Gay media giant Window Media may want to siphon some of its NY Press earnings into a legal fund.
In addition to the go-go lawsuit against New York fag rag, HX, Window Media faces a number of other litigious dramas.
The most juicy story, however, stems from a suits against Atlanta-based gay newspaper Southern Voice.
Former account executive Shannon Holding has lodged an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against SoVo. Holding holds that her coworkers discriminated against her gender, offended her sexual sensibilities and engaged in unprofessional behavior, like crotch grabbing.
Gay City News‘ Duncan Osborne provides the legal details:
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The complaint charges two types of discrimination. Holding was denied job opportunities because she is female and she experienced a hostile work environment in that she was “subjected to a constant barrage of graphic sexual language and conduct involving gay male sex.
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“Numerous male employees and managers of Defendant discussed in graphic terms oral and anal sex with other men; displayed pictures of men with erect penises on their computers; and, in general, treated the workplace as a place to discuss and engage in gay male sex.”
Holding also alleges that Southern Voice editor Matthew A. Hennie frequently fondled a coworkers crotch “in her full view”. Sounds like quite an eyeful.
Holding isn’t the first woman to lodge such a complaint against Southern Voice. Former employee Christine Solly raised an EEOC flag back in 2005. A Window Media lawyer subsequently interviewed Holding about her experience and Holding admitted to fearing “retaliation” GCN reports.
After that conversation, Holding charged that Steven Guerinni, the head of sales at Window, said the company “was looking for a way to get rid of Ms. Holding because women in general were liabilities.”
An account was taken away from her and she was told “she had no future with Window Media,” the complaint charged.
Well, to be fair to Window Media, one can pretty much expect sexual content at a gay publication. That’s not to say all gays are obsessed with sex, because they’re not, but, for better or for worse, sex remains a central component in gay (male) culture. We’re not saying Holding should be held accountable for putting herself in that situation, we’re also not convinced SoVo‘s entirely at fault in that respect.
As for the crotch grabbing…maybe the staffer had crabs??
Qjersey
Under the law, since she was not the target of any direct sexual harrassment…the behavior of the staff can only be deemed sexual harrassment IF Ms. Holding complained that such behavior made her uncomfortable and then it continued (of course she’ll need to prove this).
I have worked in mostly gay male environments…and it has been discussed…”what is not harrassment for us, may be to others.” That said…the straight/bi women that I have worked with in mostly gay environments…were just as bad as the men in sex talk! The uptight women never lasted long, they left on their own without filing a “make me rich” lawsuit.
cjc
I might have stayed a journalist if my newsroom was more like this. Wait. Ew. Not with my 70-something year old editors. Yuck.
Paul Raposo
What the hell did she expect at a gay publication? Is she pissed because she was never part of the conversations? A lot of straight women get pissy when men don’t show any interest in them. This is why straight people shouldn’t be hired to work in gay environments. Unfortunately, there’s always one hiding in the wood pile.
cjc
She could have been lesbionic, Paul.
Paul Raposo
“She could have been lesbionic, Paul.”
She’s not lesbionic, she’s moronic. She what I did there? Clever, ‘eh?
Anywho, a lesbian wouldn’t go running to a lawyer, she’d go into that office and kick ass and bust heads. For an example of what straight women really think of gay men, look at some of the comments left on Gawker’s comments section regarding the McNally affair at the NY Times:
http://gawker.com/news/behind-the-rumors/the-times-gay-slur-incident-the-gays-mobilize-281250.php
The comments by ANDIAMTELLINGYOU, NYOBSERVER, SARAHHEARTBURN are indicative of straight women who want their gay men to be asexual stereotypes like Will Truman and not real human beings–or even real men.
Mr. B
What if it was a gay man who complained instead of a “pissy” straight woman? It doesn’t matter if she was straight, lesbian, or a bisexual polyamorist into leather. Suddenly it’s moronic for a person to not have to see his or her coworkers grabbing their crotches and overhear their discussions of fisting and cocksucking?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines sexual harassment as “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature…when…submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for employment decisions…or such conduct has the purpose or effect of…creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.” Watching porn, talking about one’s sex life, and making sexual comments in an office where everyone has to listen to/see what you’re doing or talking about is sexual harassment. Show me a company sexual harassment policy that doesn’t include shoving sex in other people’s faces and I’ll be flummoxed. Unless you’re working in a porn studio–and last I checked, Southern Voice is a gay NEWSPAPER, not an adult publication–you have the right to not be exposed to this stuff in the workplace.
