Barbarism begins at home
Homophobia among the under-16s is alive and well in Skipton, North Yorkshire. My partner is often abused on his way to the train station to go to work. The children who call him ‘dirty queer’, ‘fucking poof’ and other verbal slurry are not always, as conventional wider-ranging prejudices would have us believe, low-intelligence, low-opportunity chavs who are themselves maligned as ’scum’ and ‘dole scroungers’ and the like. No. They are invariably white from middle-class, middle-income, perceived as nice families. My partner is powerless to defend himself because these innocents are protected by law from being smacked around the head, and he doesn’t even answer them back because he rightly fears one of the spotty little hormonally-unbalanced ferals might pull a knife on him.
tags: bigotry, Blitz, children, civilisation, depression, dodos, hatred, heterosexism, homophobia, morality, prejudice, racism, recession, self-sufficiency, society, tantrums, upbringingHeinz needz ballz as well as beanz in dealing with homophobic activists
Just when many of us are despairing at our inability to change the ways in which big businesses conduct themselves, along comes the answer: never mind harping on about CO2 emissions, unnecessary packaging, and social responsibility—just grab yourself a modest 202 queer-hating people secretly working together in an unholy alliance, and you’ve got yourself enough people to make a difference, albeit a very negative one.
Heinz has withdrawn a television advertisement showing two men briefly kissing during a short scene that was intended to convey, in a light-hearted and humorous way, the somewhat fanciful notion that you could have yourself the equivalent of a New York deli chef in your kitchen by buying the company’s latest mayonnaise products. Gay rights organisation Stonewall is now urging supporters of equality and fairness for all to boycott Heinz. Quite right, too—and so the tin of Heinz Organic Baked Beans lurking in our own kitchen cupboard will be the last we buy until such time, if ever, that the company shows it has some balls as well as beans.
tags: activism, advertising, complaints, evangelicals, hatred, Heinz, homophobia, intolerance, media, militants
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