Homosexuals holding hands in public.

I totally agree Loonsounds!!

Loons from what I remember in past comments, Diana has told us she is is not straight, so I think that was her (her in internetland) take…her reality so to speak. Hopefully I’m not wrong in my recall of this.
It is taboo insofar that people in my city, with a large gay population are still being being shitkicked because they are gay. Horrible, but true. And I look forward to the day that no one blinks.

Kashmiri, you are correct. And yes, it happens all the time. I don’t know what’s wrong with people. Obviously it’s okay for us to sell serial killer trading cards to children, but it’s not okay for them to be exposed to homosexuality. For example, if a straight couple is making out in the middle of the street, it’s bad, but not horrible. If a homosexual couple does the same thing then it’s just FREAKING disgusting, rude, disturbing, and WRONG. I’ve had families come up to me asking me how do I explain two women kissing to my children? Mind you, I’m not very big on PDA, so a tap kiss was sufficient enough for me to get this type of response. As a person that grew up in a big city where absolutely nobody was singled out, I have a very hard time dealing with small-minded people.

Sorry I read you wrong Diana, I can’t keep up with most people on this blog or what they stand for and so on. Once I realized that a lot of people are always changing their screen names, (and, given that I am not necessarily an every day reader), I pretty much gave up trying to really get to know people individually. So, once again, I do apologize!

I don’t know what to think of the Cayley doll, I mean how does the parent explain this doll to the kid they (presumably) buy it for? “The little girl represented by this doll got murdered, probably by her own mommy, and then stuffed in some kind of wet cold place to rot, and not because she did anything wrong at all.” What’s the kid you give this doll to going to learn? I would think it would be a nightmare inducing doll, why would anyone get this for their kid? Or else something for budding sociopaths to practice sticking pins into and smacking around.

I mean, maybe if the kid represented by the cayley doll did something stupid and got murdered as a result of getting in a car with a stranger, at least there might be some kind of learning point, but still, a doll representing a dead baby is morbid. Kids are going to be exposed to plenty of morbid anyway, why add to it, that’s my view…

I wouldn’t really blame the people who market it (people sell whatever they can) so much as I would have to wonder about any parent or anyone who would actually buy it for their kid.

Maybe this doll is designed primarily for those people who collect hundreds of dolls and stick them in glass cabinets in their living room, where they all sit and stand with their staring eyes anytime you walk into the room… but it always scares me to be in those kind of living rooms anyway; it’s like, surreal and feels like I am about to be in a horror movie any second (please, no offense to people who collect dolls, it just ain’t my thing.)