I work for a company that deals with adult-oriented material. We have to talk about sex all the time, relative to our product. But we still have a very clear sexual harassment policy written in our constitution. I can talk about sex as it pertains to work. But I could also understand how walking up to my coworker–the same coworker who organized a really great workshop on BDSM at a recent conference, by the way–and telling her about the awesome rimjob I had last night could make her, well, uncomfortable.
Mr. B
The server burped in the middle of my last post, so part of it was lost.
I was going to say that it’s really far better form to first consult with HR about sexual harassment, and then one’s supervisor (unless said supervisor is the one doing the harassing), and then upper management and finally seeking legal help if nothing is done.
But my main disagreement with those crying homophobia against Ms. Holding? Claiming she’s suing for sexual harassment because she was bitter about not getting any of the sexual attention sounds a bit to me like saying some woman in another office should stop wearing such short skirts if she doesn’t want the guys catcalling and groping her.
Paul Raposo
“What if it was a gay man who complained instead of a ‘pissy’ straight woman?”
If it were you, Mr. B, it wouldn’t surprise me because you’re the pissyist person I’ve ever dealt with. The fact of the matter is we have no idea what her co-workers were discussing. So far we only have the complainant’s word. They may have been talking about fisting, or they may have been talking about something as tame as a date.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found in favour of a WOMAN who complained about SEXUAL HARASSMENT in the work place. Wow! Big shock there. I’ve owned three businesses, Mr B and I can count on one hand the number of cases where sexual harassment had actually taken place, but would need a few hands to count the number of frivolous complaints brought on by pissy women. One of which was against me. When she realized I was gay and not the least bit interested in her, she turned around and filed a grievance with her union saying I didn’t promote her because I’m gay and only favored men. And it was aways the same, find in my favour, or I’ll sue. Only in the America of 2007 could a woman sue for sexual harassment at the hands of gay men and actually be taken seriously.
I remember a story of a male college student filing a complain about his female professor constantly talking about sex in her class which had nothing to with sexuality and he was ridiculed, had his sexuality questioned–by the prof!–and his claim was rejected by the school. Yet, a female student filed a complaint about a male prof who showed some slides of old statues of naked Mayan gods and he was crucified as a perv and a monster. He taught art history.
What happened here is Ms. Holding was surrounded by gay men who weren’t eunuchs like the gays she saw on TV and in the movies and she wasn’t advancing as fast as SHE thought she should have, so she’s getting revenge. She’s using gay panic and the tired cries of harassment to get something for nothing.
The question remains, Mr. B, if SOVO was so offensive, why did she stay for 18 months? When I don’t like a place, I get up and go. Obviously it wasn’t as bad as she is claiming if she held out for a year and half. Either she is slow, or lying.
“I work for a company that deals with adult-oriented material.”
I find that odd, considering you’re such a stuck up prude.
“But I could also understand how walking up to my coworker–the same coworker who organized a really great workshop on BDSM at a recent conference, by the way–and telling her about the awesome rimjob I had last night could make her, well, uncomfortable.”
Uh…obviously your co-worker talked about sex and her private life at work, if you know she put together a BDSM workshop, that wasn’t part of her job. If her talking about whips and chains didn’t make you uncomfortable, why should your rim-job story faze her?
Paul Raposo
“saying some woman in another office
should stop wearing such short skirts if she doesn’t want the guys catcalling and groping her.”
Uh..yeah, I agree with that statement. An office is for office attire, not clubbing attire.
Gregoire
Unless your office is a club. Like Scores.
tvonthefritz
Paul,
I hope some lesbian nazi malcontent decides to rub a slippery wet vagina in your face on a daily basis. And then, let’s see you whine like a little bitch.
tvonthefritz
And another thing. If this was a heterosexually themed news organization and a gay male wasn’t allowed to advance, you’d be first in line to boohoo.
