Are you Homophobic?

MeEsH BaKkA · 17 Jul 2011 at 11:59

I strongly dislike camp men and I mean seriously detest.

Gay people on the other hand are fine, infact my mum is a lesbian and had girlfriends and a civil partenership since she divorced my dad when I was about 8.

The only thing I have noticed is the gay people I have met tend to be a bit issuey, I cant realy explain it but it always seems their sexuality is an easy arguing point for them. So much im gay deal with it etc...

1LANCS · 17 Jul 2011 at 11:59

mglover070588 said:
Surely that also means people cannot help their dislikes for them too?

I dont like tomatos but i dont feel sick when i see them and demand that all tomatos stay away from me, its an illogical response.

OpenToSuggestions · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:00

1LANCS said:
Nonsense like this annoys me.

Why do you care if someones camp? look away and walk away problem solved its not like they are going to jump on you and rape you. Gays are like straights, there are all types, would you feel the same about a camp straight guy?

Why do gays have to stay away from you, if you saw a straight couple walking down the street holding hands i bet you a million quid no one would bat an eyelid, but if it was two guys holding hands they would get looks and abuse, why the double standard?

Also gays can have kids too, there are other ways than the 'correct' way.

I just would just prefer the person not to be gay. Being gay is an undesirable quality in a person. It is not normal.

1LANCS said:
I dont like tomatos but i dont feel sick when i see them and demand that all tomatos stay away from me, its an illogical response.

What on earth are you on about?

1LANCS · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:00

MeEsH BaKkA said:
The only thing I have noticed is the gay people I have met tend to be a bit issuey, I cant realy explain it but it always seems their sexuality is an easy arguing point for them. So much im gay deal with it etc...

Maybe because they are sick of being beat up, spat at, abused, murdered just for being gay?

mglover070588 said:
I just would just prefer the person not to be gay. Being gay is an undesirable quality in a person. It is not normal.

Why is it undesirable?

Hastarius · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:01

mglover070588 said:
Being homosexual goes against the sole reason you are alive, which is to reproduce.

Look where that has got us though...overpopulation and inevitable destruction of the Earth

Nitefly · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:01

mglover070588 said:
Surely that also means people cannot help their dislikes for them too?

Well, he was agreeing with me, so yes.

As long as you don't hold anything against people, then there isn't really a problem.

OpenToSuggestions · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:01

1LANCS said:
Maybe because they are sick of being beat up, spat at, abused, murdered just for being gay?

This isn't some central African country. This is Britain.

OpenToSuggestions · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:02

Nitefly said:
Well, he was agreeing with me, so yes.

As long as you don't hold anything against people, then there isn't really a problem.

I don't hold anything against them, I just dislike it and would rather they didn't walk mince down the street broping they boyfriend's ass.

Nitefly · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:02

mglover070588 said:
Being gay is an undesirable quality in a person.

No, that's rubbish. Doesn't make a difference at all!

1LANCS · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:03

mglover070588 said:
This isn't some central African country. This is Britain.

Yet you read in the news about people being assaulted and kicked until they are so badly injured they die in hospital, my best mate is gay and has a partner, they just mind their own business and like holding hands, the amount of abuse and people spitting at them is disgusting, just because you dont see it doesnt mean it doesnt happen.

Castiel · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:03

mglover070588 said:
Surely that also means people cannot help their dislikes for them too?

You can help your reactions to those dislikes however.

britboy4321 · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:04

WHo out of the 'non-homophobics' have called someone, or an action they take, 'gay'??

I certainly know I have many times .. yet consider myself 100% NOT homophobic.

MeEsH BaKkA · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:04

1LANCS said:
Maybe because they are sick of being beat up, spat at, abused, murdered just for being gay?

lol

Im sure its no different to any other minority group, infact I will go out on a limb and say that there are probably much more difficult things you can be other than gay.

Tombstone · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:05

britboy4321 said:
WHo out of the 'non-homophobics' have called someone, or an action they take, 'gay'??

I certainly know I have many times .. yet consider myself 100% NOT homophobic.

I haven't, its not a phrase I use as I'm not 12

OpenToSuggestions · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:05

1LANCS said:
Yet you read in the news about people being assaulted and kicked until they are so badly injured they die in hospital, my best mate is gay and has a partner, they just mind their own business and like holding hands, the amount of abuse and people spitting at them is disgusting, just because you dont see it doesnt mean it doesnt happen.

He has a boyfriend, why do people call it a 'partner'?!
Have you ever thought that people don't approve of what they are doing and think that what they are doing is immoral and disgusting?

Castiel said:
You can help your reactions to those dislikes however.

Very true. I don't like it but I don't throw beer bottles at them.

Deadbeat · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:06

britboy4321 said:
I'm not homophobic.

Even been chatted up a couple of times by men .. just 'no thanks mate' but still carry on talking to them if they're interesting people ..

BUT when playing LFD2 and my mates are going to slowly or being somehow retarded, I will regularly say over the mic they're 'playing like a gay' over skype. The phrase is so common I don't even think of homosexuality when I say it .. its more a 'generic insult'. Hard to explain ..

Point makes perfect sense, if you share the opinion. I've also been chatted up by a few guys (it's inevitable if you go to gay bars) and find it quite flattering. Once or twice they've been a bit gay (hur hur) about taking no for an answer, but you just scale up how firm you are about your lack of interest and they get the point sooner or later.

Nearly got date-raped in a gay bar once. Drank a few too many shots, chucked up in the loo and there was a small white pill floating before the flush which wasn't there when I started. Then a guy I'd chatted to earlier was being a bit too insistent on the dance floor after I'd already rebuffed him once. Nearly ended in a fight, but he disappeared a few minutes later.

1LANCS · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:06

MeEsH BaKkA said:
lol

Im sure its no different to any other minority group, infact I will go out on a limb and say that there are probably much more difficult things you can be other than gay.

So that somehow cheapens or lessens the severity of the abuse of being gay?

Nitefly · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:07

Tombstone said:
I haven't, its not a phrase I use as I'm not 12

It is very immature, but I'm not going to deny that I use the word gay as a playful insult on occasion.

As stated, I think this will be 'ironed' out in the next generation (under the helm of Piccard).

OpenToSuggestions · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:07

1LANCS said:
So that somehow cheapens or lessens the severity of the abuse of being gay?

They use it as in excuse. The people who make the biggest deal about being gay, are gays.

1LANCS · 17 Jul 2011 at 12:08

mglover070588 said:
He has a boyfriend, why do people call it a 'partner'?!
Have you ever thought that people don't approve of what they are doing and think that what they are doing is immoral and disgusting?

Because of what you just said, if you are a guy and say you have a boyfriend then you get the ridiculous crap you come out with slinged at them, if they say partner it could mean boy or girl.