Comments on: It sure sucks to work for Chick-fil-A when you're gay

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:39:00 +0000

The filter snags it automatically.

By: Little John

Little John — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:31:00 +0000

Sorry about requiring the comment-approval and asteriskification steps by using the f-word above. I’d forgotten it was against the moderation policy.

By: Little John

Little John — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:02:00 +0000

I’d be amazed. I believe today’s “it sure sucks that…” follows from usages like “Cleveland sucks” and “algebra sucks”, ultimately from “you suck”, a middle-school variant of “you f****t” (and arguably slightly cleaner than “you suck cock”, “you suck balls”, “you suck ass”, etc.

And your “sucking eggs” suggestion doesn’t explain the equivalent expression “that really blows” (“the cafeteria blows”, “Ford blows”, “Cleveland really blows”).

There’s also “that bites”, which I think comes from the same pile of homophobic insults, although it at least makes some sense as something you (probably) wouldn’t want to experience.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:25:00 +0000

I was spot on. In that situation the bosses get off scot free, in this one it’s the reverse, and both feature examples of entitlement. My defense of working people only seems “obsessive” because it’s such a regular (obsessive) topic here, and I’m one of the few who isn’t condemning an entire group of thousands of working people as ignorant, perverted scum, which are the usual epithets that are freely thrown around anytime even remotely related (or not) to the subject comes up. Anyway, I know mentioning the entitlement I see in much of this is ‘verboten’ so I’ll say no more about it.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:05:00 +0000

I’ll also remember this the next time there’s a Boing Boing article that blanketly insults and vilifies all TSA workers.

I wondered how long it would take for you to get around to your obsessive defense of TSA workers. But you’ve made a false equivalency; Chik-Fil-A workers are cooking and selling food, not fisting old ladies in public.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:54:00 +0000

I think that it may come from ‘sucking eggs’ or ‘sucking up’ rather than from ‘sucking cock’.

By: Elliott Frodahl

Elliott Frodahl — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Yes, and when they decide to use their funding to influence what those schools teach, will it be OK?

By: mostlydigital

mostlydigital — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Do they discriminate? Heck, no. They’ll take anyone’s money.

By: mostlydigital

mostlydigital — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:55:00 +0000

One man’s fish is another man’s poisson.

By: Little John

Little John — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:22:00 +0000

If we lay them off, how can they get by, especially “in a horrible job market”?

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:28:00 +0000

They’re getting it from both sides: the icky customers who thank them for hating gays, and the entitled jerk protesters who assume the same.

Somebody else mentioned in the other Chik-Fil-A piece on Boing Boing about the kissing day that we should lay off the employees, and I couldn’t agree more. They’re just trying to get by any way they can, and on low wages in a horrible job market. I’ll also remember this the next time there’s a Boing Boing article that blanketly insults and vilifies all TSA workers.

By: Little John

Little John — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:22:00 +0000

Speaking of homophobia:

It sure sucks that we so avidly use “sucks” to describe something awful or unsatisfying. I wish it weren’t too late to revert that nasty little linguistic development.

By: Little John

Little John — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:16:00 +0000

You’ve said a mouthful, Brother!

By: gabichi23

gabichi23 — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:00:00 +0000

You have sources of information that are not available to the rest of us

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:46:00 +0000

Considering that they’re in the business of peddling fried chicken, this is all very unusual if you ask me.

What’s the Colonels position on homosexuals I wonder?

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:36:00 +0000

I’d say it’s on display in all classes of society.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:35:00 +0000

Coincidentally, some of the groups that they donate to devote much of their time to spreading lies and false propaganda that paints gays as out of control pedophiles preying on children, propaganda that’s almost certainly ginning up strong feelings of hate towards gays, which of course often lead to violence, suicide etc… These of course are not “opinions”, they are lies and propaganda, and in a number of countries they are outlawed as inciting hatred.

Switch out “homosexuals” below with ‘blacks’, ‘latinos’, ‘asians. etc.. Why is this tolerated?

“One of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order.”

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/family-research-council

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:34:00 +0000

I support Mussolini because he got the trains running on schedule.

By: mypalmike

mypalmike — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:51:00 +0000

Homophobia is pretty rampant in the work environments of most low-paying retail jobs, and not just in the South.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:02:00 +0000

“And this whole debacle has made me feel less safe, for some reason. And less welcome in my own country.”

Unfortunately, I suspect that the response on the part of those responsible would be ‘Mission Accomplished!’

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:53:00 +0000

Won’t someone think of the chicken-hawks!?

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:52:00 +0000

Won’t someone think of the chickens!?

By: Jim Nelson

Jim Nelson — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:40:00 +0000

Ah, the South. Where living in the closet seems like such a good idea, sometimes, because of exactly the kind of bigoted horseshit that was in that article.

It’s just depressing, seeing the sheer amount of petty, small-minded hatefulness that people who are NOT AFFECTED IN ANY WAY by other people’s marriage spew. It’s not exactly the civil rights movement (the cops are neutral, for instance, instead of using dogs and fire hoses) but the verbal viciousness from the defenders of the status quo is the same.

One of the reasons I don’t live in the suburbs, I think.

And this whole debacle has made me feel less safe, for some reason. And less welcome in my own country.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:01:00 +0000

Won’t somebody think of the children!

You do know that ‘chicken’ is a slang term for youthful sexual partners?

By: darkjayson

darkjayson — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:28:00 +0000

Na god exists it us who are just sims in his giant supercomputer, why else would we find our self’s sometimes locked in our houses with broken toilets and the place on fire?

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:03:00 +0000

Won’t somebody think of the children!

By: gabichi23

gabichi23 — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:48:00 +0000

Here we go again with the religious lunatics that think god hates homos, he she or it lol wouldnt be so stupid as to create something and then later on hate it LOL!
Of course the whole concept of a god is a ridiculous one :)
Only arrogant people think god Exists :p

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:12:00 +0000

General Homophobia? Is that a new character of Sheep in the Big City?

By: Geoduck

Geoduck — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:49:00 +0000

It isn’t “one person’s opinion”. They are actively contributing money to homophobic organizations.

By: Kevin Cotton

Kevin Cotton — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:08:00 +0000

I support Chik-fil-a’s choice to ‘support our schools.’ I do not support their choice to be bigoted. I think that I WILL ‘support our schools’ and leave the bigots out of the equation.