Thank you. This post is exactly how i feel about the whole thing. The more you talk about it, the more divided you become. Just be. That freeman video is spot on
Are gay folks getting too much attention?
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Thank you. This post is exactly how i feel about the whole thing. The more you talk about it, the more divided you become. Just be. That freeman video is spot on
Yeah, in the same way that white pride isn't about people who aren't "white". Obviously.
Any biological group pride ideology is about everyone, whether they're the target or not. In the case of gay pride, heterosexual people are the target and so it's very much about them.
It's not representative of society though, I have number of gay friends who I've known for years, they don't tell me details of their relationships or advertise their sexuality at every opportunity, generally speaking it's not discussed at all because there isn't any reason too.
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I swear people watch these flamboyant, very out there gay characters on TV and assume all gay people are like that.
Tbf, I think there is reason too. Prejudice is born of ignorance, and there's only one way to fight ignorance...
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It is representative. As you said your friends are just normal guys who don't go on about it. How is that meant to translate on the screen. If they didn't tell you they were gay or put themselves into gay situations how is one meant to know?
TV/Movies are just a hyperreal representation of the cross section of society. There are gay characters because it shows that there are gay people who are "normal" whatever that is.
TV/Movies are just a hyperreal representation of the cross section of society. There are gay characters because it shows that there are gay people who are "normal" whatever that is.
I only know the figure as they have just had a Diversity and Inclusion programme launched, 4% of our staff are also veterans, and 5% have a disability.
You left out the "imo" at the end of all that.
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The world doesn't revolve around you though. There are thousands of kids and even adults struggling with their sexuality. Seeing gay characters in TV shows helps promote acceptance and diversity.
I'd take your discomfort over 40% transgender suicide attempt rate and the second highest rated cause of young adult death, suicide because of their sexuality.
I'd take your discomfort over 40% transgender suicide attempt rate and the second highest rated cause of young adult death, suicide because of their sexuality.
If you think you're going to change someone attitude by being forcing the issue again and again then i think you need to reassess you thinking on the human mind. People general just want to live there lives and pushing the subject constantly will make people tired of it all. For example, I want to sit down and watch Dr Who again without being preached at on the latest SJW political rant. I just want to watch good sci-fi, now that's been ruined since it's return but to be fair it's a lot better now since Steven Moffat took over
And now in movies it's some sort of crime to be a white man who does anything positive or saves the day (How dare he!!!!) Only the Marvel movies do this right, perhaps that's why every Marvel film does gangbusters in the cinema and everything else is bombing badly in the last few years?
100% prejudice is born out of ignorance, but the method and vehicle of educating people is massively important.
Gay pride IMO damages the method.
To the ignorant watching the LGBT community turn themselves into a stereotype is tantamount to a red rag to a bull in exposing the very differences that these people are afraid of.
Normalization needs to show that the LGBT community are just like everybody else. By all means have a 'gay' character in a TV series or movie, but dont let their sexuality define them when it really isnt relevant.
Its opinion and how one feels, its exactly the reason why we all have to tolerate living with each other. That is civilisation. So no, no deletion at all.
You're repeatedly lying about and slandering people. You're acting as such an aggressive way and blaming the target of your abuse that you couldn't be more of a cliche if you were demanding "Did you spill my pint?" in someone's face.
If you're trying to promote prejudice against homosexuals, you're going about it the right way and you're a very unpleasant person.
If you're not, you're a fool and you're a very unpleasant person.
There are things I don't need to know.
I sort of see where you're coming from... but at the same time I sort of think "who cares?".
Yeah, it's such a difficult subject to talk about... I don't even think it's half as complicated as we all tend to make it out to be.
All I'll say is (before I go off to drink my weight in Gin) it's been mostly refreshing reading some of the points here. It's not the usual cess pit of extremes that one so often finds in GD threads. Have a good weekend all, no matter who's warming the other side of your bed!
Are you really going to carry on comparing gay pride with white supremacist movements. It's completely absurd. I don't even know where to start.
Also your constant assertion that any expression of pride HAS to be motivated in every case by your own personally defined and very specific set of criteria is a ridiculous oversimplification of human psychology and behaviour in general. Yet ironically you have constantly accused people of this same kind of simplemindedness and black and white thinking.
Every show seems to have the token gay guy/couple now, it's not very subtle at all, real life is rarely like that, you can know people for years and never really know them.
But as you said, it's TV so they will go overboard.
But at the same time if you keep talking about it you turn somebody that isn't an issue into one.
I'm not convinced that tolerance is a despicable thing. In fact, I think it's a very good thing.
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Try and catch up, I thought his post was an attack and I apologised for it. Not sure why me being a fool somehow gives people a free pass to hate all gay people. It seems like you are looking for the smallest excuse to do so.
It's the way in which he used it. Saying you tolerate something means you think you are in a superior position and allowing something you feel is inferior to happen.
I suggest starting by reading what I've actually written. I have never compared gay pride with white supremacist movements.
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