Comments on: German Magazine: Touch A Gay, Get A Disease http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/08/15/2651 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Tue, 21 May 2013 11:50:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jason D http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/08/15/2651/comment-page-1#comment-15618 Jason D Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:55:10 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=2651#comment-15618 "This headline is misleading. It implies that a mainstream German magazine is making this claim, when in reality it is a marginal Islamic publication. Context, please!" How does "German Magazine" somehow imply mainstream? The words "Major German Magazine" or "Popular German Magazine" or "Influential German Magazine" might be misleading, but I fail to see how this headline is misleading...? I didn't assume, based on the title, that the magazine was mainstream or marginal. I figured I would have to actually read the post to find out what kind of German Magazine was printing this rubbish. “This headline is misleading. It implies that a mainstream German magazine is making this claim, when in reality it is a marginal Islamic publication. Context, please!”

How does “German Magazine” somehow imply mainstream? The words “Major German Magazine” or “Popular German Magazine” or “Influential German Magazine” might be misleading, but I fail to see how this headline is misleading…?

I didn’t assume, based on the title, that the magazine was mainstream or marginal. I figured I would have to actually read the post to find out what kind of German Magazine was printing this rubbish.

]]> By: gkruz http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/08/15/2651/comment-page-1#comment-15614 gkruz Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:26:28 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=2651#comment-15614 This headline is misleading. It implies that a mainstream German magazine is making this claim, when in reality it is a marginal Islamic publication. Context, please! This headline is misleading. It implies that a mainstream German magazine is making this claim, when in reality it is a marginal Islamic publication. Context, please!

]]> By: Lynn David http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/08/15/2651/comment-page-1#comment-15584 Lynn David Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:30:48 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=2651#comment-15584 Places like UCSF have institutional blindness when it comes to their complicity in such matters. It takes someone such as yourself, Jim, to point out the 'error of their ways.' Good work! Having had MRSA, I wouldn't wish it on anyone. It took two months of vancomycin to knock it down in me. And the dang bug still persists, one is never rid of it. <i><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/c-difficile/DS00736" rel="nofollow">C. diff</a></i> is another general population bacteria that could also be pinned as "gay-related" since it is associated with the colon and more virulent in those with previous bowel disease. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy as it brought me near to death earlier this year. But because I am gay? Nope, because I am human. Places like UCSF have institutional blindness when it comes to their complicity in such matters. It takes someone such as yourself, Jim, to point out the ‘error of their ways.’ Good work!

Having had MRSA, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. It took two months of vancomycin to knock it down in me. And the dang bug still persists, one is never rid of it.

C. diff is another general population bacteria that could also be pinned as “gay-related” since it is associated with the colon and more virulent in those with previous bowel disease. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy as it brought me near to death earlier this year. But because I am gay? Nope, because I am human.

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