Comments on: Letting Gays Plan Parnters’ Funerals Would Be Advocating Alternative Death-style http://www.queerty.com/letting-gays-plan-parnters-funerals-would-be-advocating-alternative-death-style-20091117/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:47:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dontblamemeivotedforhillary http://www.queerty.com/letting-gays-plan-parnters-funerals-would-be-advocating-alternative-death-style-20091117/#comment-237507 dontblamemeivotedforhillary Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:47:45 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=74837#comment-237507 Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow and John Stewart bring more people to our cause than Queerty. Colbert Nation is a fake right-wing pundit who points out hypocrisy of mostly Republicans by faking umbrage and undoing their fear-driven logic using highly-scripted satire of their ignorance, and obviously yours! Go back to school, Crystal Children of the Revolution! Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow and John Stewart bring more people to our cause than Queerty. Colbert Nation is a fake right-wing pundit who points out hypocrisy of mostly Republicans by faking umbrage and undoing their fear-driven logic using highly-scripted satire of their ignorance, and obviously yours! Go back to school, Crystal Children of the Revolution!

]]> By: B http://www.queerty.com/letting-gays-plan-parnters-funerals-would-be-advocating-alternative-death-style-20091117/#comment-237299 B Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:23:35 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=74837#comment-237299 In No 2 Name wrote, "It get what Colbert does, but does he have to pull out every gay stereotype to do it? That seems intellectually lazy." His audience is not "intellectual" - otherwise it wouldn't be on "Comedy Central". What he's doing is trotting out every gay stereotype to make those look ridiculous. The actual LGBT people he showed looked respectable and completely normal. Meanwhile any bigots watching it hear the audience laughing at how stupid the stereotypes are. Subconsciously, they are learning that the audience is actually laughing at them. In No 2 Name wrote, “It get what Colbert does, but does he have to pull out every gay stereotype to do it? That seems intellectually lazy.”

His audience is not “intellectual” – otherwise it wouldn’t be on
“Comedy Central”. What he’s doing is trotting out every gay stereotype to make those look ridiculous. The actual LGBT people he showed looked respectable and completely normal.

Meanwhile any bigots watching it hear the audience laughing at how stupid the stereotypes are. Subconsciously, they are learning that the audience is actually laughing at them.

]]> By: Name http://www.queerty.com/letting-gays-plan-parnters-funerals-would-be-advocating-alternative-death-style-20091117/#comment-237247 Name Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:50:11 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=74837#comment-237247 It get what Colbert does, but does he have to pull out every gay stereotype to do it? That seems intellectually lazy. It get what Colbert does, but does he have to pull out every gay stereotype to do it?

That seems intellectually lazy.

]]> By: hyhybt http://www.queerty.com/letting-gays-plan-parnters-funerals-would-be-advocating-alternative-death-style-20091117/#comment-237226 hyhybt Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:29:12 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=74837#comment-237226 A mid-sentence ending? A mid-sentence ending?

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