So, I think I can sum up this rapidly evolving thread.
You can't be proud of yourself if you're straight. Because the only way you could be is to spite gays. (Somehow)
Treating people like garbage based on their skin color and generalizations are not cool. Unless we're talking about how all white people oppressed blacks. And how all straight people have been oppressing gays.
And your opinion doesn't matter until someone hurls a brick at you.
Yep. Standard LGBT thread.
Humans are tribal just like in the stone age and will always find a way to group themselves together whether it be race, religion, or sexuality but we are moving toward a future where those that think like that are becoming so minuscule that you should be able to brush it aside as a crazy persons rantings. And yes I speak as an American and I understand that other countries such as in the middle east homosexuality is actually a crime.
I honestly feel that the whole PC movement just makes things worse by bringing attention to our differences rather than just letting people learn for themselves what's what.
I'm curious if in my lifetime humans will just be humans
Being straight or bisexual is fun. You get to blame nothing or no one but yourself and your own mistakes when something goes wrong while being told that everything is going swimmingly for you in life because you are straight or bisexual.
#illstayoutofyourbedroomifyoudontbringyourbedroomintothestreet
Me thinks Chromie has a whole lot of splaining to do!
As others have said before (and I'm sure have said again after this post), pride parades have little to do with pride or celebration. They are an attempt to remove the social stigma involved in it and the horrible psychological harm that is done by shitty people in an intolerant society. (Don't assume the rest of this post is directed at you; just using it as a jumping-off point.)
Suicide rates among gay teens is 2-6 times that of their heterosexual counterparts; estimates put it anywhere from 30-50% of gay teens who will attempt to take their own lives. If your parents didn't accept your sexuality, you're fucked: You're six times more likely to suffer from depression and three times more likely to be a drug addict. One in four gay students students report being harassed or bullied for their sexuality, and that rises to one in three for transgender students.
It is a big deal. And it is precisely what pride parades are meant to combat: The idea that there's something wrong with you or that the world is out to get you or that your life is going to be a living hell because you don't love who somebody else tells you you should love. Moreover, exposure works as a solution to these problems. Every time somebody attempts to study how the gay rights movement managed to achieve so much success in such a relatively short period of time they come to the same conclusion: More and more people who somebody who is gay. Moving sexuality out of the closet is literally working.
Furthermore, I think people should study their histories. There is a reason that June is gay pride month. There is a reason that most major cities have their parades the weekend nearest to June 28th: It is the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when riots erupted when police tried to arrest the occupants of a gay bar for nothing more than their sexuality, and the beginning of the LGBTQ rights movement. We aren't talking about some ancient history here; there are people alive who remember it. And given that four dozen gay people were just murdered, and days later pastors popped up telling us how great that was, there is clearly still work to be done.
And yet there's still a group of people who will participate in something as idiotic, uninformed or outright bigoted as "Heterosexual Pride Day" for nothing more than an attempt to slap people who are trying to do good in the world in the face and proclaim they somehow had it coming. Because reasons.
“Nostalgia was like a disease, one that crept in and stole the colour from the world and the time you lived in. Made for bitter people. Dangerous people, when they wanted back what never was.” -- Steven Erikson, The Crippled God
Hey, at least they look like they could potentially be fathers. Lately it seems like everyone gets it wrong and they celebrate that they have a father instead. :P
Nothing is lovelier than a bunch of kids puking everywhere.
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Then stop being bothered by morons; as if any of this would have any real implications in your real life.