I'm fine with everyone who has posted this opening up their business. Hell, spit in each others mouths. World needs fewer stupid people.
The sad thing is the number of people that believe that stupidity. But shit, the sadder thing is the ease by which it can be shown to be untrue.
When I see people say something like: I wonder, out of the 190 or so countries in the world, how many would the writer not be able to do those things?
the people who tend to believe this havent travelled much, beyond perhaps military deployment to one of the countries where you can't do these things. I'd flip it on them. how about walking down the street in a head covering or turbin? how about holding hands with your same sex partner, or your not conventionally attractive partner? How about wearing a pentagram or crescent moon?
In this case, she (the author) was talking about same sex partner, which is why she caged it: "Can I walk down the street holding the hand of my partner, a (beautiful) woman, in many places in America without getting a second glance? "
ah, I see. it is especially odd to think about me expecting to be able to walk around unnoticed in places where I stand out like a sore thumb. Haiti, Laos, etc.