marriage is for robots!!!

I feel oppressed by the idea of marriage.

As I said, it was a small thing; I was only asking them to consider using a term that most of the media adopted long ago and explaining why. Gothamist is free to do as it chooses. It was only a suggestion. The fact that you have to resort to cursing and screeching about "political correctness" (the oldest trick in the book to try to shut up people who point out the impact language can have on how marginalized groups are treated) is pretty pathetic.

It seems

like

The Times

needed

to fill

space,

judging

from the

long,

dull accounts

of doomed

passive-aggressive

courtships.

(I formatted the previous sentence so that it would appear as a very long column. Somehow the line breaks dissolve in this text program. Damn it!)

It's ironic that Echanis is swearing up a storm about being too PC, yet he is censoring himself for some unknown reason, because Gothamist doesn't censor messageboard swearing. Here's proof; repeat after me: Fucking asshole, Goddamn shit.

Oh for christ...now "homosexual" is offensive? F*cking-a ridiculous at this point. G*ddamn PC sh*t like this is why noone takes moderate liberals seriously at this point. Keep obsessing over semantics while the right wing keep winning elections, that's right....

It was a very B-list wedding weekend. No major socialites' kiddies getting hitched on the "last weekend" of the summer. There were the typical heaps of lawyers, doctors, and soon-to-be's tying the knot, but none of the kids of A-list executives, etc.

It might be interesting to do a breakdown by ethnicity, although that might be difficult without making (possibly incorrect) assumptions based on photos or names.

what are you kidding me? have you gotten your "PC" tattoo across your forehead yet?

Hey, this is just a small thing, but would you guys consider referring to "same-sex weddings" or using some term other than "homosexual"?

As GLAAD puts it in their media guide:

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Identifying a same-sex couple as "a homosexual couple," characterizing their relationship as "a homosexual relationship," or identifying their intimacy as "homosexual sex" is offensive and should be avoided. These constructions are frequently used by anti-gay extremists to denigrate gay and lesbian people, couples and relationships.

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"Homosexual" is the term the right wing looooves to use, because it's cold and clinical and helps them frame their case that gay and lesbian people are somehow diseased or disordered. Very few legitimate mainstream publications use it anymore in the context you're using it here. You're not calling the other couples "heterosexual," so why call the gay and lesbian couple "homosexual"?