Emily Hands
I think she is going to teach that company a lesson. Gay men have no right to be overty sexual at work. I go with all of my gay friends to gay bars and people love me. I dance and drink and the strippers love me. But if I were to work with gay men they need to learn work is for work not for sex talk.
Mr. B
LOL. Tvonthefritz, you couldn’t be more right. Although he’d also be appalled at all the heteros talking about their sex lives and putting naked women on their wallpaper.
Emily, it’s not a gay issue. It’s about what’s appropriate for the workplace. Sex is great! It’s wonderful. It’s grand. But unless it’s the company product, employees have the right to not have it shoved under their noses. They go to work to pay the bills, not to watch porn.
Thanks for the value judgments, Paul. Right off target, per usual of late.
But since you must know, my coworker who gave the BDSM workshop is not a practitioner and never has been in her life. I should have been more specific–the workshop was about *writing* BDSM. She surveyed a bunch of readers and writers on their tastes and talked about popular elements of the genre. Very frank talk at times, but she wasn’t going on about how many fists she can take in this or that orifice, and she wasn’t grabbing her dick at anybody. Well, if she did, I missed it.
Nice try, though. But seriously, it does make me chuckle a little to hear you attempt to call me out when you yourself put the “pee” in pissy. Seriously, are only Canadians allowed to make snap judgments, sweeping generalizations, and bombastic declarations now? I guess I didn’t get the memo.
But you’re right about one thing, Paul–I can be a right bitch. Putting the “itch” in bitchy, one observation at a time.
cjc
In any case, a place of business is a place of business–not a place to be groping man parts. Unless that place is a porn studio or bathhouse.
Paul Raposo
tvonthefritz and Emily are perfect examples of women who think it’s their right, or “duty” to put gay men in our place. No one person has the right to dictate how a group should act, or function. Emily, if you don’t like how men are acting at your work place, then leave.
And further, Emily, just because you’re a faghag, doesn’t make you anymore open minded, or any less bigoted. Clearly from your comment, you’re just another of those women who expect gay men to act like the stereotypes you consider normal, but aren’t based on any reality. The moment we diverge from your interpretation of our lives, you get your panties in a bunch. And it doesn’t surprise me in the least that you’d side with Ms. Holding, since women who are 52% of the population, can’t stand being surrounded by the real minority that are homosexuals, so you lash out and try to make yourselves the victim.
tvonthefritz, if this were a case of a gay man feeling harassed at work, I would react the same way; I’d want both sides of the story before automatically siding with one person. Clearly you’re an angry–single and lonely–woman who hates the fact that there is a group of men not the least bit interested in what you have between your legs.
“Thanks for the value judgments”
You have no value to judge, Mr. B. The fact remains, your co-worker discussed sexual practices of a graphic nature that she had planned to pursue after work hours, while at work which belies your original statement that only shop talk takes place at work. And again, your obsession with fisting is bizarre. I’d suggest getting away from your computer and hitting the clubs more often. Clearly you need to get laid.
I may put the pee in pissy, but I sure as hell knocked the piss out of you and your banal arguments.
Paul Raposo
“a place of business is a place of business–not a place to be groping man parts”
We don’t know if that actually happened. So far, it’s just the word of a disgruntled ex-employee.
tvonthefritz
Actually, Paul, I’m a gay man. Sweeping generalizations are a hoot, ain’t it?
tvonthefritz
And actually my boyfriend is very interested in what’s between my legs. We had sex last night. But thanks again for partaking in stereotypical blather on the same level of a rabid right-winger.
Paul Raposo
“Actually, Paul, I’m a gay man.”
You’re an anonymous poster, so I have no idea who, or what you are. As far as sweeping generalizations, comparing lesbians to nazi’s was a doozy.
“And actually my boyfriend is very interested in what’s between my legs. We had sex last night.”
Your bf is either Helen Keller, or has intestinal fortitude the likes of which have never before been witnessed in any individual.
Either way, I’m sure all your little hags are proud of how they’re broken your spirit and molded you into something they’re proud of.
Mr. B
“You have no value to judge, Mr. B. The fact remains, your co-worker discussed sexual practices of a graphic nature that she had planned to pursue after work hours, while at work which belies your original statement that only shop talk takes place at work.”
