LGBTQ+ Rights and America

Yeah that.

Is anyone reminded of that scene in Spiderman 3 where Peter Parker kisses Gwen Stacy f'or the crowd' in much to Mary Jane's obvious hurt and betrayed.

No? I guess it's just me then.

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I have a friend who wound up on kiss cam with his sister and it really skeeved them both out.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Was it this guy◊?

The fact he had to plan ahead and premake a sign to bring with him is kinda sad.

We don't need a damn kiss cam anyway. Just show random fans, let them wave (or kiss if they want) and let it go. Honestly, they should really just show kids because it would make the average kid's day to be on a big screen and the audience can still get their aww moment.

"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur

I remember the one time I went to a baseball game. There was a ton of random crap on the screens and stuff and about thirty different "special events" whenever the game slowed down. They had a kiss cam, but it was apparently aimed wrong because it was pointed at an empty part of the stadium.

Not Three Laws compliant.

Yeah, I've never seen same-sex couples on the Kiss Cam even at Cyclones and Mets games.

Maybe the Giants or the Niners?

The child is father to the man —Oedipus

The problem could be one of telling who the gay couples are and who isn't just friends or siblings.

...Which, as illustrated by these stories of siblings caught on the thing, is also a problem with identifying the relationship of males/females sitting together. Seriously, I agree, it's just a pretty bad concept in general.

Yeah, you've basically got a guy trying to play "find the couple" based on little to no information. Can you really blame them for going for the safer bets?

edited 11th Sep '14 7:43:03 AM by Elfive

Male/Female isn't a safer bet. A lot of times the pair are siblings, friends, or complete strangers and it just ends up being an excuse to sexually harass women.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

It's not a safe bet, but at a sporting event a man and a woman sitting next to each other probably have at least a slightly higher chance of being a couple than two random men.

Speaking very much in relative terms here.

Or they could just go for people showing signs of being a couple, it can't be that hard to pick out an obvious couple at a large sporting event. The process doesn't have to be random unless the idea is to get random strangers to kiss each other, and trying to pressure people who don't know each other into kissing each other is pretty creepy.

"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran

obvious signs vary according to the looker.

I had someone think I was cheating on my boyfriend with a "mysterious white man" who came over in the middle of the night, stayed weird hours, and was seen hugging me or kissing my cheek on my doorstep.

Yeah. So having an affair with my brother.

Anywho:

Questions a gay father has been asked. As a single mom I can completely relate. I'm glad he has more positive experiences than otherwise.

Questions a gay father wants his son to keep asking.

"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur

Yeah... I've been there. <_< "OK, Mr and Mrs —, please sign here to get the keys to the hotel room..." "BROTHER/ SISTER: we're Mr and Miss!" — from both of us. <cue new sport "synchronised skin crawling" suddenly developing> Particularly if we find that they didn't take the "two single beds" seriously.

Yes: for this reason, I am very, very deliberately keeping "Miss": the "little old spinster" effect doesn't trump the Westermarck one.

And, yes: we often share hotel rooms when we go on holiday together. It's cheaper, thanks. And, sisters and brothers are allowed to still like each other as adults and want to bug each other on holiday together because, you know, why waste all that early practice perfecting the art? >_<

edited 11th Sep '14 12:41:02 PM by Euodiachloris

Ideally nobody would insinuate anything between any two people anywhere, whether friends, lovers, siblings, or parent and offspring.

By obviously signs I meant actual obvious ones, like them already been kissing. Anyone who thinks a hug or a kiss on the cheek is always a romantic action is a fool, I'm pretty sure almost every French person I've ever met has given me a kiss on the cheek.

"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran

I cannot tell you the number of people who think that my wife's brother is Mr. Ninja and I'm her brother. Or the people confused when all three of us show up for something and you can see the panicked look in their eyes as they try to figure out if my wife has one husband or two. I find it as amusing as I do frustrating.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw

People have assumed I am my son's older sister and not his mother.

The looks of horror used to offend me. Now they amuse me.

"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur

My dad has had people mistake my aunt for his wife multiple times.

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Yikes. People don't jump to assumptions don't they? I like how was played in Black Books.

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@Silas W: I can't speak for all French, but among my family SOP is to use a (reciprocated) kiss on the cheek to say hello within the family when there's a generation gap (parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents) regardless of gender, or for greeting a cousin or close friend of the opposite sex.

So yeah, a kiss on the cheek is a very bad indicator of whether two people are in a couple.

edited 12th Sep '14 1:16:35 AM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

It's not just the French, don't Russians and Italians do the same?

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People have thought my sister was my girlfriend. We had different hair colors at the time — though we both look like my father — but she was about 16, and I was about 26.

I don't have much to offer, but I hardly need to woo high-school girls.

But we're getting off topic. Hm. Looks like civil unions have come to Croatia^* Link is in French, sorry. My sister's actual boyfriend is from there; he was pleased when they were legalized in July.

edited 12th Sep '14 6:16:13 PM by HersheleOstropoler

The child is father to the man —Oedipus

That's still off-topic; this is the "and America" thread :P

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