The "Gay Agenda" I can turn you Gay!

[Lil Missy]

Seriously, I can hardly keep a straight face.

This was a while back where I work. It's a VERY politically correct workplace where they are more concerned about the "perception" of any comment or action as opposed to what what is actually said.

I am openly gay at work. And to be fair, this workplace in the hospitality industry provides benefits for partners, whether gay or straight.

I told the lesbian toaster joke to someone on the smoke deck one day. She and several other people around laughed at the idea that one could be "converted" with a toaster.

Imagine my surprise when my supervisor called me on the carpet a few days later for telling this joke. Apparently, some idiot complained to her supervisor that I was trying to convert "innocent straight women" to the gay lifestyle. To her credit, she laughed at the notion and didn't write me up.

But, are you fucking serious???? Are there really people out there that seriously think someone would "convert" for a toaster???

I don't even know where to begin ...

[AllegroRondo]

1. not for a toaster, but maybe a microwave

inflation, you know.

[LynneSin]

4. Seriously

I'm expecting something along the lines of a new Washer&Dryer

[Lil Missy]

10. Okay, but I don't kiss on the first date.

[Lil Missy]

6. *sigh* I wish I had known it was that easy when I had crushes on straight women over the years.

All I had to do was offer a gift. Cost me maybe a hundred bucks at most. *sigh*

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. thats funny and sad too...

[youthere]

3. Maybe an expresso maker or a panini grill...

but a toaster?

[LynneSin]

5. You need to get the Cuisinart Panini Grill

It's great because it has 2 sets of plates for the machine - flat surface and one for grill.

I love mine!

[deepthought42]

7. Well...maybe for an espresso machine...

;)

I can't stand people who are idiots w/no sense of humor...*sigh*

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

8. I am still holding out for the 52 inch plasma TV.

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. It oughta have picture-in-picture

Y'know, in case you turn out bi.

[realisticphish]

9. give me a car and an xbox 360, and I'll think about it

But, seriously, how stupid do you have to be? And, anyway, why would you get in trouble even if you WERE "recruiting?" Homosexuality isn't illegal

[Lil Missy]

12. I know. And this is "supposedly" a gay friendly place!

Just shows the ignorance that has to be overcome.

[northzax]

19. well, here's the problem

if straight people can't tell gay jokes, then gay people shouldn't either (in the workplace). zero tolerance means just that. if she can't tell a joke that might offend you, you shouldn't be telling jokes that might offend her.

[Jamastiene]

23. You can take your seriousness over to GD.

and you can laugh a little while you are here in the Lounge, ya know? Lighten up. :silly:

[NMMNG]

26. The moron wasn't offended by the "joke"

She was offended because she actually thought somebody was offering toasters for women to "turn gay". She probably doesn't even have the intelligence to get jokes.

[BuelahWitch]

16. Fix the A/C and put some struts on my old Ford and I'm there!

:hi: I don't want to pay the taxes on a new car anyway!

[realisticphish]

25. oh, believe me

I'd take a ten year old nissan sentra, as long as it was manual and was free :hi:

[AllegroRondo]

11. So I guess recuiting numbers are down this year?

having trouble meeting the quotas?

[Lil Missy]

13. LOL! I wasn't even trying to "recruit" anyone.

(As if that were possible anyway)

I was just being ornery self and telling a joke.

[kwassa]

14. Apparently Elton can turn people gay

I ran across this little news item today in an Anglican church site.

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=36594

THE ARCHDEACON of Tobago, the Ven. Philip Isaac, has opposed the appearance of Sir Elton John at the island’s Plymouth Jazz Festival next month, warning that he could tempt people to become homosexual.

The Archdeacon is quoted in several newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago as saying, “The artiste is one of God’s children, and while his lifestyle is questionable he needs to be ministered unto. His visit to the island can open the country to be tempted towards pursuing his lifestyle.”

(and I thought this part of the article funny ...)

Of those expressing disapproval in the letter columns of the local papers, many were more concerned that Sir Elton was headlining a jazz festival when he was not strictly a jazz musician.

[achtung_circus]

15. I could easily be turned into a lesbian.

It wouldn't even take a toaster oven, although I'd probably fail the physical.

[Lil Missy]

18. If only women would be as easy to recruit.

[Jamastiene]

22. Lol, I can second that.

I hate it if I ever get a crush on a straight woman. It's always such a let down.

