Stereotypes

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[yetzer19]

What's the mental illness called when you call something a mental illness even though that's been refuted by the American Psychiatric Association? Delusional?

[krakenbwool04]

@SanguineBullet667 Actually most gay people don't make a big deal about their sexuality. The thing is, if a guy doesn't mention that he's gay, you ASSUME he's straight. You mentioned that you're an XBox fanatic--when you go online, you assume every guy you play with on XBox Live is straight, right? The thing is that people assume that gamer = straight; sportsman = straight; etc. The only way people can combat stereotypes is by asserting themselves.

[kinderfeld27]

@HateCrimesDivision. That is my point. They are normal. I don't think I showed any type of homophobia in what i said. I am gay and proud of it. But I don't like self loathing gays who are ashamed by those of us who have no problem owning that they are a part of our culture. I find it silly when someone can think its some attack of character just because a boy wants to wear a dress or listen to Cher. One mustn't take themselves too seriously.

[HateCrimesDivision]

@kinderfeld27 said: "Let's not mistake stereotypes for culture. They are different."

No, "They" are not different, "They" are perfectly normal.

Why do you choose to be "apart" from them, is it because you are homophobic?

What is it about gays that you hate so much about what you see in yourself?

[HateCrimesDivision]

@CraigHic

I'd be careful with that.

What you say can and will be construed as borderline anti-gay Hate-Speech. Homophobia is widely considered "criminal activity" and punishable as a felony with fines and/or imprisonment in the US.

Engaging in topics that use "gay" as a derogatory term or put in a negative-light, may lead to civil litigation against you for slander.

Please be considerate of gay people when sharing your opinion about those whose sexual orientation differs from your own.

[Lushuslipsarentyours]

@tapkey78 Yes normal

[kinderfeld27]

I understand that one must never use stereotypes to hurt or judge a person but one also must not punish those who can't help but be apart of them.

Some of us like musicals. Some of us are sluts. Some of us are fem. Some of us are butch.

Let's not mistake stereotypes for culture. They are different.

[RudiL94]

Fags

[Optimus273]

@DireDowns yeh its just that there are so many who are bias when it comes to what they think, and they dont even have valid evidence not to prove facts but their opinions...shouldnt b that hard

[DireDowns]

"The term perverted is not really a term I would use to describe practices that are contrary to God's laws. Those that practice it distort the truth of what a real family on earth is."

100% of humans of humans on earth being heterosexual, having children and living behind a white picket in a middle upperclass neighbourhood is and ideal that if derived from simplistic people who only see a black and white world. Ideals are different from truth. Truth is reality.

[DireDowns]

@Optimus273

God creating people and animals and putting them fully formed into a magical garden in the manner of a child playing with his plastacine barn animals is a religious opinion which exists on par with any other creation myth that has or ever will exist. Humans like to catagorise things and separate them into black and white while calling it natural or god's law. Things which happen less often are said to be outside of nature. Nature incorperates everything.

[DireDowns]

@darthspeaks

Are you joking? You must be joking? Denying spirits in heaven an earthy existance? hahaha. Trust me, if that were true those 'spirits' would be much better off were they are. If I saw a whore passed out in an alleyway with were knickers around her ankles and I didn't root her, would I be guilty of selfishness? Gods don't make laws, people make laws. Just because something is rare or less frequent in nature it does not mean a law has been broken. Petrification is not unatural.