In Hollywood, nobody thinks you’re a big deal if you’re only famous in Canada. Until you’re Ryan Reynoldsized, you’re not important. But up north, you can still be a famous person, even if you’re celebrity hasn’t been exported. Now, if you’re a queer famous person? Well, good luck with maintaining a presence … outside the newly formed Canadian Queer Hall of Fame, of course.
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ThatguyFromBoston
I like how they’ve felt compelled to create a whole new classification of Canadians for us to ignore.
C 'eh N 'eh D 'eh
@ThatguyFromBoston:
Come on Boston, just because you’re Canada’s big bottom bitch doesn’t mean you have to act like a big girl.
Be proud of your CIVIL UNIONS, DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS and PROP 8!
Your racial disharmony!
Your Tea Baggers, Birthers, and 9/12’ers!
Be proud of your Free Speech zones!
Your stolen presidential elections!
Sky rocketing gun deaths!
Be Proud of Glenn Beck!
DOMA and DADT!
Be proud of Fox News!
47 million Americans without health care!
Your low literacy rate!
Be proud of spending TRILLIONS on killing Iraqis!
But not spending millions on insuring children!
And being 38th in world health care!
Be proud of your gay panic defense!
And Mormons!
And recognizing ex-gays as a protected class!
Be proud of your crumbling manufacturing sectors!
And dying automotive industry!
Be proud of your 72 million obese citizens!
Be proud of your shit-hole country and the people who dwell within it cuz it’ll be gone in 50 years!
kevinvancouver
I am certainly proud to not be that guy from Boston what a prick! lame lame and Americans can’t seem to get their little minds around the fact that they are disliked by a large majority of people and countries. I’m certain those Americans that don’t have tiny minds will respond in a more positive manner.
kevinvancouver
@C ‘eh N ‘eh D ‘eh: Brilliant!
Thom
^^^Ahh Canada, let your true colors fly^^^
What all that vitriolic garbage breaks down to is your fundamental need for others praise, and the belief that Canada is infinitely superior to the US, Canada is without a doubt more progressive and with less problems but you walk a dangerous line. Your obvious obsessive dislike blinds you to reality and creates a rather sad, unhealthy, and unnecessary hatred which so many of your countrymen are afflicted with.
So many times I have seen Canadians go absolutely nuts at the slightest criticism or mockery and begin spewing this xenophobic drivel.
C 'eh N 'eh D 'eh
@Thom:
^^^Ahh Canada, let your true colors fly^^^
Red and white, bitches! The True North, strong and free!
What all that vitriolic garbage breaks down to is your fundamental need for others praise,
No. What it breaks down to is the myth that America is the land of milk and honey; land of the free, home of the brave.
America is a ridiculous patch work of states beholden to a constitution that has been trod upon to the point that it is no longer recognizable. When your own government no longer respects the founding document of your country, it’ not surprising that it’s citizenry would follow suit.
It’s about pointing out that if America were one tenth the nation that Canada is, you would truly be a super-power. Currently you are merely a super-debter–owned by your lenders.
and the belief that Canada is infinitely superior to the US,
We are.
You’ll notice I never refer to you as the United States as you have, (the US,) Simply because you are not united.
As pointed out in my fist comment, we are superior on all fronts. The only thing America has going for it today is it’s military complex. But then again, the same holds true for North Korea, China and Russia. Not exactly a classy neighbourhood.
Canada is without a doubt more progressive and with less problems
No! Really?
but you walk a dangerous line.
Please elaborate.
Your obvious obsessive dislike blinds you to reality and creates a rather sad, unhealthy, and unnecessary hatred which so many of your countrymen are afflicted with.
Considering your countrymen are going to Town Hall meetings armed and your TV pundits are openly calling for an overthrowing of the government based solely on the race of your president; considering your tax payers are funding a never-ending war whose sole purpose was to wipe out as many brown people as possible; I seriously doubt you should be calling any other nation hateful.
Your country is based on the shedding of the blood of other races. The Mayas, Toltec, Aztecs, Incas; the Native Indians; African slaves. You country’s ground is soaked with the blood of millions of peoples and all you have to show for it is a McDonalds on every corner, gas guzzling SUV’s and an epidemic obesity rate.
You’ve been given so much and so many have died and you have squandered all your blessings. Whom should be viewed as the pathetic country, Thom?
So many times I have seen Canadians go absolutely nuts at the slightest criticism or mockery and begin spewing this xenophobic drivel.
