Mark Alexander
You're a bad man. You're a very bad man!
Irreverent, independent, and often snarky partnered married gay boomer and doggie dad who is tired of moral pontification by hypocritical conservative assholes and hate filled religious bigots.
Based on some recent incidents, let me reiterate: If you are the owner of a photo that appears on this site and wish it removed, you don't need to get all legal and send threatening letters and takedown notices; just email me with the photo's URL or leave a comment on the offending post and I will gladly remove it.
In other words…
Retirement
(That's actual number of calendar days. It's a whole lot less if you remove weekends and holidays. And even less than that if you calculate the actual number of days I have to come into the office!)
Nah.
In France these old-minded people are less organized than in the USA. They resorted to hypocrisy to gather people under the same flag : the welfare of the children (to hide monoparental parent and LGBT discrimination) and the old marriage clichée between a boy and a girl as either sacred or to bound heterosexual true love (when marriage is historically a union of interest of 2 family, than bounding 2 people in love).
The manifestations was a counter-reaction for the law (gay marriage) that was sure to be passed (majority in legislative chambers). Those scared people were still scary, they were so numerous on the streets, and loud. Thanks god the pro-marriage manifestation were more successful.
Noone was duped by the hypocrisy, and contraception and abortion right ("IVG", and still free here) were never threatened. Nothing too of the pro-abstinence and the virgin till wedded bullshit. Still, those manifestations were a good vaccine shot to defend these rights against stupid.
I put the phenomenon the gregarian attitude of human (like Aristotle said) (people prefer to be in group and interact) : Instead of depressing at home, an old lady find friends and a cause, even if they are stinking ones.