>> "Being artists, old, hipster, gay/lesbian, etc shouldn't give anyone special rights to claim that they need to be specially immunized from the pressures of t

>> "Being artists, old, hipster, gay/lesbian, etc shouldn't give anyone special rights to claim that they need to be specially immunized from the pressures of the world." Really? pressures of the world? Those peeps you mention know a whole lot about the world--prolly any one knows more than the two of us combined. Pressures from the free market and capitalism is more like it. I rewatched the scifi movie IRobot last week. You know the one where Will Smith's character hates robots. Robots are everywhere doing great things for people--helping the elderly, doing crappy jobs--but his prejudice blinds him from all the good. He's obviously obsessed and paranoid. No way, the three laws make it impossible for anything bad to happen. What could go wrong? That was fun movie.