March 12, 2010
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Gay Kiss Vs. Straight Kiss
The Washington Post is claiming they received complaints about posting the photo of a gay couple kissing. Here is the link: Link
Is posting this kissing
any different than posting this kiss?
The Washington Post is claiming they received complaints about posting the photo of a gay couple kissing. Here is the link: Link
Is posting this kissing
any different than posting this kiss?
Comments (107)
Thats gay.
Yes, not that common.
Yes, the top picture is of two men.. that is the difference.
The second picture is black and white.
Nope. A kiss is a kiss. ♥
it’s definitely not something you see everyday.
@MomGoneMadd - I’m detecting serious sarcasm in that comment :3
Yeah. One’s taboo and the other one isn’t.
If anything, the second one is more vulgar.
i would prefer to see the second kiss (if i have to see any kissing), but i am not offended by the first kiss.
@Queen_of_You188 - Gasp! Sarcasm is of the devil!
you know what? NO it’s not. They’re just doing a peck on the lips, whereas the ones on the bottom are eating each other out…
the second couple has only one sailor
The man in that second picture is attacking that woman!
Both are pretty cute pictures.
Picture 1 = Peck, Picture 2 = Frenching
@vegetahatespeta -
Dat’s what I was thinking!
Neither photo offends me.
That purple shirt’s pretty offensive to my vision.
I’m not fond of looking at guys kissing, but I’d NEVER protest against it. The only scenario I can think of that I might protest is if ANY couple (gay or straight) is putting on a show in a public place in the presence of my (future) children, and it’s not convenient for me to move to a different location.
It’s time to move on and let these people live their lives in peace.
The first picture is consensual.
In the second picture the man is forcing himself on a woman.
@petitenoirtenue - I agree. Both are sweet pictures.
Hey slightly off topic but did they every figure out who that Sailor & Nurse were? It’s been a huge mystery since the end of WWII!
I don’t care to watch anyone kiss. Whatev.
Yeah, there’s a big difference. One kiss is a cultural icon, symbolizing the end of the most terrible period in history. It was the symbol of a new life in the post war era. It meant we’ll build a new civilization on the ashes of the old one because tyrants like Tojo, Hitler, and Mussolini were vanquished. (OK, except for Stalin, he was still around) That kiss was the start of the Baby Boom.
Two guys kissing will not give us a baby boom.
Yeah! I wanna be in the gay people sandwich!!
@BB61 - but it gets me hot in the pants. Which is way more important.
The complaints are gay!
@BB61 - Right now, where our culture is right now, do you think a gay kiss is not a cultural icon? I don’t necessarily think it is, but in a few decades, that could be just how we see it. At least that’s what i think.
One is a classic photo and the other isn’t. But the first is no more offensive… Neither are really.
The Asian man is simply demonstrating a new martial arts attack.
Yeah, there’s a major difference.
The first one made me moist.
Gay kisses are SO hot. I don’t particularly care for the straight kiss.
People are such prudes.
@MomGoneMadd - Yes, the top picture is of two men.. that is the difference.
Wow. You’re so fucking bright.
@crazygrampastuey - lol
@Shinbi_Belldandy - they did find out! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4797975
i wish homophobes would just get over themselves.
@Shinbi_Belldandy - I remember reading an article about a woman saying she was the nurse. it was a few years ago. Who knows if it’s the truth or not….
Obviously. You really had to ask?
Well.. personally I hate the second one because it reminds me of high school history but IDK. o_O
@MangoWOW - hahaha. o_o I’ve never thought about it that way. Yeah. Second one is offensive to a woman’s right to kiss or not kiss. >_
@ShimmerBodyCream - I’m happy for you that you get ‘hot in the pants’ over this. I’m sure that’s way more important then the estimated 4,000,000 lives saved on both sides by the surrender of the Japanese forces that made an invasion unnecessary.
@BB61 - Because making out is what puts an end to massacre and wars. I like your pornographic version of history. We should work together on a film…
No, & there’s nothing offensive about either. A kiss is just that.. a kiss.
Completely different, but that’s not a bad thing.
@BB61 - Do we really need another one of those?