…the heck? That seriously makes no sense. How did my coworker plan to pursue these practices after work hours? She was giving a workshop on BDSM writing at a conference our company was appearing at, because BDSM writing makes our company money. The people attending it weren’t attending it to whack off, they wanted to learn more about the genre. They were aspiring authors who paid serious money to get into the conference in the first place because they want to be better writers. That was work time–not recreational, not after hours. And, since you seem to be almost as bad at reading my comments as you are at rebutting them, I’ll say it again–she doesn’t practice BDSM outside of work. In fact, I happen to know (and before you start pointing and squawking, it’s because we’re friends and have discussed our sex lives ON OUR OWN TIME OUTSIDE OF WORK, rather than while standing over the receptionist’s desk) that she’s not sexually active at all, hasn’t been for quite some time, and isn’t really interested. But really, I don’t owe you this explanation because this is seriously one of the stupidest arguments Queerty has seen yet.
So let’s go back to the beginning, before the ridiculous tangents and the various attacks on my character began. (I didn’t realize that knowing what sexual harassment actually means and that companies have the right to set standards made me a prude. My bad.) My coworker doing the BDSM workshop=work-related. Someone watching porn at work in plain view, speakers on, and talking about his/her sex life for all to see is grounds for sexual harassment. This seems to astound you (seriously, are you even employed? By a company where you have to go work in an office with other people?), but the workplace has been defined as a place to do company-related business in a public venue. It’s about people’s basic right to work without hearing about sex all day, not oppressing someone else’s right to watch porn and share bull stories. That whole work life versus personal life thing–crazy, ain’t it? And soooo unjust.
Also, you seem to have a fervent interest in my sex life, but I can assure you that I’m getting laid quite regularly (and wonderfully), thank you. And my partner also happens to work with me. But somehow we don’t feel compelled to get freaky in the break room because we have plenty of time to do that at home. A novel idea, that.
In conclusion, Paul, you put the “anal” in banal.
tvonthefritz
Paul,
This is my last comment. Obviously, your individual case is now being coalsed into a vitrolic sweeping generalization of womankind. They deserve to be punished for their “sins” against you, their “transgressions.”
How fitting as a homosexual male I presume, that you take on the doctrine of the fundie Christians. That Eve’s fitting punishment, her sin against God, is a slick commeuppance on the rest of humankind. It’s convoluted logic, really, and you’ve adapted it into your own.
My spirit hasn’t been broken. As a homosexual, the lowest of the low in the cesspool of society, I feel obligated to respect the downtrodden. We don’t have the advantages of heterosexual white males. So in this disadvantaged state, I have found a communion with women, black folk, the treansgendered, poor and disenfrancished (sic). You, on the other hand, mimic the prejudices of a white heterosexual male society. You feel as by taking on their traits, equality can be achieved for homosexuals. It cannot.
Look at the example of Martin Luther King Jr. Was equality achieved by slighting the lesser individuals, the ragamuffins of our society?
Another thing. It seems to me, purely on assumptions, seeing as how I don’t know you, and what I do know is from diatribes on the Internet,that you feel as though your sexuality, your perversion has superseced your humanity. By such, you’ve turned into the worst stereotypes the religious right can fling our way.
How do you think that by fucking whoever you want and by snorting copious amounts of cocaine, the remaining 52 percent of Americans will ever believe in true equality for homosexuals? They will look to you and people of your ilk and see nothing more than their worst prejudices confirmed, and the true debate will never be moved. It will remain stagnant.
michaelmichaeldc
HER NAME IS SHARON HOLDING, NOT SHANNON. I KNOW HER AND USED TO WORK WITH WINDOW MEDIA.
Paul Raposo
“…the heck? That seriously makes no sense. How did my coworker plan to pursue these practices after work hours? She was giving a workshop on BDSM writing at a conference our company was appearing at, because BDSM writing makes our company money.”
