Nah, then the words have power. ”Let me give you some advice, bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you." ~Tyrion Lannister I use the word faggot as a shield. People shouldn't use it as a sword.
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With all do respect... I don't care what you call yourself. You are giving people ammo, daring them not to use it. Being hetero, if I went around talking about my sexuality constantly, people would say the same to me. Nobody wants to hear it.
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Hetero's haven't been oppressed / given a widespread deragatory term through history, so they're not comparable. They also, in my experience from 25 years of thinking I was hetero, talk about their sexuality a lot. It just doesn't seem like it to them because it seems "normal"
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Let me clarify. People talk about sex no matter how they identify. That's not what I meant. It's not nessesary (in my opinion for anyone to put it on their profile or run around screaming it from the roof top. Nobody cares.
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If someone was screaming that they were gay from the top of a rooftop, the most likely reason would be that they're coming out and letting out years of repressed feelings. I think that would be pretty beautiful human moment.
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Replying to @Rys0nburger @APeridot56 and
I appreciate people putting that they're gay in their profile. As a queer person I've noticed that I can connect with other queer people better, on average, than most people. It's kind of like putting that you're Christian in your profile. It gives insight into the person.
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Replying to @Rys0nburger @APeridot56 and
I used to dislike it too. When I was in college all my friends used a rainbow filter on their profile pictures for Pride, and I wrote a post about how annoying it was. There was a lot going on with that. I was repressing a lot of stuff without knowing it, thinking I was straight
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Replying to @Rys0nburger @APeridot56 and
But most of all what it was was that I didn't understand. I had never had any gay people around growing up, so it was a foreign world. And what I saw was this group of people getting special treatment because they were gay. Where was hetero pride? Why is this such a big deal?
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Replying to @Rys0nburger @APeridot56 and
After introducing myself into the queer world, what I have seen is not people wanting special treatment, but equal. I never had a problem holding hands with girls in public, but my boyfriend and I are too shy to most of the time because it looks like a statement, not normal.
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Replying to @Rys0nburger @APeridot56 and
I've never experienced hate towards me for something that's out of my control until I was Queer. I've been insulted and told that God hates me while walking down the street. That never happened before.
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I thank the universe that I didn't have to go through what queer people have gone through to get to this point. Acceptance is really good in cities compared to what it used to be, and that's amazing. But hate is still around.
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