The Avengers!

[Titus2woman]

Originally Posted by AncientPaths

I'll respond in more detail when I'm not using my phone, but I did want to ask what your response would be (if you were hosting, for instance) if a coworker brought their gay partner to the company Christmas party, and why? "You don't belong here, Go home", "please wait outside", "you're going to hell"?

What is the appropriate response?

Easy. I do not invite gay couples to things I am hosting. Its just too complicated. In the case of our company Christmas party I did not give enough information. Spouses are not allowed to attend yet our gay doc skirts that every year and brings her gay partner. No one feels they can say anything because it will be percieved as gay bashing rather than just enforcing the 'employee only' rule. It is a very 'in your face' kind of thing. While I don't believe that anyone should be mean to a gay person, I was simply using the example to point out that not only does the one bringing the partner feel nothing at flaunting their gayness to everyone... but no one else feels that they can be anything but accepting even those who really are bothered by the smoochie gay stuff.

I was strictly using this example to point to the shift in sociatial norms but it appears that even you want to hint that I might be a homophobe, lol!.

Let's look at a few more examples:

Recently I have seen:

Cocktail dresses worn to a funeral.

A Margarita machine brought in to a minors birthday party.

Large numbers of people on public assistance for long periods of time with no shame over it whatsoever. We recently delivered the 8th child of a medicaid mother.

People openly discussing how to steal from the government via disaster relief with no one speaking that it might be a.illegal b.morally wrong.

More mothers with baby-daddies than husbands. More baby-daddies who are on their 2nd, 3rd, 4th and more women that they have a child/children with.

Every wedding shower I have been invited to in the last year was for a couple that was already living together. Most of the baby showers were for unwed mothers (we don't even call them that anymore because they are the norm).

But the point is that very few people even notice that these things are out of place. There has been an undeniable shift and not for the good in my opinion.

Oh and just to stay on topic I will repeat... AND I BELIEVE THAT RAUNCHY TELEVISION AND MOVIES ARE AT LEAST PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT.