By the Way: Buy Ford

[womzilla]

If you happen to be in the market for a new car, and you happen to have narrowed down your choices to a [something] or a Ford, and you're deeply undecided, I recommend that you buy a Ford.

Why? Because the lunatics at the American Family Association--Christianist totalitarians, the type of people who oppose sex because it might lead to dancing--have been targeting Ford for over a year because Ford insists on treating gay people like human beings.

Just so you know.

Signed,

a proud Ford owner

Comments

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

When I was a lad in Merrick, NY, I noticed that my neighbor Jeffrey's mom always, always, always wore long-sleeved shirts. It never occurred to me, in those more innocent days, that this might be a sign of spousal abuse.

Well, one day, a third friend's mom invited the both of us to the community swimming pool over in Bellmore, offering to drive. Jeff's mom said, "No, I'll drive," with a great deal of finality. Eddie's mom asked why, and she said, "Because you drive a Ford. My family do not ride in Fords."

In those more innocent days, I asked why. Mrs. P. said, "Some years ago, Henry Ford received a medal from the same man who gave me this," and she rolled up her sleeve and showed me a tattoo: just a bunch of numbers, but I knew what they meant.

And that is why I never have owned and never will own a Ford.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I can certainly understand that reaction. As I said to Patrick above, though, Ford is now the chosen enemy of the heirs to the Nazi tradition. The world is a moving target.