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"Gay Cure" Advert Banned
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/...gland-london-17693947
what's left me utterly incomprehending is that tfl waited until the complaints started before pulling the ad. Did they really not think that offence might be taken?
what's left me utterly incomprehending is that tfl waited until the complaints started before pulling the ad. Did they really not think that offence might be taken?
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Sorry, those that think this is suggesting that homosexuality can be cured are ignorant of the meaning of the phase '' Get over it ''
It is saying that you should just accept that some people are Gay and get on with your own life.
There was an identical slogan in support of the right to smoke in public when the smoking ban was being discussed. It had a photo of a large and agressive looking man with the slogan '' I smoke , get over it !''
The phase ''get over it'' means to just accept what we are saying/ want and leave us alone.
If the adverts had been promoted by the Catholic Church or an 'anti-gay' organisation I could understand the ban, but it was promoted by 'Stonewall ' a well known, veteran and provocative campaigner for 'Gay Rights'
It is saying that you should just accept that some people are Gay and get on with your own life.
There was an identical slogan in support of the right to smoke in public when the smoking ban was being discussed. It had a photo of a large and agressive looking man with the slogan '' I smoke , get over it !''
The phase ''get over it'' means to just accept what we are saying/ want and leave us alone.
If the adverts had been promoted by the Catholic Church or an 'anti-gay' organisation I could understand the ban, but it was promoted by 'Stonewall ' a well known, veteran and provocative campaigner for 'Gay Rights'
@Eddie
Not sure thats quite right eddie. Latest adverts, the ones banned, did indeed come from a religious group, and did indeed suggest that gayness was a disease to be cured. What they did was to use the tone of a recent Stonewall advert - at least, according to this article...
http://www.rte.ie/new...rom-london-buses.html
Not sure thats quite right eddie. Latest adverts, the ones banned, did indeed come from a religious group, and did indeed suggest that gayness was a disease to be cured. What they did was to use the tone of a recent Stonewall advert - at least, according to this article...
http://www.rte.ie/new...rom-london-buses.html
As I said in the previous thread,the belief that 'conversion therapy' is a science, or that it consistently works, is quite simply an invalid opinion. It is not supported by any credible shred of evidence, it has a thinly-veiled religious agenda, and it has been discredited about as thoroughly as any quack science. Freedom of speech is all well and good, but don't forget that it serves as a means to an end. Freedom of speech best allows us to root out bad ideas by challenging them. 'Conversion therapy' is one such idea that by any rational criterion has been utterly defeated. So on those grounds I find this decision quite appropriate.
To answer your question, mushroom, I imagine the people behind these adverts believe they are doing some form of greater good work, and therefore don't particularly care about offense. For them, what they're doing is to the benefit of humanity - a delusion which makes them rather immune to any form of scrutiny from others. So I doubt the problem of 'offence' really occurred to them.
To answer your question, mushroom, I imagine the people behind these adverts believe they are doing some form of greater good work, and therefore don't particularly care about offense. For them, what they're doing is to the benefit of humanity - a delusion which makes them rather immune to any form of scrutiny from others. So I doubt the problem of 'offence' really occurred to them.
I have no problem with gays or any other people who are different. I smoke not a great deal, but when I stand on my own, away from everyone some jerk approaches me to object to my smoking. My answer when I'm pain free is "You came in to my space. I didn't encroach in to yours". When I'm in pain it's F Off.
mushroom25
And talk about bad timing!!!
http://www.nydailynew...apy-article-1.1060226
Gay people who subject themselves to 'curative therapy' are still gay, but they're suppressing their sexuality.
The Christian Right seem to be equating homosexuality with alcoholism..."take these 12 steps and you will never drink again".
But the mistake is viewing homosexuality as a curable disease.
And talk about bad timing!!!
http://www.nydailynew...apy-article-1.1060226
Gay people who subject themselves to 'curative therapy' are still gay, but they're suppressing their sexuality.
The Christian Right seem to be equating homosexuality with alcoholism..."take these 12 steps and you will never drink again".
But the mistake is viewing homosexuality as a curable disease.
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