CaptinSarcastic
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Re: Jason Collins (NBA Center) announces that he is gay, altering the landscape of sp
Fascinating.
You don't even recognize your own bigotry.
I would find two men engaged in a liplock to be disgusting as well, but I would find two hot girls making out to be the opposite. And neither has anything to do with my acceptance of them as people. A morbidly obese heterosexual couple kissing it up might make me want to hurl, and if I were forced to imagine them doing the nasty, I might need to hurl. But none of that has anything go do with bigotry. Bigotry is when a person is denied the same general treatment and common decency accorded to others based on your feelings about what you imagine them doing in private.
It's not surprising that gays are are becoming more accepted because it seems that even the most bigoted people learn compassion when they learn that a son or daughter or niece or nephew is gay, and as it becomes less socially crippling, more gay people are making their orientation known, so more people are learning this compassion.
It's just a shame that this is what is required for some people to understand that gay people are just people.
Why is it bigotry? What is it about finding two men engaged in a lip lock disgusting, is bigoted? The thought of two men having anal sex causing other men to wince at that thought is now bigoted? Really? I know the narrative is to paint everyone a bigot that doesn't openly show love for the queer men, but lets be honest here, even people who seem indifferent on the subject wince at that visual. I would think that those that do not, are the weird one's, not the reverse.
Tim-
Fascinating.
You don't even recognize your own bigotry.
I would find two men engaged in a liplock to be disgusting as well, but I would find two hot girls making out to be the opposite. And neither has anything to do with my acceptance of them as people. A morbidly obese heterosexual couple kissing it up might make me want to hurl, and if I were forced to imagine them doing the nasty, I might need to hurl. But none of that has anything go do with bigotry. Bigotry is when a person is denied the same general treatment and common decency accorded to others based on your feelings about what you imagine them doing in private.
It's not surprising that gays are are becoming more accepted because it seems that even the most bigoted people learn compassion when they learn that a son or daughter or niece or nephew is gay, and as it becomes less socially crippling, more gay people are making their orientation known, so more people are learning this compassion.
It's just a shame that this is what is required for some people to understand that gay people are just people.