Straight Talk

Here's a great item from a memo to Hollywood written by the film critic Manohla Dargis that could equally be applied to many aspects of life. Are you gay-marriage haters reading?

Enough with the gay slurs, the gay baiting, imitating, limp-wristing, so-not-funny lisping -- in other words, enough with the hating. Yeah, some gay men are hilarious (Oscar Wilde). But people are funny, their identities are not. Try this simple test: Every time you feel the need to mock or denigrate gay men or lesbians, replace that joke with an equally vicious dig about African-Americans or Jews. Doesn’t sound so funny anymore, does it?