Quote: (06-01-2014 05:23 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
Gay People:
- have a huge disposal income without the cost of children;
- lack social awareness of peer judgement and how to navigate it to be liked, so are more likely to believe that aspirational products automatically confer social status;
- are part of a culture that encourages superficiality and irresponsibility so spend without thought as if to they can actually afford it;
They're so easy to manipulate that you couldn't design a better consumer drone. Every sponsor wants a piece of that. All a company has to do is make gay people think they company actually gives a shit about them as a person.
That's brilliant insight. It makes a lot of sense that they would want to cultivate and control a new consumer class. This likely makes up for the completely unreachable hetero market, who nowadays neither buys nor follows anything from Hollywood, at least, compared to previous decades.
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- can't abide the desires of the Id being frustrated for even a second, so act impulsively, without considering pros and cons
Several years ago, I was setting up the bar in the morning and noticed a huge chalk message had been scrawled outside our doors (unsolicited and in the middle of the night) proclaiming the evils of a medical industry that would not accept "gay blood." The exact wording was very controversial and combative. I made a judgement before open to wash it off the sidewalk. Nobody but other employees saw me do this.
I didn't believe the owner or manager would be comfortable with having our prominence abused with lazy, dramatic protests. And there was no protest, it was just lazy abuse of private property.
At the same time,
I did not realize it was the pride parade that day, I usually worked late nights but had an open shift and as I said, made the quick judgement call. I had already poured boiling water on it when I was told about the parade.
The other aspect of this, is all other chalk on the street (which I only then noticed) was just pointing out the locations of the parade route and the like. Our bar was the only one with a massive, political message outside, which would make it appear that we were making the statement.
Anyway, a lesbian and a gay man who worked at the bar immediately claimed I was a homophobe and tried desperately to get me in shit with the owner, etc. The GM defended me up and down as looking out for the best interests of the business.
It didn't matter that it was "pride day", it doesn't make sense for a business to scrawl huge politically charged messages outside, and that was why I made the judgement.
They were speechless that business trumped complaining. This actually would result in my promotion in less than a month because the upper management knew I wasn't fucking around.
Even so, I really liked the two of them and would eventually earn their respect through hard work and reliability. We became fairly chummy. The woman was bitter and middle-aged but we got along great. The guy hit on me all the time, but he's overall a cool guy to be around.