are three urinals (as there are in my restroom at work), the first person to arrive at them should choose either of the outer urinals. This will allow the second person to select opposite urinal and keep a urinals worth of space in between. Not because seeing another man's junk is traumatic, but because taking a piss is one of the things I prefer to do in private (as much as possible) rather than holding the hand of a stranger. Nothing annoys me more than walking in to the bathroom to find a guy standing at the middle urinal, inviting me to come stand next to him while we piss together. He doesn't even know me.

[Vivisectus]

Why, why, WHY do they make us do that though? I am one of those people who CANNOT GO when someone else is there. I can barely force myself to pee when my wife is in the bathroom. Why the flying floppety fuck do they make men line up with a bunch of other dudes to piss at a wall?

[ChuckF]

I don't think homophobia has anything to do with it. It's just following the social code. It annoys me when people don't follow public restroom ettiquette, just like it annoys me when people stand on the left on escalators. We're trying to have a civilization here, people.

ETA: I did that urinal protocol illustration but I don't remember where it is or what it was called so I guess it is lost to the ages.

[viscousmemories]

Found it!

[LadyShea]

Dudes are so fucking weird. Why the hell don't you all demand that men's rooms be designed for peeing privacy? Why have you let it get to the point where there is some complicated protocol?

Most bathrooms are designed by other men ya know!!

[Qingdai]

Most bathrooms are designed by corporate men, interested in jamming the most number of bathrooms per square foot. I guess we can all get by with less, just so we don't have to see each others junk and it turn us gay, or gayer.

bathroom parity for women - Google Search

[Crumb]

What are we supposed to do? boycott restrooms?

[LadyShea]

Write strongly worded letters to management of establishments with insufficiently private urination areas. Write letters to the editor. Start a Facebook group for urinal reform.

Duh, crumb, don't you know how to be an activist

[Watser?]

In other news: less marriage for teh ghey, French parliament votes no to marriage equality.
Socialist party promises to introduce it if they get in power (not likely...). Polls say 60% of French public is in favour.

If France were to introduce it, we'd have a gay marriage zone from the Wadden Sea to the Algarve

[Crumb]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

Duh, crumb, don't you know how to be an activist

[Angakuk]

Originally Posted by Crumb

What are we supposed to do? boycott restrooms?

Piss on 'em!