High school "acceptance week"

[Vince30]

I said I thought it was unnecessary, but she said she doesn't believe in gay rights. I might be crazy but that sounds intolerant.

[Farbin Kaiber]

[Scene: Madison Square Garden, Duncan's dressing room. Phoebe is fixing her hair and Duncan enters.]

Phoebe: So um, so what's up, you came to see me yesterday.

Duncan: Oh, yeah, um, alright, I kinda need a divorce.

Phoebe: Ohh. . .K. How come?

Duncan: Umm, actually, I'm getting married again.

Phoebe: What?

Duncan: Oh God, I don't know how to tell you this. I'm straight.

Phoebe: Huuh.

Duncan: Yeah, I know, I.

Phoebe: I, I don't, I don't understand, how can you be straight? I mean, you're, you're so smart and funny and you throw such great Academy Award parties.

Duncan: I know, that's what I kept telling myself but you just reach a point where you can't live a lie anymore.

Phoebe: So how long have you known?

Duncan: Well I guess on some level I always knew I was straight. I though I was supposed to be something else, you know, I'm an ice dancer, all my friends are gay, I was just tryin' to fit in.

Phoebe: And um, and there's actually a, a woman?

Duncan: Her name's Debra.

Phoebe: Oh. Well is she, is she the first that you've been with?

Duncan: Well, I've never told you this but, there were one or two times, back in college, when I'd get really drunk, go to a straight bar and wake up with a woman next to me. But I, I, I told myself it was the liquor and e-everyone experiments in college.

Phoebe: Sure.

Duncan: But now I know I don't have a choice about this, I was born this way.

Phoebe: I, I don't know what to say. I mean, you know, you're married to someone for six years and you think you know him and then one day says, 'Oh, I'm not gay.'

Duncan: I'm, I'm still me.

Phoebe: Why couldn't you have just figured this out six years ago?

Phoebe: So, um, have you told your parents?

Duncan: No, but it'll be OK, they're pretty cool, my brother's straight so. . .

Phoebe: (handing him the papers) Here you go. You know what, I just have one more question, um, if you had figured this out sooner and um, I had been around, do you think that I would have been the one who. . . no, um, I'm sorry, don't tell me, I don't think either answer would make me feel better.

Duncan: I love you Phoebe. (they hug and kiss)

Phoebe: So your brother's straigh huh? Seriously.

[pureaudio]

People need to realize that tolerance does not go hand in hand with acceptance. Nobody has to accept your beliefs as their own.

[Ryan Stewart]

I said I thought it was unnecessary, but she said she doesn't believe in gay rights. I might be crazy but that sounds intolerant.

Or illiterate. Where did she state, in your example, she doesnt believe in gay rights?

[ronaldodm123]

Nobody has to accept your beliefs as their own.

[mrsleeve]

People need to realize that tolerance does not go hand in hand with acceptance. Nobody has to accept your beliefs as their own.

I was just going to post this


Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

[e30e]

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Boom

[Farbin Kaiber]

There are a lot of people in the world that would want you to think tolerance = acceptance.

[Eecen]

Great episode.

[shiftbmw]

Wait, OP, did you just seriously post a facebook conversation between your friends...on r3vlimited... and then proceed to ask for our opinion on the matter? Usually things like this don't end well.

PS, the chick is right.

[BMWerke]

i dont get whats so cool about being gay anway, puttin stuff in ur dumper? ehh. But on a more serious note the girl is right.

[Kershaw]

so, some people are angry because 1 week of the year was devoted to gay awareness...

when the other 51 weeks of the year are devoted to heterosexual couples? all the mainstream holidays, movies, commercials, etc show a guy and a girl constantly....

the chick is very narrow sighted. she cant see that rest of the year IS straight awareness. if you cant see that...

lol...

its like having a black history month and being upset that there isnt a white history month. oh wait, oops, the other 11 months of the year ARE white history month.

[ck_taft325is]

so, some people are angry because 1 week of the year was devoted to gay awareness...

when the other 51 weeks of the year are devoted to heterosexual couples? all the mainstream holidays, movies, commercials, etc show a guy and a girl constantly....

the chick is very narrow sighted. she cant see that rest of the year IS straight awareness. if you cant see that...

lol...

its like having a black history month and being upset that there isnt a white history month. oh wait, oops, the other 11 months of the year ARE white history month.

So your premise here is that unless publically recognized by an entire segment, group, nation, ect, of people it's exactly the "opposit" all the rest of the time? Any minority should feel offended and outraged that the rest of the population or the majority in this case is exactly that? The majority? Stupidly put together mentality that one.

Again, who fucking cares where you stick your dick or smash your vagina? Neither should be flaunted at school for any reason.

Your argument devolves into "just BEING hetero sexual is anti homo sexual!"

Grow the fuck up.

[Kershaw]

a marginalized (and often abused) minority wants a little recognition and tolerance and you think that's wrong?

and i'm the one that is supposed to grow up?

see, i wouldnt give a shit about this if it werent for all the fucktards running around saying all homosexuals are going to burn in hell.

if being gay was no big deal in our society, there wouldnt be a need for this. if someone could come out and say, "hey, i am gay." and everyone would be like, "cool story, bro." then there wouldnt be an issue.

but the fact is, that is not the case.

[Vince30]

White awareness for acceptance week. I am sick of being discriminated for being rich and white. Its about time I stand up for myself. I'm going to make a tshirt expressing how I feel.