Do you remember which "hate" groups you were in during 1985?

[undeterred]

:shrug:

[DS1]

1. The "We hate Z100 in NYC" club

[bertha katzenengel]

2. Operation Rescue.

I still don't consider it a "hate" group in exactly the same way that way many do, but I was a member. I used to try to stop women from going into PP clinics. :shame:

[undeterred]

6. really?

I guess I wasn't expecting a serious answer...

In that case I should fess up that 20 years ago I tried to talk gay friends out of being gay - which didnt work and I hurt them and ruined the friendships.

This year I am going to campaign against the "defense of marriage" amendment and do public speaking for it. Kind of funny to realize how you can end up in the opposite place from where you started.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Interesting

What changed your mind?

[undeterred]

13. Probably the loss of those two friendships, more than anything else

One male, the other female. I was never nasty about it, but I am a Christian and I believed it was wrong and that people had a choice about their sexual orientation. I got to know these two people well enough to understand that they really didn't have a choice. I realized I was judgmental and that this was wrong, and I resolved to be totally accepting of any gay people I met in the future. Now I have lots of gay friends.

I decided to work on the campaign- and do speaking primarily in churches- because I understand their reasoning so well, and I think some people would listen to me. I now believe that because I am a Christian I should speak up for gay peoples rights to marriage equality.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Oops, sorry

My question was directed at Bertha. :blush:

But your story is interesting, too. :hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

27. I truly can't say. It was part of a shift that took years --

and that included my coming out of the closet, coming out for reproductive rights, re-thinking my blind devotion to fundamentalist beliefs (and their ultimate rejection), and serious psychotherapy.

I think the short answer is that I began to think. But honestly, I barely remember my life from about 1984 until I turned 30, almost ten years later.

[Dave Reynolds]

3. I wasn't in one,

and I think I would remember it.

Guess I don't qualify for SCOTUS now.

[salin]

4. certainly not hate, and not a group, but I found Halls and Oates

particularly annoying. Does that count?

[undeterred]

7. nah... theres room for diversity of opinion on that one

[SofaKingLiberal]

5. I do not recall, Senator.

:yoiks:

[datasuspect]

8. i was in the "big up bk buckwild bucktown rock steady crew"

and we sported our gear funky fresh yo

[skygazer]

9. I think that falls into my "I hate my husband" years

Since several other people hated my husband too, I would say it qualifies as a group.

[Ptah]

10. Sheet Metal Workers. Local #xxx n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. American Federation of Teachers here

[RandomKoolzip]

12. Yeah. "Fifth Graders Against Principal Walsh's Now-and-Later Ban."

Or FGAPWNALB for short.

[libnnc]

15. My best friend in Jr. High started a 'Ban Romance League'

she kept it until she went to summer camp and met this hunky guy...:shrug:

[flamingyouth]

16. The "Boy, I Really Fucking Hate High School" one.

[flamingyouth]

17. Oh, and "I Hate The '80s" one too.

[AlCzervik]

32. hey i was also a charter member of that club too.

:toast:

[two gun sid]

18. US Military in Central America...

with the Contras. I still feel dirty.

[Emops]

19. The "I Hate My Clothes" group

I was 2 after all...

[Reverend_Smitty]

21. lol I was in that group too!

Central Jersey chapter

[u4ic]

22. The "I hate the world" group

I was "that" age...:eyes:

[no name no slogan]

24. mmmm, teenage angst

Rock on!

(me circa 1983/84)

[hunter]

36. I was in that group too, and I was old enough to know better.

I hated Ronald Reagan (I still do, but that lucky rat bastard probably got into heaven because he honestly couldn't remember anything.)

I hated nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.

I hated the big corporations that were destroying the earth.

I hated all the people who had used me, and rarely acknowledged all the good people who had helped me.

I was sweet chocolate on the outside and unstable toxic waste on the inside; spit me out awful bad.

[LeftyMom]

23. We Hate Kindergarten!

I was four.

[RumpusCat]

38. I was four as well

:hi: I believe I was in the 'Bedtime Before 9 is a Travesty' hate group... I've always been a night owl.

[El Fuego]

25. The Sierra Club

[DanCa]

26. Dungeons and Dragons club at college I swear it wasn't me(nt)

[underpants]

28. The Senior class

High School

[Call Me Wesley]

29. I was a member of

the Fourth International. Boy, did we hate imperialism.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. The "I Hate Rachel Greene" club...

...well I would have been...if she were real...and we went to the same high school. ;) :hi:

[ProfessorGAC]

31. I Was In A Glam Band. Rednecks Really Hated That. Does This Count?

The Professor

[StaggerLee]

33. I hated high school

You remember the movie The Breakfast Club? Well our school was like that but worse. And I didn't fit into any cliques at all.

Got my mom to sign me into the U.S.N at 17.

Of course I had already decided that I was going in when I was 12 so I had a lot of time to think about it.


May I have the SCOTUS job now?

[kick-ass-bob]

34. I was in the "IHSDP"

"I Hate the San Diego Padres"

It took me a long time to get over the 1984 NLCS.

:(

[madinmaryland]

35. I hated disco. Was that 70's or 80's

Does that count?

:shrug:

[Jokerman]

37. The Ball State Student Association

We weren't much of a hate group but we could throw a mean party!

[DBoon]

39. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) - "Jello Biafra Caucus"

A few of us 20-something socialists who wanted to annoy the aging hippies in that organization

[Liberalynn]

40. Nope I wasn't in one

but I rememember I wanted to start an "I hate Marlena" on Days of Our Lives Club.:P

[CottonBear]

41. The national Landscape Architecture Honor Society.

It was a really radical and dangerous group filled with hate for bad site design. ;)

[anarch]

42. Mid-Atlantic Fedora Club

Oh, wait. That's a "hat" group.

[sasquatch]

43. My mother had me in the "Michigan Sucks" group when I was 5 then

:shrug:
Does that count.

[ghostsofgiants]

44. Newborns Against Wombs