Re: My perspective on this

"Ellen is content to have "come out" during an era where mainstream gays are coddled by the mainstream liberal establishment, and where prejudicial attitudes towards gays (and blacks) is considered a conservative attitude, but no longer a mainstream attitude."

Don't blame Ellen. She knows who her employers are: the same people that listened to some fat turd in a trenchcoat about using failed entrapment for "sexual predators." Again, money talks.

"She is just thankful that she doesn't happen to be a member of a minority group with whom prejudicial attitudes towards them are currently mainstream attitudes, instead of just conservative attitudes."

So why hasn't the producers of Sesame Street made Bert and Ernie gay already?

"Remember the metaphorical tale about the black man who successfully leaves the ghetto behind, and then develops the same type of contemptuous attitude towards the people he used to share a community with as those who had always had a more privileged position in society?"

As a result of such hypothesis, race is almost non-existent.

"Remember, people in our society are conditioned to see that synthetic boundary line of "18" as akin to something that is decreed by the natural forces of the universe due to its all-important legal significance to those of us who live in contemporary society."

The natural forces of the universe say, "Whatever feels good, do it." What you're talking about is just a way for the bears to keep their honey posts full - that is unless a few people know the right palms to grease.

You think people become bears because they want to uphold the law?