Hit the fainting couch, everybody!
Potty words! Children will never hear potty words otherwise! They certainly will never hear them on television, at school, in movies, from their friends, blah blah blah, etc.
Those jackasses never will comprehend the true meaning of the word “hate,” will they? Again, for the slow children in the class [looking at you, Ms. Srivastav and Ms. Brown]: your worldview is hateful. You believe an entire segment of the population should be denied our constitutional rights. We are merely exercising our constitutional rights to call you hateful morons. And we will continue to do so.
My stars…introducing children - mere children! – to naughty words! I mean, they’re old enough to handle concepts like demonizing the gays, but come on.
Yeah.
Why isn’t NOM calling out some of the words coming out of the mouth of some of Fred Phelps’ grandchildren? Double standard, anyone?
Oh my dear, innocent children being instructed to use curse words! The horror! Oh the humanity! Won’t someone think of the children, please think of the children!
How interesting. It’s okay for children to think of lgbts as freaks and their classmates who live in lgbt households as hellbound, as long as they don’t cuss.
NOM does make one good point. It does seem kind of stupid to use children in such ads. If only because we know NOM will exploit such a video as they have just done.
Of course, we all know that groups like NOM love bullying in schools where kids are called much worse than anything in this video. But, still, as a movement we must use our brains as well as our emotions.
Oh brother. I went to school in the SIXTIES and I can assure you I knew all the curse words by the time I was the age of the youngest of these kids. Talk about a tempest in a teapot. As for the nonsense about *teaching kids to hate,* there is only one appropriate response to that: “Pot/Kettle.”
That being said, I kind of figured when I first saw the FCKH8 videos that we were giving these people more ammo to use against us.
NOM and the hysterical ninnies over at CWFA live in a world where children don’t swear, do not play “doctor” and infants don’t get erections.
Boy, this one is seriously over the line. If the tables were turned, would we take kindly to such a foul, in-your-face vid like this? Bad enough anti-gay organizations make up s**t to smear us, but going at them this way is really low. The facts about sexuality and human nature speak for themselves; there is no need whatsoever to stoop to this. The use of the kids saying such crap is really too much. This is offensive to the max.
I will revert to a point I’ve always made…
We can all agree and disagree over the tactics employed by different groups/individuals fighting for LGBT equality, which is fine, because we’re all different personalities with different sensibilities. But right there in the last words of that sentence is why these different tactics and voices are so important: the people we’re trying to reach have different ways of receiving information, different things that will resonate with them more strongly. This is a video that’s aimed at, I think, people in their 20s and 30s who might still be sitting on the fence. It uses humor, and, though “potty language” has always been around, people in their 20s and 30s, I think, have a lot more of a healthy relationship, as an age group, with such language, than perhaps other generations do. It seems to have lost a lot of its stigma. And, of course, the other tactic this video is using is shock value. That will work on some people, and it won’t with others. But as always, it’s the chorus of different voices saying the same thing in different ways that effects the most change.
I agree Evan. I’ve had some LGBTs tell me I’m too in your face and I should soft pedal it like they do. My response has always been that a variety of aproaches is best and there’s room for my style and room for yours as well.
Kids use the language their parents use. I’ve met people who are otherwise quite decent people who use language that would make the proverbial truck driver blush. I’m showing my age but I was in my twenties before I dared swear in front of my parents. These days kids don’t care because their parents don’t care.
Yeah, I agree, John. I have a friend who has a sailor’s mouth, and she always has. Instead of trying to pretend like the words don’t exist, with her kids it’s always been a matter of “Look, there are words you are not supposed to say at school and in front of other adults, etc., and here’s the deal: If you say something at home, I’m not going to be mad. But if you embarrass me in public, or at school, you’ll never speak again, got it?”
What’s funny is that it’s usually her kids who are more the “mouth patrol” in the house.
f**k them.
They exploit children continuously with their fearmongering campaigns while they push legislation that puts real children at risk. They don’t give a flying f**k about children. Children are just another pawn in their hateful anti-gay agenda. Anybody who is more concerned about some kids using a bad word than kids suffering and dying because of the poison NOM and their pals spread is fucked in the head.
They have to find something to draw people’s attention away from their campaign of hate. And anything that affects “the children” is gonna be a sure winner. It is nothing more or less than exploiting kids to their own ends. NOM is dispicable.