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Date Posted: 13:52:19 10/22/07 Mon
Author: EJetson
Subject: Re: Did this really need to be said?
In reply to: Deep Diction 's message, "Re: Did this really need to be said?" on 12:52:53 10/22/07 Mon

>>
>>>I saw a Fox News interview where some reporter was
>>>talking to parents and kids on the street about that
>>>issue. Not a single one of them had a problem with
>>>it, and the reporter was clearly trying as hard as he
>>>could to coax a negative response out of them.
>>
>>
>>
>>Nobody has a problem with it because it has no effect
>>whatsoever on the story.
>
>You do, don't you?

No problem with him being gay. Just a problem with the unnecessariness of the announcement. It doesn't make any difference if he was gay or not, so why make him one way or the other?

Why not say that Mr. Weasley had prostate cancer? It would have the same relevance to the story.

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Replies:

Re: Did this really need to be said? -- EJetson, 13:54:48 10/22/07 Mon
Re: Did this really need to be said? -- Deep Diction, 18:20:07 10/22/07 Mon
- Re: Did this really need to be said? -- Lynx, 18:33:11 10/22/07 Mon
- Re: Did this really need to be said? -- EJetson, 20:11:39 10/22/07 Mon
- Minerva doesn't have a significant other, either. -- Logan, 03:37:24 10/23/07 Tue
Here's my problem with your line of reasoning, EJ. -- Deep Diction, 16:13:57 10/23/07 Tue
- Re: Here's my problem with your line of reasoning, DD. -- EJetson, 18:20:14 10/23/07 Tue
  - Re: Here's my problem with your line of reasoning, DD. -- Deep Diction, 18:23:21 10/23/07 Tue
    - Re: Here's my problem with your line of reasoning, DD. -- EJetson, 18:26:16 10/23/07 Tue
    - How about this? -- Deep Diction, 18:28:07 10/23/07 Tue
      - Re: How about this? -- EJetson, 18:48:59 10/23/07 Tue
        Re: How about this? -- Deep Diction, 19:07:30 10/23/07 Tue
        I've been thinking about this, and... -- Deep Diction, 22:24:43 10/24/07 Wed

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