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stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs. at 10 pm
#50stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:44pm
But TODAY at the market I saw these new WILD CHERRY M&Ms!! I didn't pick them up but I am INTRIGUED!
M&Ms are sure trying to get away from the classics! What do they have? Classic, Peanut, Crispy, Pretzel, Almond, Coconut, I swear I saw Strawberry once, White Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, and now Wild Cherry!!
Next thing you know we'll get FRUITY M&Ms!!!
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#51stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:45pmSo you're pleased with her using the Fag word, then, Capn?
#52stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:46pmThere were Strawberry Peanut Butter ones. If you're ever in the Hershey Store, they have macadamia kisses. DIVINE.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#53stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:46pmWhy do you have a picture of Helen Thomas in your avatar capn?
....but the world goes 'round
#54stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:53pm
Who did what now?
SERIOUSLY, in all honesty, I think this is all a nonissue. She doesn't hate fags. She loves us! And yes, people will say that the word is never appropriate...yatta yadda yappa, but from what I read into your post on FB, it is not meant to be derogatory. But I can see how others might read it that way.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#55stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:55pmtazber -- I just swallowed my gum! That's by far the funniest comment I've ever read!
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
usemaybefatal2
Swing Joined: 6/7/10
#56stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:10pmThis just sickens me, honestly. I will lost respect for anyone who shows up to this little demo. I don't think she meant harm by the statement. If Alice was homophobic, she wouldn't be doing theatre.
#57stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:14pmThat's such a stereotype usemay, not everyone who does theater is gay and it doesn't matter if she worked at a gay bar IT WAS WRONG and she should not have said it!
I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
-Julie Andrews
#58stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:17pm
Like Mel Gibson can't be anti-semitic because he's in film?
Updated On: 6/7/10 at 07:17 PM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#59stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:26pm
The big shocker here shouldn't be that heterosexuals - even those considered gay-tolerant or whatever - do and say homophobic things. White people who aren't out and out racists say racist things. Men can say misogynistic things without being out and out misogynists. It's not the cutesy "everyone's a little bit racist" crap we've had to suffer through since Avenue Q, it's just a fact of life that those who are privileged will sometimes use that privileged, often without realizing it.
The surprise is how many people are willing to just blanketly excuse here, and the downright wtfockery of this is her seeming willfulness to just keep being an ignorant prig.
usemaybefatal2
Swing Joined: 6/7/10
#60stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:27pmOMG I was in no way saying all people who do theatre are gay. I personally think people are overreacting to this. She shouldn't have said it, but they way people are reacting, like this stupid demo, is ridiculous.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#61stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:28pm
I'm thinking of Bette's Margo Channing when she says "performance 1000 of this, if I play that long, will take place in a well-padded boobie hatch."
I think Ms. Ripley has been Diana-ing too long.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#62stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:28pmNo one thought you were saying everyone was gay. You were implying there was no homophobia in theatre.
#63stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:29pm
Anyone remember the YouTube video spoof of this guy dressed as a reverend and going around Times Square about the Broadway community and its promotion of Faggotry? They were HILARIOUS!
I loved those videos. "Their is a frequency that turns you gay."
If Alice was homophobic, she wouldn't be doing theatre.
http://blog.gayrightswatch.com/tag/justin-caster/
#64stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:34pm
Oh snap! Good one tf4.
....but the world goes 'round
#65stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:35pmUsemay I knew what you meant, but to say that if she was homophobic she wouldn't be doing theater give off that sort of insinuation!
I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
-Julie Andrews
usemaybefatal2
Swing Joined: 6/7/10
#66stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:36pmWhat I have concluded: What Alice said was not right. This whole stage door demo is stupid. She apologized for it. I think we should really just grow up a little. Alice hates fags? That's really pushing it, sorry guys.
#67stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:41pmPhyllis -- well put. Well put.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#68stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:45pmWait, where was her apology?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#69stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:46pmPssst - show of hands: given the original poster, who thinks this thread is real?
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
ActingIsLovee
Stand-by Joined: 1/16/08
#70stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:54pm
She posted this: Alice Ripley YIKES! FORGIVE MY OFFENSE.
yesterday.
#71stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:56pmIt's like Ellen D said, it is not really a sorry if it sooooorry (if it goes up in the middle)!
I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
-Julie Andrews
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#72stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 7:57pmWonderwaiter, I keep wondering that, too, but I qualified myself earlier about i. I think the general consensus is that it IS real. If it's not, it's hilarious.
#73stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 8:05pmTo be honest, I think this whole thing just got blown out of proportion. Was it an angry, heat of the moment comment that probably shouldn't have been said? Absolutely. But was it taken the wrong way by people who have been (understandably) hypersensitized to things like that? Yes. I understand the feelings of betrayal and disillusionment, but the thing is I just can't find anything to suggest that she's really homophobic.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#74stage door demo for Ripley's FAG slur Thurs at 10 pm
Posted: 6/7/10 at 8:13pm
"If it's not, it's hilarious."
I don't think I've had this much fun on the Main Board since Sueleen saw PURLIE with a bigot!
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