Mr. B, you stated that at your adult oriented company, workers only discuss sex as it pertains to work. Then you stated that you wouldn’t walk up to a co-worker who was involved with BDSM and talk about getting fisted. I pointed out that the only way you knew that co-worker was putting together a “workshop” on BDSM was if she had talked about her after work sexual activities during work. Then you replied that she is not involved with BDSM and in fact was putting together a writing class about BDSM. And now it was a conference that your company was appearing at. What next, the “BDSM Follies” starring you and a cast of thousands? Only after I called you on it, did you state the co-worker is not into BDSM, that it was a writing class and that your company was involved in it and which is your company’s forte, apparently. If you’re confused, it’s because you didn’t provide all the facts in your argument, Mr. B.
“And, since you seem to be almost as bad at reading my comments as you are at rebutting them,”
Perhaps if you provide all the facts to your arguments, I will have a better chance of challenging them, Mr. B. Only after being put on the carpet, did you provide all the facts to your patently ridiculous first argument and BDSM and fisting stories.
“that she’s not sexually active at all, hasn’t been for quite some time, and isn’t really interested.”
Like I give a flying fuck, Mr. B.
“various attacks on my character began.”
You have no character to attack, Mr. B.
“(I didn’t realize that knowing what sexual harassment actually means and that companies have the right to set standards made me a prude. My bad.)”
What makes you a prude, is finding in favour of everyone and anyone but the LGBT community.
“My coworker doing the BDSM workshop=work-related.”
Which you’ve never explained until now.
“Someone watching porn at work in plain view, speakers on, and talking about his/her sex life for all to see is grounds for sexual harassment.”
Based on the accusation of two disgruntled ex-employees who are also women. One can make the assumption that it’s the workplace. But it can also be stated that it is the female employees–who are most likely straight, because I have yet to see a lesbian who gets pissy at gay men talking about sex–who obviously couldn’t do their jobs, so they’re lashing out at the company they worked for. It’s amazing that the Gay City News article went to great lengths to point out the sexuality and sexual activities of the company staff, but didn’t bother to point out the sexuality of the “victim.”
“This seems to astound you (seriously, are you even employed? By a company where you have to go work in an office with other people?),”
Not anymore. I closed down my last business years ago and work alone now because of shit like this. Dealing with whiny, lazy, grasping covetous people who want something for nothing was a headache. Now, I don’t have to listen to lame excuses, pathetic finger pointing, or deal with incompetence.
“but the workplace has been defined as a place to do company-related business in a public venue. It’s about people’s basic right to work without hearing about sex all day, not oppressing someone else’s right to watch porn and share bull stories.”
If Ms. Holding couldn’t take the heat, she should have gone home. Why should a company dynamic be changed because of a couple of whiny employees?
“That whole work life versus personal life thing–crazy, ain’t it? And soooo unjust.”
Obviously Ms. Holding has made this personal.
“Also, you seem to have a fervent interest in my sex life,”
The English language has yet to create a word to describe just how uninterested I am in your sex life, Mr. B. However, when you go on and on about fisting, I can’t help but be curious at your simultaneous disgust and interest in that particular activity.
“but I can assure you that I’m getting laid quite regularly (and wonderfully), thank you.”
Yeah, some guys will do anything–or anyone–while drunk.
“And my partner also happens to work with me.”
And has the patience of Job, no doubt.
“In conclusion, Paul, you put the ‘anal’ in banal.”
And you put the hack in hackneyed.
Paul Raposo
“This is my last comment.”
Thanks god for small miracles.
“Obviously, your individual case is now being coalsed into a vitrolic sweeping generalization of womankind. They deserve to be punished for their ‘sins’ against you, their ‘transgressions.’
Check out the armchair psychologist! What I’m railing against is people who don’t get their way, suing for the right to not have their feelings hurt. A person who who is so thin skinned, she’s trying to destroy a company, because all those terrible bad homosexuals made her uncomfortable. I’m tired of real minorities getting trampled by majorities who think they are victims, yet control the country with an iron fist. I’m tired of hags getting their panties in a bunch, because they don’t like how a group of gay men act.
“How fitting as a homosexual male I presume, that you take on the doctrine of the fundie Christians.”
That is your opinion, for what it’s worth. Care to hazard a guess of what it’s worth to me?
“That Eve’s fitting punishment, her sin against God, is a slick commeuppance on the rest of humankind. It’s convoluted logic, really, and you’ve adapted it into your own.”
What? Who’s going all Biblical now, douchebag?
“My spirit hasn’t been broken. As a homosexual, the lowest of the low in the cesspool of society, I feel obligated to respect the downtrodden.”
Ah! So as a victim, you align yourself with other self-perceived victims to feel good about yourself. You’re welcome to wallow in the cesspool, I’d rather stay up here on dry land.
“We don’t have the advantages of heterosexual white males.”
Or black males, or Asians males, or any other kind of heterosexual males.
“So in this disadvantaged state, I have found a communion with women,”
Why? Women are 52% of the population; run corporations; run nations; one is running for the presidency of the US; star on TV shows and make millions with movies and books. How exactly are we like women?
“black folk,”
Again, see above.
“the treansgendered,”
The only thing we agree on.
“poor and disenfrancished (sic).”
Many LGBTQ people are poor and disenfranchised. Unless you think straight poor people are somehow poorer than LGBTQ poor people.
“You, on the other hand, mimic the prejudices of a white heterosexual male society.”
Here we go.
“You feel as by taking on their traits, equality can be achieved for homosexuals. It cannot.”
I’d suggest you read some of my past comments to find out what I think of most hets. Who is making sweeping generalizations now?
“Look at the example of Martin Luther King Jr. Was equality achieved by slighting the lesser individuals, the ragamuffins of our society?”
Martin Luther King had no problem letting the man who co-wrote the I Have A Dream speech to step down because King was being blackmailed by racists because of the man’s sexuality. Clearly, he didn’t mind slighting a lesser individual to keep himself in the spotlight.
“Another thing. It seems to me, purely on assumptions, seeing as how I don’t know you, and what I do know is from diatribes on the Internet,that you feel as though your sexuality, your perversion has superseced your humanity.”
My perversion? Well, you’re the first gay man I’ve met who views gay sexuality as perversion. I guess your true colours a shining through now, asswipe. It’s funny, but right now you are the one acting like a conservative, religious, fundamentalist.
“By such, you’ve turned into the worst stereotypes the religious right can fling our way.”
Go hug a tree, you whining little bitch. People like you make me wretch. So busy bellyaching and crying for others, you have no time to live your own life and make something of yourself. You are the worst kind of progressive; the kind that will throw one minority under a bus to save the majority.
“How do you think that by fucking whoever you want and by snorting copious amounts of cocaine,”
More of your compassionate generalizations, I see. I’m wonder if Mr. B still supports your comments and finds pleasure in your post. I know Feed Phelps would love you–but not to marry.
“the remaining 52 percent of Americans will ever believe in true equality for homosexuals?”
Life is too short to worry about what others think about you. See, that’s the problem with America; the American dream is to become a little bit better than the next person and then shit all over that person. You are a shining example of this.
“They will look to you and people of your ilk and see nothing more than their worst prejudices confirmed, and the true debate will never be moved. It will remain stagnant.”
Drop dead, you het cunt. If I could care any less about you, you would actually cease to exist and fall into a void of non-existence. Trolling a gay blog making bullshit claims then getting your tampon wedged so tight that you lash out with the same type of stereotypes and generalizations you accuse others of participating in. You may not be conservative, or religious, but you are the worst type of bigot and phobe out there; the type who justifies their hate for one, with their concern for the other.
Paul Raposo
michaelmichaeldc, why don’t you give us your take on this?
tvonthefritz
You’re so classy, Paul.
Mr. B
…puts the “ass” in classy?
gh
I knew her too. She was an excellent sales rep and really cared about her gay friends. She CHOSE to work for a gay paper to support and represent the gay community in Atlanta, especially to the straight business owners out here. She was mistreated by management at Window Media…….plain and simple.
Most of us who work/worked there are still good friends with her.
Mr. B
And no, Paul darling, I don’t “find…favor of everyone and anyone but the LGBT community.” I just don’t go through life suspicious of and hateful toward everyone who’s not a member of it, and I a victim stance. It seems that moving to gay meccas gives people serious tunnel vision. But then, maybe they move there in the first place because they’ve been bashed enough times that their rage is permanent…I don’t know.