@FluffyTheRedOne - I don’t think that particular gay kiss comes anywhere near iconic status. To paraphrase Herman Hupfeld “You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss……” The sailor, putting the smooch on that nurse is truly an icon. It symbolized the end of the darkest period in history. Over 50,000,000 people died in that conflict. An estimated 4,000,000 more casualties, American and Japanese combined, were expected druing the invasion of the 4 Japanese home islands. The Kempetai had issued orders for all prisoners, military and civilian, to be executed when one allied serviceman stepped foot on the main islands. The 45th Infantry Division, veterans of 4 amphibious assaults in Europe were expected to be the first wave in. Firebombings like the March 10th air raid on Tokyo would have continued.
V.J. Day was a big, big deal to the whole world. That sailor symbolized the servicemen who fought and suvived the conflict. The nurse symbolized the caring and suffering that went along with the war. The war was over. The holocausts under Hitler were over. The rape of China by the Japanese was over.
The other picture is not an icon. There are tons of photos of same sex couples kissing. Nothing about these two men is unique or sybolic.
@maniac_rose - another what?
@Imnotcrazyjustinsane - Agreed.
@musinuite - That’s the first thing that popped into my head -.-’
@bodyheartmindsoul - Thanks for the article! And yeah I agree with you too.
Kissing is kissing.
One’s classic (you can’t see their faces), the other you can see their faces. It takes away the awesomeness.
ewww….hot….
yes.
@TheSmokeMonster - and yet for some reason YOU noticed…? bwahaha
There’s more people in the second picture.
Well, yes, there is a difference, I think – but it doesn’t have anything to do with sexual preference… more to do with photographic ability.
Actually, I don’t like that second photo. A classic it may be. But I don’t like it.
He’s bending her over way too far. His arms are gripping her and her arms aren’t even touching him. There’s nothing pleasant about it. It doesn’t look terribly consensual.
I don’t pretend to know the people in the photo. I don’t. But I like the fact that the men in the first pic look like they both want to be there.
@MomGoneMadd - LOL!! Love that comment.
to me, yes.
@Iobot - lololololol
The first picture shows an interracial couple, I am totally against that. Lol, I kid I kid.
Nope
the first kiss sceeves me out
the second just seeems…..so much better
doesn’t bother me
@ShimmerBodyCream - Well with women getting hot in the pants by this picture, there’s a potential for another baby boom right?
the significance of the context of the second picture somewhat skews your data
Yeah, it’s not got a girl in it.
In my eyes – There is no difference, People are just ignorant!
The second picture is actually a little offensive to me. A lot of people don’t realize that those two people don’t even know each other. This sailor kid was just running down the street sexually assaulting girls, and somebody happened to get a picture of it.
also i can’t stand looking at guy/guy couples or het. couples kissing. ugh
The second one is from the second world war.. why did you use that one to compare?
I don’t know…a kiss is a kiss.
@BB61 - How is the first one not a cultural icon? It’s the mark of an era that recognizes people for who they are; that it took the invention of pictures in color to publicly visualize both a love and struggle between the most stigmatized, verbally abused, and hated individuals in the WORLD; that today’s culture is multiple times more openminded than that of a previous closeminded, homophobic generation. It’s the same representation, whether male and female, male and male, female and female, or any other orientations that have utilized their ability to love in black and white or in color.
The difference? Depleted.
Great post.
The second kiss looks better. Not because of gender or anything, just because it looks like a better kiss in general. Those guys need to get their passion on.
I agree with TheModernBunny. The men in the first picture both look like they want to be there. It leaves a warm and fuzzy feeling inside, something that everyone should feel more often.
i think a kiss is a kiss but i think people are stating its not b/c its two men. if it were 2 women i am sure people wouldnt have as much of a problem with it.
Jesus Christ, you couldn’t find a more chaste kiss… and at least it looks like they actually KNOW each other!
No.
@BB61 - After the first one baby boom, I think that might be preferable. lol
@musinuite - That’s what I thought :p
I’d rather see the first which is a peck on the lips than the second which is a make-out session…No PDA thanks..
You know how it is-some ignoant ass is always going to complain about something.
The people in the second picture aren’t even married.
I am offended.
The difference is that this is 2010. Not 1920. All the homophobes should start living in the present.
