Why, she pokes fun at the suffering endured by LGBT teens whose families reject them, of course.
What an odious human being.
UPDATE: Andy Towle at Towleroad reports that GLAAD has issued a response:
I recognize that this is a joke, and that she is not really taken seriously in any context anyway, but with this coming right after National Coming Out Day, at the start of Ally Week and just days before Spirit Day, I thought this would be a good opportunity to talk about this idea of hers. There was a time in our culture’s history when, if thousands of LGBT kids were to come out on the same day, the next week genuinely would be exactly what Ann describes, all across the country. Fathers disowning their sons and kicking them out onto the street. Mothers locking up their daughters or sending them to charm school. Children forced to undergo electro-shock or even worse forms of “therapy” to rid themselves of their orientation. To learn how to not be true to themselves.
And although we’ve come a long way from those ideas as a cultural collective, I have no doubt that last week, more than a few American households experienced the tragedy that Ann joked about. Approximately 50% of LGBT youth experience some degree of family rejection. There are as many as 100 thousand homeless LGBT youth on our nation’s streets, and it’s estimated that LGBT youth make up as much as 40% of our nation’s homeless youth population. LGBT youth who are completely rejected by their parents are more than 8 times as likely to have attempted suicide. Pretty funny, right?
Cow. Fcuking cow.
Wow! What an insightful peek inside the mind of a self-centered, uncaring monster. What can one say to such a person? Maybe, ” I am grateful to have g-dly parents who would never disown a child for being gay. They would rather disown community members who try to shame their kids”. Ann Coulter needs to repent of her wicked ways while she still can.
I should point out, this doesn’t have the blue “verified” check mark next to the handle. So it’s entirely possible this is a fake account.
That said, it’s much too close to what some people actually think for my liking.
About forty percent of America’s under-eighteen homeless population will express shock at there being a specific day.
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I’m sorry, all I got out of that tweet was “MOOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.”
The reincarnation of Ayn Rand.
Actually, I suspect Ayn Rand would probably not have had a particularly virulent homophobic bent from what I know of her philosophy. Probably far more libertarian (she was an avowed atheist). Ayn Rand may not have been the most compassionate person, but I doubt she would have been trying to interfere with the happiness and self-determination of others.
Ann Coulter however is greed and self promotion personified. A truly despicable individual that fits the stereotype of a demonizing republicon hypocrite to the tee.
Ayn Rand was an all around b***h and moral failure in most respects. When asked about rights for gay people, she reponded that she found us disgusting and abnormal, but, that even the vile disgusting and abnormal (such a class act she was) deserve some rights.
Says a lot when a woman who saw selfishness as a good trait, was unfaithful to her own spouse, and lived life mistakingly thinking she was a writer and philosopher of the first order is STILL (somewhat) better than Coulter. Only possible with the bar soooooooo low.
Ayn Rand had very negative views toward homosexuality. As far as public policy she thought we shouldn’t be descriminated against by govt. but she was okay with private corporations discriminating against us.
First mocking Mr. Specter’s death, and now this? The Coultergeist doesn’t waste any time digging her ghoul self deeper, does she?
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I’m already old, so I won’t have the pleasure of hearing about Ann Coulter after she’s washed up and lonely, but still muttering about liberals, and drooling in a nursing home where she adds to the staff’s irritation by insisting they stuff her into a black cocktail dress every day.
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[...] I and many others were so upset by Ann Coulter’s tasteless comments last week in which she mocked the family rejection of LGBT people is because often, when LGBT teens are rejected by their [...]