why the current gay rights meme going around LJ can go away

[rm]

http://upstart-crow.livejournal.com/197606.html

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[bunnymasterg.livejournal.com]

I just posted the little quote cause I didn't like the meme part of it. hup hup.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm out of touch. What is this gay rights meme?

[tommx.livejournal.com]

never mind. Should have just read the linked post.

and yes, I agree with you. Ugh.

[rm.livejournal.com]

This obnoxious, vague _demanding_ meme that's all "well, if you don't believe in gay rights, just ignore this then. It's really passive agressive and lame and explained at the link.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

Yes, I read the link. (as I should have done before asking such an obvious question).

It's about as effective as the fools who circulate chain letter emails advising their friends to not buy gas on a given day to protest high gas prices. Not only is it a useless suggestion but it trivializes the problem by providing trite ways to address said problem.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

The smugness is what got me. Folks, it's a meme.

[drfardook.livejournal.com]

Memes will make the world a better place about the same time internet petitions will influence legislation.

Thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen the meme but damn is that annoying.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I got beat up on (though I expected it, to be honest) because the tone of it offended me.

The, "If you really loved me, you'd do it," nature of it pissed me off.

That someone who is adamantly against any form of coercion in male/female relations was posting this irked me.

That my pointing out the passive/aggerssive nature of the thing; the insulting assumption that one must do this, or be known by all who know you saw the thing to be non-supportive of gays (no matter what else one might have said, done, and supported), was dismissed as being oversensitive, the actions of a wanker, the thinking of a child, or a lack of moral purity, well that was what I expected.

TK

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, if it's any consolation, a lot of people are irritated by this one. I can't believe more people aren't.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but I am not incosolate. It was, even in that venue, what I expected. Had any of them been clever, on point, or even well reasoned, it might have stung, but I've got pretty thick skin.

None of them threatened to kill me, so it's not a big deal.

But yeah, I was suprised that no one else seemed to think it offensive.

It seems they think such tactics are all right, if the cause is just (which is one of the oddities of one of the people who disagreed with me. She is a "purer than thee" type, who sees all in a prism of what should have been (and so fails to have as much impact on what could be) and would, I think, be willing to do horrible things, in the name of "right" though such behaviours are what she decries in the past.

But I digress.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure you weren't wounded by an annoying LJ argument, but sometimes I know I get down just by virtue of the fact it seems necessary for the discussion to be taking place.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Thank you - your post and the one you linked to are the first ones I've seen decrying this insipid and meaningless meme.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

I've seen a number of people who have the same objections. I wonder if these arrogant twits have stopped to think about the people who have marched, signed petitions, and done various things more, you know, active, than posting a stupid meme and feeling smug about doing so.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

I commented in this vein on Tsarina's lj, but my response to the first person I saw posting that was along the lines of "I'm not going to post this; rather, I will continue to express my support for gay rights by having lots of hot gay sex. Thank you."