And I certainly don’t call people “het cunt,” or any kind of cunt for that matter, when they don’t join me in blanket misogyny. But that must be because I’m a straight-loving prude.
No, wait–because I spoke up in defense of a woman instead of “my people,” I must actually BE a woman. A woman who’s very bitter that her gay coworkers don’t want to sleep with her. And who is racist for not thinking all rap is crap. And who supports jihad. I’m the mole! They’ve found me.
I’m done troll-feeding. Because, really, that’s what this has become. So go ahead, Paul. Take that last word that you want so badly. I’m sure it will be something particularly meaningful, like “cunt.”
Paul Raposo
“You’re so classy, Paul.”
Let me guess, tvonthefritz, THAT was your last comment, right? Or maybe the next; or the next one, perhaps?
Paul Raposo
“I knew her too. She was an excellent sales rep and really cared about her gay friends.”
Oh! I’m sure she did. In fact, she probably had LOTS of gay friends. A plethora of gay friends, in fact. I like how you used the past tense of care.
“She CHOSE to work for a gay paper to support and represent the gay community in Atlanta, especially to the straight business owners out here.”
Of course. Nothing but altruism in her daily work. She’s the Moses of gay publications. Before Ms. Holding came along, no one in Atlanta even knew gay people existed.
“She was mistreated by management at Window Media…….plain and simple.”
So says a friend of the complainant.
“Most of us who work/worked there are still good friends with her.”
Yeah, you’ve got to hang around to see how her case comes out before filing your own frivolous lawsuit.
Paul Raposo
“…puts the ‘ass’ in classy?”
Ah, Mr. B, you’ve proven time and again that a half-wit is better than no wit at all.
gh
Wow Paul. You are incredibly bitter. Sad.
Paul Raposo
“And no, Paul darling, I don’t ‘find…favor of everyone and anyone but the LGBT community.'”
Sure ya do. If it’s gay, it’s suspect to you. If it’s anything but gay, you want to throw it a parade. But not a pride parade, that’s passe.
“I just don’t go through life suspicious of and hateful toward everyone who’s not a member of it, and I a victim stance.”
You give the benefit of the doubt to Muslims, homophobes and haters, yet question anything put forth by LGBTQ’s, Mr. B.
“It seems that moving to gay meccas gives people serious tunnel vision.”
And moving away from “gay meccas” gives people a myopic view of the community.
“But then, maybe they move there in the first place because they’ve been bashed enough times that their rage is permanent…I don’t know.”
Nor are you inquisitive enough to find out. Only the shallowest of personalities interests you and a cursory overview of the LGBTQ community is all you’re interested in, before running back to your safe and heteronormative world.
“And I certainly don’t call people ‘het c*nt,’ or any kind of cunt for that matter, when they don’t join me in blanket misogyny.”
Hmm…so now questioning a female’s claim that she was sexually harassed by homosexual men is misogynistic? I appreciate that Americans have trouble seeing past their genitalia, but c*nt was used in the UK sense, not the vaginal sense.
“But that must be because I’m a straight-loving prude.”
Most likely.
“No, wait–because I spoke up in defense of a woman instead of ‘my people,’ I must actually BE a woman.”
Who is going off on a tangent now, Mr. B?
“A woman who’s very bitter that her gay coworkers don’t want to sleep with her.”
It happens. If hags spent as much time trying to find their own bf, as they do trying to play house with gay men, they’d be a lot happier.
“And who is racist for not thinking all rap is crap.”
No. You’re willing to allow and excuse homophobia in rap. I don’t know what that makes you, but I wouldn’t want to be it.
“And who supports jihad.”
You support a religion that supports Jihad.
“I’m the mole! They’ve found me.”
Good. Now let’s bury you again.
“I’m done troll-feeding. Because, really, that’s what this has become.”
Here comes you wahmbulance, Mr. B.
“So go ahead, Paul. Take that last word that you want so badly.”
I already had it before you posted again. It’s apparent who is looking for the last word.
“I’m sure it will be something particularly meaningful, like ‘c*nt.'”
Might as well be, since you obviously haven’t any balls.
Paul Raposo
Well, I had a reply to your last comment, Mr. B, but the PAB’s won’t post it. So it looks like you got the last word. But of course, you were never after that.