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Why does anyone get upset by the sexuality or gender identity of others?

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  • #102
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    wexie wrote: »
    Google it :D

    ;)
    Just did, it was the abbreviation that confused me!

    And again, sounds delightful. :P


  • #103
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    timthumbni wrote: »
    I will be honest and say I was homophobic when younger simply because of ignorance. Not anything major as to be honest i didnt know anyone gay but just the normal rubbish talking bs with mates etc.

    When i started work One of my bosses was gay and we got on like a house on fire. I left my girlfriend and am now happily with reinaldo for 4 years.

    The last sentence was in jest but the gay fella is now one of my closest friends and I don't really give a monkeys anymor about this issue. I still wind up my gay friend about his lifestyle but not in a mocking way rather the same way I would take the piss out of my mates.

    I think it comes down to the fact that basically humans are just &ricks.

    I was much the same. I mean, massively homophobic when I was younger. Just terrible, and nobody could convince me I was wrong. Nobody.

    Then one day, I was looking on the web at a series of newspaper cartoons, all based around the topic of Gay marriage. (Dunno why, maybe the universe/ a deity/ my fairy Godmother or Godfather was guiding me.) I stumbled across a cartoon which had the typical Fred Phelps-like caricature of a Bible-Basher saying 'We cannot allow our children to see this!!!' while holding a newspaper with numerous headlines such as 'Tornado kills 100', 'Suicide-bomber kills 20 people, and numerous other depressing and disturbing headlines, and then one, small little headline saying 'Romantic vows of love, honour and respect exchanged in California between loving couple'. Like a thunderbolt, my mind was changed, and I still cannot explain why that editorial cartoon completely changed my mind, but I am eternally grateful that it did.


  • #104
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    wexie wrote: »
    Google it :D

    ;)
    And there's a few youtube clips from Clerks 2 about it too, hehe.


    As for the original question: fear of the unknown (to them) and ignorance would be the main two issues I reckon, possibly coupled with knackerism and being a degenerate who loves causing a bit of bother.


  • #105
    Sierra 117
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Sierra 117


    entropi wrote: »
    And there's a few youtube clips from Clerks 2 about it too, hehe.

    You never go a2m!


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