[Critters2]

17. But it was a REALLY GOOD toaster

Stainless steel with one of those long, wide slots for bagels or over-sized bread. And a handy-dandy cleaning tray.

[sammythecat]

20. I can only speak of personal experience

where I work. It's a "gay friendly" place. My supervisor is an openly gay woman (and very pretty). They are told to take any claim of sexual harassment, no matter how idiotic, seriously. Most times it' simply to tell someone of someone else's complaint and no other action is taken.

I think they have to do this just to cover their ass. Just like we are advised to report any injury, no matter how slight. One day I pulled something in my shoulder. I figured it would just go away in a couple days, but I got it on record that I got hurt on the job that day. 3 months later I found out I had torn my rotator cuff. I'm really glad I made the initial injury report or I might have had a fight on my hands.

Same with the harassment issue. They just have to get it on record they informed you of the idiotic complaint, just in case there is a second, and "not idiotic", complaint. They can't be blamed for doing nothing.

As far as your co-worker: Again, my own experience as a straight man tells me that homophobia ranges from "fiercely stupid" to "able to tolerate" and, sadly, it's very common. If the subject comes up they may even agree with my reasoning, but I know damn well there mind isn't changed. Their homophobia seems to be almost as innate as their own sexual orientation is innate.
I think it's going to take at least a generation for this problem, and racism, to really turn a corner.

BTW, I didn't mean the phrase "able to tolerate" as something positive. If someone says they "tolerate" me it certainly doesn't make me comfortable.

[Lil Missy]

30. Yes, that's the case at this place too.

It's a very PC environment, almost to the point of oppression.

At least I wasn't written up for it. That would have really pissed me off.

[dropkickpa]

21. She must have been tempted

By your mighty fine toaster and gotten scared!

[trof]

24. Hey, some of us are REALLY in to toast.

It's a sickness.

[Radical Activist]

27. I thought the toaster went to the one who coaxed someone else

into becoming gay. Like it was your reward for getting a new recruit.

[Connonym]

37. that's also what I thought n/t

[Skittles]

28. is there an actual "lesbian toaster joke" ?

I'm asking because I've always taken pride in the fact that a thread I posted years ago about gay people constantly showing up at my door, offering me toasters and savings bonds to adopt their lifestyle, has become a DU classic :D

[Lil Missy]

31. LOL! No, just that we get a toaster for each new woman we recruit

Savings bonds? LOL!

[Skittles]

40. the reason I started the thread

was a tongue in cheek reaction to something I observe here in North Texas - I constantly hear religous folk talking about how gay people are trying to recruit people (usually children) to their lifestyle - but it's not gay people showing up at my door trying to convert me - IT IS RELIGIOUS FOLK!!!!!! :o

[wildhorses]

29. i was 'reprimanded'

about asking a question about doing a urine preganancy test without dr's orders on an obviously gay woman...without her knowledge, consent or permission

:wtf:

is this world coming to???

[xchrom]

32. gay central committee wants you to know -- it a panini grill now

not a toaster -- due to a dispute we had with sunbeam.

they come in designer colours -- though i must say there is a terrible wait for aubergine/eggplant/purple.

[Lil Missy]

33. ROTFLOL!

I've been out of the loop for a couple years. Thanks for the update! LOL.

[blondeatlast]

34. As it so happens, I just bought a new toaster.

Hmm--glass tiling for the pool? Let's talk (let me put my hand on your shoulder--do you mind?...) :evilgrin:

Or a Porsche Boxster, maybe? (hand on knee now...) :evilgrin:

[mikeytherat]

36. But they are such FABULOUS toasters:

Who wouldn't "turn" for one of these?

mikey_the_rat

[TrogL]

38. Doesn't your workplace have a sexual harassment policy?

By telling the "toaster" joke, you're violating it.

[Zuiderelle]

39. What? Are you kidding? Talking about homosexuality in the form of a joke,

that is meant to make fun of people who actually believe that people can be recruited to be gay, is NOT sexual harassment. How would you construe it as such? Should gay people never talk about themselves at work, because to do so would be talking about homosexuality, and thus sex, and thus sexual harassment? Is that your angle?

[Pacifist Patriot]

41. Aw man! I don't even know how to respond.

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. Are you making this up? Are you fucking serious that anyone would believe this?

:shrug: