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dballance

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42. Thank You!

Sun May 25, 2014, 04:23 PM

May 2014

As an openly gay man I'm happy to report I've never had the inclination to abuse children, drug and molest others, or go on a rampage where I killed others even though I had easy access to guns that my family owned.

As a gay man I have experienced discrimination for who I am and have contemplated suicide. It kind of goes with the territory when I was a kid in the late '70s and early '80s. Back when we were still being taught by the Reagans and their ilk that being a homo was nasty and should be punished by Gawd.

Not to mention this guy's manifesto and YouTube rants seem to point out he was frustrated by his HETEROSEXUAL desires being spurned. How his rants about women turning him down make him a homosexual are FAUX SNOOZE memes at their best.

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The stereotype of the crazed homicidal gay person is an old libel. [View all] yardwork May 2014 OP

+1,000,000 CBGLuthier May 2014 #1

Thanks! yardwork May 2014 #2

Thanks. Well put. n/t TDale313 May 2014 #3

Agreed! It's nice to see you yardwork! Raine1967 May 2014 #4

Never noticed there was such a stereotype. SheilaT May 2014 #5

It has been a long existing stereotype dsc May 2014 #20

Which Hitchcock film? SheilaT May 2014 #43

I was thinking of Rope dsc May 2014 #44

I'm not familiar with Rope. SheilaT May 2014 #45

rope was based in the Leopold and Loeb case dsc May 2014 #47

Yes, I am in to old films. SheilaT May 2014 #50

Rope is the best, but Compulsion and Swoon are also good adaptations of Leopold and Loeb. Tom Ripley May 2014 #51

Excellent!!! n/t RKP5637 May 2014 #6

What's up with DU lately? Cali_Democrat May 2014 #7

I keep wondering when people on this site will say enough of this boston bean May 2014 #12

Well, so long as Skinner is sucking in ad revenue from clicks on troll threads... Scootaloo May 2014 #23

Yup. Starry Messenger May 2014 #32

+1 FreeState May 2014 #39

Apparently this garbage meets community standards etherealtruth May 2014 #17

The community standards are whatever a random group of 7 DUers says they are. Gormy Cuss May 2014 #40

The truth is that christx30 May 2014 #31

Damn you! johnp3907 May 2014 #46

This place is out to lunch anymore. Starry Messenger May 2014 #8

Was he psychotic? Helen Borg May 2014 #9

Perhaps Yes. One of his family members called the police. SSRIs had nothing to do with it. dballance May 2014 #13

But there was no FDA black box warning about suicide for Tylenol. Helen Borg May 2014 #19

I'm not sure what your point is. dballance May 2014 #26

My point is simple: SSRIs -> suicide warning for < 24 yo. Tylenol -> NOT! Helen Borg May 2014 #30

Then why do you try to make the point that it's relevant? Neoma May 2014 #33

It's not deterministic! There are many factors, obviously. Helen Borg May 2014 #34

You are WRONG. The reporting says he REFUSED meds. dballance May 2014 #36

I think we need to wait until the dust settles Helen Borg May 2014 #37

That is sooo funny. Go ahead and condemn SSRIs b4 the dust settles. dballance May 2014 #38

It wasn't an SSRI and he refused it... VanillaRhapsody May 2014 #55

I read the name of the drug...it was no SSRI I could recall....it closely sounded like drugs for VanillaRhapsody May 2014 #54

exactly. Why bother with what the shooter wrote as his motives when we can blame the gays? Warren Stupidity May 2014 #10

Ever heard of Alexander the Great? N.T. Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #11

Alexander the Great might have been gay so all gays are killers? yardwork May 2014 #15

Ha! Are all gay mass murderers so obsessed with getting laid by women as this one? valerief May 2014 #14

Seems like another privileged WHITE MALE. Let's start profiling WHITE MALES. dballance May 2014 #16

Yes! I agree! frogmarch May 2014 #18

i thought so. lat last night. then thought, maybe i was wrong. so, thank you yard. seabeyond May 2014 #21

Also silly to implicate Asperger's thesquanderer May 2014 #22

Never seen that stereotype treestar May 2014 #24

Exactly. txwhitedove May 2014 #25

The characters "Buffalo Bill" in the film "Silence of the Lambs", Norman Bates in "Psycho", Zorra May 2014 #48

I'm not a big film watcher treestar May 2014 #49

I would include the common portrayal of Richard III and even Scar in The Lion King Tom Ripley May 2014 #52

He was probably too lonely to be gay or have any other overt sexual identity. JDPriestly May 2014 #27

k&r LeftishBrit May 2014 #28

This whole tragedy has brought out some disgusting speculation. NuclearDem May 2014 #29

Wacko religious conservatives have used LGBT, and women, as convenient scapegoats for most every Zorra May 2014 #35

I can't think of any real reason someone would think he was gay gollygee May 2014 #41

Thank You! dballance May 2014 #42

I agree completely. I'm tired of this canard. fujiyama May 2014 #53