@BB61 - Thank you. I knew a Patriot would say was I was thinking and beat me to the punch. The second kiss isn’t just a heterosexual exchange; it’s about bubbling over with joy and jubuliation. It’s about having pride in your country’s defeat of evil. The second picture is more than a picture of just a kiss. It’s a snapshot of how the country felt at that point in time.
@ShimmerBodyCream - word.
Love is Love.
biggest difference as far as I can tell is one is color print and one is black and white.
interracial couple alert.
i am offended.
well, other than the obvious social message contained in the classic photograph expressing victory over the war,
i think that the top one is just one step in that direction… it looks like a European type of kiss anyhow to me anyway… i don’t find either offensive.
i think America is still a dead elephant chained to the rest of the northern hemisphere in their collective inability to let go of ideas which, some how have been translated as “morals”…
.it should really be more about who you kill, not who you love…. then there is still the south…
@BB61 - Are you freaking serious?
@Morningstarrising - Oh, good, I wasn’t the only one thinking this.
I could say that there ARE differences between the two pictures but to answer your main point, no. A kiss is a kiss
@Iobot - @ShimmerBodyCream - @MangoWOW -
win.
The second picture didn’t load for me, but assuming that it’s just going to be a straight couple….
Yes…
Seeing the first kiss is relieving to me. I see it as acceptance towards a gay couple kissing (that is, when posted without hateful words behind it), and like we are moving forward and away from such ridiculous hate.
I also see it differently when a gay couple kisses in public. Like, they are able to feel comfortable enough to kiss in a public place because they feel people are accepting it more. Or perhaps their love is so strong that they don’t care what people think.
@MomGoneMadd - Hard to avoid fat, ugly cunts. They kinda blot out fields of vision.
Well, as a straight dude I think the first one is gross, but I also think fat people are gross. Part of being an adult is not stirring up shit over something that doesn’t involve you in any way. Really, it boggles my mind that people are so pathetic as to claim they have the privilege to deny others their rights.
love is love.
why can’t people see this? goddamn.
first picture is actually way sweeter, in my opinion. doesn’t look like one’s trying to get in the others pants. or dress, in this case.
I don’t feel anything while looking at either.
Obviously they’re different.
One picture – they are both guys.
The other picture – a man and a female.
Is the kiss the same? Yes. But they both differ because of that one thing. If that makes sense.
gay kisses are hawt.
Ah, the ahistory of the young. In the second picture, both sailor and nurse were estatic that the Second World War was over and the USA was victorious.
If Newspapers want to survive they gotta change with these gay times, I say full on Analingus on the front page
Yes. The sailor’s in the wrong photo (HAHA)
@flight_of_angels - It’s not a cultural icon because it is no unique in it’s scope nor it’s place and time. VJ day was a unique day. There are plenty of other photos of men kissing women that are not unique. This is just another photo of two men kissing.
You can’t see the face of either the sailor or the nurse. It’s a moment in time of great symbolism. It’s the sheer euporia of the war being ended. It’s not staged, it’s history as it happened.
The flag raising on Mt. Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima is also an iconic photos. It was a random snapshot that was on the roll of film. Joe Rosenthal, when he heard his photo made national headlines thought it was the staged one he posed the Marines for. The fact that it showed no faces made those six men iconic as a representation of all who served there. We really didn’t need to know it was Mike Strank, Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, or Ira Hayes.
Two guys at a rally catching a smooch might be nice, but it’s no more unique than hundreds of other photos.
@Orlando - I don’t think that sailor had any intention of killing that nurse.
I don’t seen an issue with either one.
Of course it’s different. One is of two boys kissing. One is of one boy and one girl kissing. Different, no?
Maybe the scandal over the photo on the cover of the The Washington Post is going too far than it should. Somebody had told me that there was a case that a picture of that medication for erectile dysfunction Viagra Online was shown in the cover of that newspaper.
Both are perfectly normal. (Although I prefer gay kissing than straight) I admit it’s not often you’d see gay kissing unless you look for it, but the more it’s shown… the more people will grow to accept it. I’m bisexual myself, and I think it’s wrong how some people class Homosexual people as “wrong”
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