America has set the standard.
However,
We cannot shed tears about rising xenophobia at a time when we open opportunities for a person, who is not restrained by any moral force, to ravage sacred places, spit on his fatherland, and destroy his culture. Such a person will go and kill someone else on the basis of race or faith. There is one single and indivisible morality.
–Metropolitan Kirill
Lastly, Thom, I notice your entire rebuttal was a harangue against my first comment. Not one correction; counter-argument, or proof that my points are wrong, or simply invalid. That’s the American way–attack, rather than debate.
strumpetwindsock
@ThatguyFromBoston:
You don’t know the half of it.
They didn’t even mention Quebec culture.
But I’m much happier being ignored by the U.S. than living in some poor country unfortunate enough to get your attention.
@Thom:
Almost all the Americans I have met are great, friendly, intelligent people, and in many ways you have a fine country. But you probably don’t appreciate what an arrogant, self-centred, disrespectful, bullying, and sometimes deadly place the U.S. can be to live next to.
And though I think C ‘eh N ‘eh D ‘eh was a bit over the top (funny though), and I could easily come up with a similar list of our crimes and shortcomings, it is pretty tame compared to the level of criticism levelled against other countries and cultures here on a regular basis (and I’m not just talking about Jamaica).
And it’s not like he opened the door. If you boys can dish it out like that, you should at least be able to take it.
But on the actual topic, I’m surprised it took this long to organize a hall of fame.
Chairman of Q Hall of Fame
Well, I am intrigued by the commentary on this site, also by the original comments made.
Firstly, the Hall of Fame has nothing to do with being famous – it is a commemoration of Canadian Pioneers in the fight for Human Rights for the GLBT community. Canada has a long standing history of being a leader in the world for human rights both at home and internationally. What we are doing is saying to the champions of our rights “Thank you, it is your hard work, pain, tears, drive, and dedication that gives us the freedoms we now have.” Freedoms that MOST of the world is painfully behind in granting.
That does not make us better than anyone else, it simply means that to live in Canada is to have freedom. We do not have an oppressive society, but rather one that supports and encourages diversity and recognizes the strength in that diversity. Our lives are not driven by religion, war, or the struggle for wealth – we are not expendable assets or toys for the use of government or religion. We are our own people. We are respected and, although it does not reflect in some peoples comments here, we respect others.
I truly wish that very soon the members of the GLBT community in the united states will have the joy of experiencing the same freedoms that we often take for granted – just as I wish that someday being in love with someone of the same sex does not mean the death penalty.
Rather than expend energy criticizing each others homeland, I believe that this energy would be better spent supporting each other, supporting our communities, and yes – recognizing those people who’s efforts over the past 50 or more years have given us the freedom and the luxury of being able to have this discussion in the first place.
strumpetwindsock
@Chairman of Q Hall of Fame:
Well said (though in terms of greed, war and religion I don’t think we’re all that different than Americans).
As I have written before, I think our marriage equality is in part a lucky accident. If the politicians had known what a bombshell Trudeau’s Charter of Rights was going to be instead of focusing on the constitution, they never would have passed it.
Anyway, I hope Timothy Findley, Svend Robinson, Glenn Murray and Rick Mercer are on the list.
strumpetwindsock
@Chairman of Q Hall of Fame:
… and Robert LePage and Michel Tremblay, of course.
See… we aren’t that much different when it comes to ignoring cultures that are out of our field of view.
Chairman of Q Hall of Fame
@strumpetwindsock:
Thank you for the suggestions, we will be considering all people that are put forth in the public nomination process (Scheduled to launch in November 2009).
Inductees into the Q Hall of Fame will be selected by an independent selection committee based on their contributions to the community.
Chairman of Q Hall of Fame
I am not sure if many will see this, but we are proud to announce the launch of our public nomination process. Please visit the website at: http://www.qhalloffame.ca for more details!
Lukas P.
@Chairman of Q HoF: Please keep us informed so we can see the next group of inductees.
The press here seems to have a blind spot when it comes to Canada. Were it not for the Olympics, we’d not be hearing much about our neighbors to the north.
I will admit that the watercooler discussions at work re: hockey and even curling have been a welcome change from the usual chitchat about American Idol and the Jersey Shore. I hope they subtitle the latter program for you if it’s shown there — the accent is almost inpenetrable for those of us here in Chicago!