Nerdo: It's sin! It says so in the bible!

I can't remember the chapter and verse, but I remember it's in the same chapter where they say it's OK for a father to sell his daughters into slavery, so long as he doesn't sell them to foreigners. Little help, anyone?

Because I'm sick of the gay mafia trying to claim that everyone or everything is gay. And by gay mafia, I mean the annoyingly uber-gay dude at work.

I don't have any problem with gay people being gay, but when they try to paint themselves as not being a minority, they need to be given a beer, and made to fight something.

For example, Randy is one of my favourite characters. If somebody tried to paint him as straight, I'd defend his gayness with equal vigour.

There's a few homosexuals of both genders whom I work with. Perhaps seven or eight all told. The only one that I never got on with was the whiny little camp fucker who insists that all which is straight is actually gay, and insists on finding hidden gayness in all that is around him. I want somebody to slap him with a vagina.

Edit: I also want people to stop using "surprise gayness" as a "shocking twist ending" for poorly-written fiction.

Wow, do you like the pain? 'Cause your about to be in a world of it, The Shipper's Union will see to that.

I'll fire the first barrage by axing you a simple question: What evidence do you have?

@Shiny Nothing like pulling out the big guns! I'm sure Venus will be all to happy...

Thanks for the nick name/complement.   

You can throw the jar.

 

See, as a homo-gay-fag myself, I'd get really worked up about this current thread -- if I thought anyone at Futurama were actually a phobe about it.  Or, really, anybody here.  But Futurama's one of the most pro-gay shows around, and PEEL's cool too.

Still, I would posit that there are a couple of really gay Futurama episodes.  That's a compliment, of course.  What else could it be?

Example:  Bender had a sex change.  A sex change, baby; he became a fembot, you dig?  He had a romance with Calculon.  Sure he didn't -- you know -- "Barry White" -- but he sure cared about Calculon's emotions.  Maybe it was that Femmzoil coursing through Bender's robotic veins.  (Though, talk about easy female jokes.  What, no late-night ice cream eating with Leela?  Oops, my snark setting is set on obnoxious. *turns it down*.)  Bender, of course, kept his ill-gotten five Olympic bending medals, even after the transformation back from his Coilette persona.  "I'm back, baby!"  *twoing!*

Another example:  Then, of course, there's "Hell is the H-Word."  Which is basically Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" transposed via Futurama onto a 31st-century template, with a Star Trek twist.  Doy!  What, you weren't paying attention in high school English class?  Oh, you neither, huh?  Well, I read it later, and you should too.  Yes.  Whaaa?

As you'll recall, Cap'n Zapp had certain, um, feelings, toward the outstanding new recruit, Lee Lemon.  (Leela, of course, in a clever bearded disguise that only morons -- such as Zapp, Fry, hard-farting Bender, Nixon, that emu-farming soldier, and the rest, save perhaps Kif -- could not penetrate.)  Zapp made several overtures to the new recruit, including the mention of Ancient Greece.  Oddly enough (yeah, right!) Leela didn't reciprocate.

Yes, Leela -- I mean, Lee Lemon -- resisted the man-on-"man" intimacy suggested by such lines as  Zapp's: "I'm about to try the new lotion you recommended. (Sexfully) If I should accidentally put too much on my hands, perhaps I could rub it onto you."  Well, granted, straight guys, plus any self-respecting gaywad like me, would refuse such an offer.  As would Leela, of course, what with the gagging and the horror and the God-forbid!

Ah, dang.  This was supposed to be a much shorter post.  But then I got into describing some of my favorite episodes, and, like most of us, I went on far too long.

Point is, Futurama makes many gay jokes.  And straight jokes.  And smizmar jokes.  In fact, they make most any joke they can.  But they're never mean, and they're (almost) always funny.

Now, concerning what I find the most offensive post in this thread... Capybara, do you listen to a word Ralph Snart posts? I won't argue back on this one. I'll let Matt and DXC do it for me.   

Your member has to EARN its respect, buddy.  And if it's so scared of merely sharing internet space with gay men, it's already heavily overdrawn.  Add the high interest rate you get by flattering yourself that any gay man would want to get near any part of you, and you're severely in debt at the Respect Bank.

You can work off some of said debt by paying respect out to others...such as by making apologies: to Tom, who didn't do a thing against you; to the Mods, whose role you presumed to usurp after less than a month here; and to the rest of the board, for reminding us that such ignorance exists in the world.

There's my two cents for you...use it to buy yourself a clue.

 

Originally posted by TomAllen:
... Futurama's one of the most pro-gay shows around...

Huh.
I’d not “gotten” that from the show.

... and PEEL's cool too...

Just one big, happy, dysfunctional family, ay? 

Example:  Bender had a sex change. A sex change, baby; he became a fembot, you dig?

Yeah, I dig, man.

• You seem to be confusing homosexuality with transsexuality. Transsexuality is an issue of gender identity, where homosexuality is one of sexual preference.
• Bender’s choice to have a sex-change was motivated not out of, for lack of a better term, robot sexual preference, nor one of gender identity, but out of avarice for Olympic gold. 
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  He had a romance with Calculon...

  • Also motivated by material gain.
  • Actually, Coilette had the romance with Calculon, but I don’t mean to split hairs.
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  ... he sure cared about Calculon's emotions...

  Agreed. Probably a side-effect Bender did not forsee – and a fine plot twist as well.
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  ... Bender, of course, kept his ill-gotten five Olympic bending medals, even after the transformation back from his Coilette persona...

  That’s Bender for you.
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  ... Ah, dang.  This was supposed to be a much shorter post.  But then I got into describing some of my favorite episodes, and, like most of us, I went on far too long.

  
  
  Welcome to my life! 
  
  @ Shiny: You fight’em down,, girl! 
  

 

Originally posted by Ralph Snart:
And for the shippers:  Leela dressing in drag to protect Fry and towards the end, holding hands with him on the chopper.

She never mentioned his cowardice.  She accepts him as he is.  But only as a friend (wink wink).

Nothing like honing in on the important part of an episode. (wink, wink)

 

Originally posted by evilfry:
AIDS=natures way of saying,Hey fellas.....

Yeah, that's probably another one of those inappropriate jokes. There is a line between joking and having fun and being a total ass.

 After due consideration, and looking at my post from less exhausted eyes, I decided to delete this.  As PCC Fred pointed out, it had nothing to do with Leela and Fry, and it was in response to a pretty blatant troll.

I thank Officer 1BDI for his compliment below; but I still think this post is best forgotten.

Although, if anyone objects to this - to my cheating in order to save face and slipping out from under the embarrassment of having had my buttons pushed by a dweeb - I have saved the text of this post and will restore it.

But for now, let's just follow HopelessShipper's advice below.

Shiny "Feelin' Pretty Dumb" J. Fangirl

shiny,give into the dark side,i could make you great.

 

Originally posted by Shiny:
(And PCC Fred, kindly elaborate.  If I'm a moron for taking this seriously, then it won't be the first time.  But as I could detect no irony, nor wit of any sort, in the original remark, I refuse to treat it as some sort of postmodern, irony-less meta-joke. )

My remark was prinicpally aimed at evilfry, but the guy's obviously trying to wind people up, and I don't know why so many of you are rising to the bait.  And what does all this have to do with Fry and Leela, anyway?

 

Originally posted by Shiny:
Capybara: Tough words for an oversized semi-aquatic rodent. 

Look, if you want them to be togethr fine. But I'm not a over-sized semi-aquatic rodenT! I was just getting my opinion out, so if you want to insult me fine, be childish. You asked the question, I just mad my answer. It's no crime. Good day Shiny and all the other teasers. Good day to you all.

@Capybara  If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned. Especially if you play with fire at a gas station next to a leaking natural gas line.

Uhm...

Could we get back to the actual topic of this thread?

Please?   

[*Claps*]

Shiny, you never cease to amaze me. You write prose very well, but POETRY?

First you write a perfect sonnet, and the preceding is just the latest.

Don't ever stop.

Shiny, I think I love you. (In a totaly friendly and creepy stalker way.)

Shiny, I'd love you except everyone above me's used up all the good options.