honestly.
when the women fought for their rights, did they bring mops, brooms, dustpans, kitchen sinks, sud buckets, wachine machines, wash boards, ironing boards, and sewing machines with them?
when the blacks fought for their rights, did they bring a cotton gin, straw hat, overalls, berry picking bucket, their master’s children with them?
NO. they came as normal, everyday people, fighting to have the same rights as normal, everyday people.
so if the gay community wants those same rights, stop acting like the stereotype. put on some cloths, leave the angel wings at home, don’t bedazzle your face, stop the dancing and grinding, and then maybe, just maybe someone might actually take you seriously.
this isn’t the thanksgiving day parade, it’s a march. if you want the same rights as everybody else, prove that you can be just as in control and respectful as others have been. i’m not saying change who you are, but just shut up and march. stop making it a big flaming production and take it seriously.
have a little self-respect.
acutally, i am going to have to disagree with you here a little bit. i am a little offended.
first off. what makes you so self righteous? the march has not even happened yet, and you are already assuming too much.
also, have you seen the gay community? we are who we fucking are. like it or leave it. i fucking love that kind of attitude about us. see, one of the great things about being gay, and coming out, is that you gain this sense of being, self-worth and confidence which is something that the hetero world does not experience.
and honestly, you need to get over yourself. face the facts people, gays will have their “stereotypes” the same way hetero white people have stereotypes, the way black people have stereotypes, the way asians and mexicans and even fucking zombies have stereotypes…they are, and will forever be there. accept it and stop trying to think that you are this crusader to annihilate stereotypes dammit!
so andreasp, maybe instead of shunning those who have finally found themselves you should try looking at homo-stereotypes as liberation. yes. some gay people come out and their personalities turn into this over-the-top, super exaggerated “character” that makes many in the hetero and homo community uncomfortable, but i have to give it to those “embarrassing” people, they are living their life without any concern as to what others think which is something that i cant even do sometimes. i mean, in this day in age dont we at least owe that to ourselves? the ability to live and be who we want to be and not have to worry about what other people think?
i could easily get into how a huge part of homo-opression is the fact that we have all accepted and given into a hetero-normal lifestyle. a life-style that is a huge set up for failure. there are those of us who challenge it. and because there are those of us who are different and not the standard “ideal gay” we have to endure people from our own community shunning and judging and being just as critical and harsh as the un-accepting heteros.
in other words. let people be who they are. i ENCOURAGE people to go to the marches as who they are. show the world that we are everywhere. we have many different looks, and types, and personalities. and all of those things are so colorful compared to the gray world we live in.
maybe, andreasp, the key to gaining respect by our country isnt through trying to look and act as straight as we can, but showing the country that we are a united people, people who are different, people who will always be different, but just because we are different doesnt mean that we are incapable of loving. love is the message here. not how well you can come across as a heterosexual in order to blind the world from the fact that we are who we are no matter what.
end rant.
i was going to reply to this, but omar and warwar pretty much summed up exactly what i was thinking…
