(07-21-2019 11:26 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-21-2019 11:23 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-21-2019 11:16 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-21-2019 10:50 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(07-21-2019 07:18 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  The fact that you think it's arrogant or smug, is just mind boggling, because I explicitly shared how I did not come from a community like OO's. I would have much rather not dealt with the blatant homophobic issues I did growing up in high school.

WTF does your experience in HS have to do with the smug, arrogant, condescending tone of your, "Good boy, Fido," comments now? I'm trying very hard to establish whatever connection you are trying to make and the penny isn't dropping.

Are you saying that it's OK for you to be smug, arrogant, and condescending now because your life sucked back then?

Since as I indicated, I belonged to a church youth group with an out gay VP, and part of a statewide youth council with a black VP, do I get a pat on the head and a, "Good boy, Fido," too?

I think I have an idea of what you may be trying to say. But the words and expressions you are using don't get you there, so I'm not sure.

Just like OO doesn’t get a pat on the back, you don’t either. But given the year, it was quite progressive (in a non political sense) that a church group, no less, had an openly gay man in a position of leadership. Even the *** **** Boy Scouts didn’t allow that into the 2010s.

Why do you get so worked up over commenting that a community or group treated a group that wasn’t treated well, well?

I brought up my personal experience to explain why I felt it OO’s experience was noteworthy - because it stood in contrast to mine, 40 years later. And the fact that I had the experience I did makes it a bit hard to be smug - I’m not sure how you get that I’m being smug when I didn’t come from a high school that was holier than though and could look down on anyone. I would have had to go to a really open, and tolerant school to have been in a position to be smug.

And my life didn’t suck, I just saw and dealt with blatant homophobia and thought it was the norm. Maybe that helps to explain why I gave OO’s school some props.

Anyways, this thread is beyond tedious - have fun trying to belittle others for trying to say something kind.

I didn’t say church group, and I didn’t say he was in a leadership position.

He was a member.

It was not a church group.

That was in reference to Owl#’s comment. See the text I responded to.