Straight Pride (1 Viewer)

[zeetes]

To be fair, 95% of gay people in America under age 40 have also not had any of those things happen to them.

makes no sense. we celebrate several things none of us have been alive for.

historically, when has being straight been an issue for anyone? never. in fact, it has been automatically assumed and accepted.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

makes no sense. we celebrate several things none of us have been alive for.

historically, when has being straight been an issue for anyone? never. in fact, it has been automatically assumed and accepted.

well...in my 20s i could have drank for free plenty of nights if i wasn't straight
so it's not a life or death issue, but free drinks are free drinks

 

[Dago]

International Left Handers Day is August 13. Mark your calendar!

It was created in 1976, in order to "to celebrate certain people's sinistrality and raise awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of being left-handed in a predominantly right-handed world. It celebrates their uniqueness and differences, who are from seven to ten percent of the world's population.[1] The day also spread awareness on issues faced by left-handers e.g. the importance of the special needs for left-handed kids, and also the likelihood for left-handers to develop schizophrenia.[2]"

being left-handed used to be associated with the devil. The world is predominately for the right-handed's convenience. I don't mind someone setting a goal to, you know, try and move people past thinking left hand = Satan. When my cousin showed a preference for left-handedness, my aunt would punish him, forcing him to use his right, because she didn't believe it was 'right' (no pun intended)

I think it's made a difference - at least generally, the awareness. My wife's sister is left-handed, born in 1978. She now has a left-handed child and two of our 3 kids are left handed. She's routinely talked about how much more convenient things are, in a general sense in the way of accommodation and left-handed options, for her own child than it was for her.

My wife and I are both right handed, but have already come across some 'ugh' moments of frustration with our lefties. It's caused us to think about left handedness more.

So while the comparison might seem trivial - and I get it - I think there's some utility in the argument and example when it comes to the efficacy of awareness and accommodation.

What if I am left handed but am right hand dominate when it comes to one particular activity. Does that make me a closet case self loather?

 

[Dago]

To be fair, 95% of gay people in America under age 40 have also not had any of those things happen to them.

I would like to see what facts you are basing that on.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

What if I am left handed but am right hand dominate when it comes to one particular activity. Does that make me a closet case self loather?

i believe the term is gauche cuck

 

[Dago]

i believe the term is gauche cuck

So I am also an elitist piece of sheet?

Scratch that one off the old bucket list

 

[zeetes]

well...in my 20s i could have drank for free plenty of nights if i wasn't straight
so it's not a life or death issue, but free drinks are free drinks

nerd.

 

[RazorOye]

What if I am left handed but am right hand dominate when it comes to one particular activity. Does that make me a closet case self loather?

sounds like you might be my cousin

 

[Heathen Saint]

Ok, good for you. I judge people based on their behavior, how they treat people, their work effect, and their inner moral compass. As do most poeple who are just living their lives day to day stuggling to take care of their families. if your happy, fine, most of us don't care. If you unhappy and stuggling with the same issue as the rest of us, fine, we don't care. If your a jerk, your a jerk, and i'm not going to be extra nice to a jerk just because their gay. How you behave has more of an impact then any label you put on youself, and its the day to day living and treating people with respect in families and co-workers that change the view of the planet where most don't think people that are gay are any different from anyone else...not parades.

So what you’re saying is that you’re gonna March with us next year? Glad to have you. I’ll even buy you a few beers. Gay people (and people different than you in general) don’t bite.

I mean, unless you’re into that

 

[dtc]

Yes, few minds will be changed by this but I think it's important to try to make headway. Although, the more you try to "win" the less you actually do any good I think.

Gay pride festivals exist because for a long time it was a crime to be gay. To this day, people still get disowned from their families, lose their jobs, get assaulted, and so on for being gay. Gay pride parade and events exist to help people stop feeling ashamed for being who they are, and to provide support to let them know they are not alone.

I suspect over time, they'll just become another festival like St. Patrick's day -- some communities will be more into it than others.

St Patrick's Day is usually a drunk fest with a bunch of idiots dressing up in leprechaun suits and puking on green beer. Sometimes there are scantily clad women in tight fitting green stuff.

What sort of festival will Gay Pride Day become?

 

[dtc]

i have been herassed for being heterosexual, both in school and the in the workplace by gay students and co-workers.

I have been in gay bars that didn't hide the fact i wasn't welcome there.

We'll every company i have worked for since the early 90's has banned employment discrimination based on sexual preference even when the labor laws didn't require it, but i have lost jobs because i worse a mullet and and ear ring once. (yes i'm being serious)

Since the supreme court stated that laws banning gay marriage were unconstitutional based on the equal protection clause of the US constitution, 14th amendment i think it was, gay people have the exact same constitution rights as anyone else. So this there is no mass infringement going on based on sexual orientation.

Prior to sodomy laws being struct down in the late 80's, it was rare, but occasionally both straight and gay people had been charged for violating sodomy laws. other then that, there no laws criminalizing homosexuality so no one is arresting for just being gay. you might be arrested for violating some other law, and it your rude to an office, they won't cut you any slack, gay or not.

in high school was harassed and assault (but not "beaten to a pulp") several times for being a "gay", by 3 young men who later came out of the closet as gay.

don't have any personal experience to relate to that, but i have seen where people were killed for being black, white, having money, not having money, being in the wrong place, getting involved with the wrong people, white trash, getto blocks, middle class whites, upper class wives, and don't think in 99% of the cases the murder cared who their victim slept with, but if the murder of a gay person is a greater crime then the murder of a person in general fine, i'm sure i can walk though south central LA with wads of cash wearing a white power t-shirt and since i'm straight, no one will tempted to physical assault me at all.


i do find it interesting that the biggest threat to gay people that they have ever faced is something the LGBTQ movement never talks about, and that's the AIDS epidemic of the 80's and 90's. I guess it never happened since all those straight people worked so hard to try and put an end to it.

Are you seriously telling us you got beat up by three gay dudes?

That's allsome!

What did they do, slap you with their scarves?

The rest of that post is sadder than a little girl at a build a doll store whose daddy runs out of money before the doll gets stuffing.

 

[kcirdor]

Are you seriously telling us you got beat up by three gay dudes?

That's allsome!

What did they do, slap you with their scarves?

The rest of that post is sadder than a little girl at a build a doll store whose daddy runs out of money before the doll gets stuffing.

Lol.. what if this was black dudes beating him up.. what racist "scarf" comment would you have used in it's place?

If we are so concerned with everyone's feelings than I guess we have NO EXCEPTIONS, right?

 

[dtc]

Lol.. what if this was black dudes beating him up.. what racist "scarf" comment would you have used in it's place?

If we are so concerned with everyone's feelings than I guess we have NO EXCEPTIONS, right?

He wouldn't have told us he got beat up by 3 black dudes because that wouldn't have allowed him to have been victimized by the gays which is, afterall, the point of this thread.

 

[SystemShock]

Lol.. what if this was black dudes beating him up.. what racist "scarf" comment would you have used in it's place?

If we are so concerned with everyone's feelings than I guess we have NO EXCEPTIONS, right?

As threads progress, your posts get less coherent and more straw manny.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Lol.. what if this was black dudes beating him up.. what racist "scarf" comment would you have used in it's place?

If we are so concerned with everyone's feelings than I guess we have NO EXCEPTIONS, right?

actually for me the getting beat up by 3 closeted guys was the most believable part of his litany of oddities
plenty of closeted butch queens have been gay bashers
but of course for his anecdote to work, it would have to be their 'gayness' as the reason they were violent and not the closeted shame