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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

   A dig at the Pirate films from Disney.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 5 months ago

   Is that a crack about Jack Sparrow???
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   joe waskiewicz said, 5 months ago

   Wow, that joke would never fly in our PC world today.
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   sjsczurek said, 5 months ago

   Happy pirates?
   After all, that’s what “gay” really means; “happy.”
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   Jo Jo said, 5 months ago

   I hear people on the teevee calling Sparrow a gay pirate all the time, including, I think, even Depp.
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   paulproteus48640 said, 5 months ago

   I once knew a woman named Mary Fellows
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   Dave Marsden said, 5 months ago

   How about Bucco Bruce?
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   gmartin997 said, 5 months ago

   I hope Teena means “gay” in the happy, joyous sense. This strip is no place for controversial social issues. We have Doonesbury for that. But, since the strip was published over 7 and half years ago, it’s pointless to complain about it now.
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   Chelsea Prochaska said, 5 months ago

   @Night-Gaunt49

   GASP Blasphemous!
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    J.L.G. said, 5 months ago

    @gmartin997

    This is what irks me about so much of what gets said on subjects like this——the casual dehumanization. Gays are not a “controversial social issue,” they are people. That fact gets very easily obscured by heated rhetoric and by an environment where people who are NOT gay somehow think they have the right to actually VOTE on whether people who are NOT themselves can do this or that.

    Human beings, not “controversial issues.” I’m not saying you meant any malice, but again——it’s very easy to casually dehumanize people when so much out there encourages doing so.
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    peter stampfel said, 5 months ago

    @joe waskiewicz

    c’mon, the phrase PC has been around since the 70s.
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    Furienna said, 5 months ago

    @J.L.G.

    No one has said, that gays aren’t people. Of course they are. But that doesn’t change, that it’s a controversial subject.
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    C S said, 5 months ago

    I don’t know too many “gays” who enjoy being called “gays”. People may be gay but they are still people. I don’t called heterosexual people “straights”!
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    @joe waskiewicz

    It is flying now. And as for the much maligned “PC” white males still have superior position over all other peoples here. So it is hardly a level playing ground of equals yet. Peddle your “PC” blame another way.
    -
    One can be Gay and have a gay all time too. One can be any persuasion and be of gay temper.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    @Chelsea Prochaska

    Pirates of the past were quite fascinating and liberated in many ways. Women leaders! Homosexuality was okay in the ranks etc.
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