I am a fairly tolerant person, or at least I am becoming more accepting of differences. For instance, my former rule of never dating a smoker again has been broken, and though I don't like smoking at all, it doesn't mean that I don't like the person.
However, I am an intolerant person when it comes to ugly things like homophobic comments. Is this the fortnight of slurs or something? Why was I not told about this? Two of my guy friends have recently thrown "fag" around like it was a wiffle ball. One of them tossed in "lesbo" to be an equal opportunity asshole. When I said, "I don't like those words," the reply was, "You should know I'm just pushing people's buttons." When I countered that those words are not funny and are inappropriate, I was told to relax.
Oh, relax!
I plan to do no such thing when these people whip out "fag" or "dyke" and then excuse it by saying, "Oh come on, I have gay friends." Yeah, well, so do I, and guess what? They don't like being called fags and dykes. Besides, having gay friends isn't a license for heterosexual guys to use slurs. Inevitably when I gently bring this up, I am told that I am "too PC." That's a shallow argument that reduces the issue to one of "is not/are too."
Homophobia is one of the ugliest things I hate, mostly because it's a fear and hatred of love. So you can bet I'll keep yapping my PC mouth, from here till pink angles try...
However, I am an intolerant person when it comes to ugly things like homophobic comments. Is this the fortnight of slurs or something? Why was I not told about this? Two of my guy friends have recently thrown "fag" around like it was a wiffle ball. One of them tossed in "lesbo" to be an equal opportunity asshole. When I said, "I don't like those words," the reply was, "You should know I'm just pushing people's buttons." When I countered that those words are not funny and are inappropriate, I was told to relax.
Oh, relax!
I plan to do no such thing when these people whip out "fag" or "dyke" and then excuse it by saying, "Oh come on, I have gay friends." Yeah, well, so do I, and guess what? They don't like being called fags and dykes. Besides, having gay friends isn't a license for heterosexual guys to use slurs. Inevitably when I gently bring this up, I am told that I am "too PC." That's a shallow argument that reduces the issue to one of "is not/are too."
Homophobia is one of the ugliest things I hate, mostly because it's a fear and hatred of love. So you can bet I'll keep yapping my PC mouth, from here till pink angles try...
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