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I. DESENSITIZATION
If, however, gays can live alongside straights, visibly but as inoffensively as possible, they will arouse a low-grade alert only, which, though annoying to straights, will eventually diminish for purely physiological reasons. Straights will be desensitized.
We can extract the following principle for our campaign to desensitize straights to gays and gayness, inundate them in a continuous flood of gay-related advertising, presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If straights can't shut off the shower, they may at least eventually get used to being wet.
2. JAMMING
The trick is to get the bigot into the position of feeling a conflicting twinge of shame, along with his reward, whenever his homohatred surfaces, so that his reward will be diluted or spoiled. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, all making use of repeated exposure to pictorial images or verbal statements that are incompatible with his self-image as a well-liked person, one who fits in with the rest of the crowd. Thus, propagandistic advertisement can depict homophobic and homohating bigots as crude loudmouths and a##holes--people who say not only 'f#ggot' but 'n#gger,' 'k#ke,' and other shameful epithets--who are 'not Christian.'
It can, in short, link homohating bigotry with all sorts of attributes the bigot would be ashamed to possess, and with social consequences he would find unpleasant and scary.
When he sees someone like himself being disapproved of and disliked by ordinary Joes, Direct Emotional Modeling ensures that he will feel just what they feel --and transfer it to himself.
Note that the bigot need not actually be made to believe that he is such a heinous creature, that others will now despise him, and that he has been the immoral agent of suffering. It would be impossible to make him believe any such thing. Rather, our effect is achieved without reference to facts, logic, or proof.
3.CONVERSION
It isn't enough that antigay bigots should become confused about us, or even indifferent to us--we are safest, in the long run, if we can actually make them like us. Conversion aims at just this.
We mean conversion of the average American's emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.
In Conversion, the bigot, who holds a very negative stereotypic picture, is repeatedly exposed to literal picture/label pairs, in magazines, and on billboards and TV, of gay- explicitly labeled as such!--who not only don't look like his picture of a homosexual, but are carefully selected to look either like the bigot and his friends, or like any one of his other stereotypes of all-right guys-- the kind of people he already likes and ` admires. This image must, of necessity, be carefully tailored to be free of absolutely every element of the widely held stereotypes of how 'f#ggots' look, dress, and sound. He--or she--must not be too well or fashionably dressed; must not be too handsome--that is, mustn't look like a model--or well groomed. The image must be that of an icon of normality
But it makes no difference that the ads are lies
harnessed and put to work for us in a practical propaganda campaign
After The Ball excerpts
Originally posted by acmpnsfal
Reply to post by MasterGemini
Sex and the city....really? You have to be joking. This whole thread is a joke im still cracking up over the gay advertising bit. But anyway that show had like 2 gay characters and the theme of the show was overwhelmingly womens impowerment, sexuality, and liberation. Please outline for me one way in which this show pushed any type of gay agenda besides having a gay character or two.
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Originally posted by acmpnsfal
Reply to post by MasterGemini
Sex and the city....really? You have to be joking. This whole thread is a joke im still cracking up over the gay advertising bit. But anyway that show had like 2 gay characters and the theme of the show was overwhelmingly womens impowerment, sexuality, and liberation. Please outline for me one way in which this show pushed any type of gay agenda besides having a gay character or two.
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Originally posted by acmpnsfal
Reply to post by IlluminatusOculus33
That article was garbage. What it said in a nutshell is women forgot their place and society is falling apart because they dont treat men as their superiors anymore. It says that women dont know how to love or be wives. Its obviously written by some man who is angry because women are allowed to have a real voice. Women are and were oppressed in American society. Fighting back against it produces these asenine articles by people with 2 brain cells. Perhaps if women were not treated as second class citizens in the first place there would have been no need for the feminist movement.
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