PDA Double Standard at the Old Ball Game
A lesbian couple was booted from a Seattle Mariners game because some squirmy patrons complained to the homophobic staff about the couple kissing. Or, a lesbian couple was booted from a Seattle Mariners game because, after being asked to "tone done" their "groping" and "making out," they became verbally abusive to the staff.
It would be easier to believe the Mariners' version of events had the seating host not told one of the women, "There's children in the crowd. It's not fair for parents to have to explain to their kids why two women are kissing."
Of course, that's if you believe the lesbian. In this case of lesbian-said, Corporate Spokesperson-said, I'm going to go with: we all know hetero and homo Public Displays of Affection are treated differently. Personally, I'm pro-PDA regardless of orientation or even attractiveness, but however you feel about that issue (and hopefully it's not as polarizing as flip-flops), I think we've all heard this tired whine before: we shouldn't have to explain your gayness to our kids. I'm calling bullshit on the Mariners.
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As for a lesbian who went to FSU, as those girls pictured, I think that picture rocks. Even though I'm sure they're straight. Most the girls I kissed at FSU were too.
And as for the PDA, how often do you see other (straight, usually young) people all over each other in public and no one says anything. All the time. I thinks its less gender based and more of the hormonal young variety that gets people to be more frisky in public places. Hell the first time I kissed someone was in public behind the bleachers.
Sorry to say it straight people, you are just uncomfortable with it. Let's just call a spade a spade.
I read somewhere that the ladies claimed that their PDA was pretty light, and cited the fact that they had been eating garlic fries as evidence that they weren't getting "hot and heavy" in the bleachers.
call me a prude, but i don't think anyone, straight or gay, has a right to make out or be all up on each other in public.
I think it's a question of whose side of the story you want to believe. I'm not anti-PDA of the hand holding/peck on the cheek variety, so if the reaction was due to light displays of affection by the couple, I kind of have to call bullshit. Furthermore, if that type of behavior is inappropriate in a 'family environment' why the kiss cams used as part of between gameplay entertainment at sporting venues?
even though i'm not a big fan, i'm way more for pdaing if it's sucking face and not snuggling. ohmygod, public snugglers make me ill.
Well, my personal perspective as far as what PDA is tolerable is sort of beside the point. I think my point was, if they were doing nothing more than what most straight couples do in public, why the reaction? Especially when these venues actually encourage it.
Essentially, it would be highly hypocritical for an usher to tell them to stop kissing if they're willing to display straight couples engaging in the same behavior at the game up on the Jumbotron. That just reeks of major hypocrisy. If they're going to apply a moral standard of behavior and conduct then they need to apply it across the board.
The day the majority of lesbians resemble the two pictured, is the day that lesbonic PDAs will be accepted by heteronormative society.
Scratch that... the day that there are even a few lesbians who resemble the two in the pic, is the day that such PDAs will be welcomed by heteronormative society.
That's right laydeez... time to ditch the pants suits & hit the gym if you wanna cuddle in public.
Umm, cuffshark? You need to turn up your gaydar honey, there are plenty of hot femme lesbians and bi women out there. People like you just assume they're straight.
But seriously, the only person you need to look attractive to is the person you are/want to be sleeping with. Who cares what the people watching think about your attractiveness/anorexia level? The fact that some gays try to impose those standards on people is one of my main beefs with mainstream gay culture.
Bottom line: if they get to kiss, so do we. And I think that corporate mouthpiece needs to apologize for slandering those two women on top of aiding and abetting discrimination against them.
Let me put it this way, dollface. I have many a lesbian friend, and not a single one of them would be fit for mass consumption. Sure... each of them has their own "special" beauty, but I will never understand the need to dress down or forego titslings. To be honest, I get thoroughly grossed out when I see my lesbonically inclined friends getting touchy-feely with each other. It has nothing to do with the sexuality side of things, but rather that I just don't want my mind to wander to the bedroom. Pure nastiness. It's like watching walruses fight/fuck/groom... or whatever it is walruses do.
Bottom line: All I'm asking for is a little bit of self-awareness and pride in one's appearance. And I don't mean pants suits and Lisa Loeb glasses... that doesn't count.
Wow- Cuffshark wins the prize for least sensitive TNG comment ever.
wait - cuffshark, youz a boy or girl?
Wait, a gay man who thinks lesbians are unattractive? Stop the presses. I sure get tired of these casual insults. People present themselves in a way to attract the people they want to attract, not for people they don't. It's pretty simple.
sooo, that mama's family costume you were wearin this weekend? man, you really are in a relationship. jk ;)
Case in point. I was looking for a GILF.
http://www.jennymiller.com/images/2008/campin-107.jpg
FOLKS!!! are we aware that this particular lesboriffic Mariners fan was none other than SIRBRINA from the current season of TILA TEQUILA?????! Holy Hell, the plot thickens!
No way! Link, please.
The Link.
wow. the one on the left is HOT.
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