People's thoughts about Gays

[atlf2856]

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[NeverTooLate]

Yes i had a teacher who was talking shit about gays and i requested to leave that class, but yea lot of my friends make fun of it..i wish people would be more open minded :P

[Scooby Dooby Drew]

Oh wow, a teacher? Really?

:p
I really hate it when people use the term 'gay' just as a generic insult (ex: Teacher: "you have a 1000 word report due next week" student: "Oh, that's so gay!")

[[[chickaroo92]]]

Oh wow, a teacher? Really?

:p
I really hate it when people use the term 'gay' just as a generic insult (ex: Teacher: "you have a 1000 word report due next week" student: "Oh, that's so gay!")
I've actually been careful not to do that.
I don't see why people can't be accepting. It's not like Gay people would make fun of Straights.

[TheFame]

Because people are evil and attack anything that doesnt act like them.

It makes me so angry

[atlf2856]

AGREED 150% - TheFame

[Delusion15]

Because people are evil and attack anything that doesnt act like them.

It makes me so angry
A little harsh don't you think friend. In reality most people who say slurs like that as in (thats so gay) do because they don't understand what they are saying.
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In there minds i really doubt they are saying it as a conscious slur against gays. I doubt people that say things like that are Evil more they are just uninformed.

don't be angry because other people are stupid :D

[Captor K]

I'm gay and say the words " that's gay" and "faggot" all the time (usually calling straight guys this, though I'm out). As far as I am concerned, the words lose their power if you bludger them to death. I understand why some gays get mad at said phrases/words, but there are some of us who don't think anything of it. I have bigger issues with people who say "exact same." So annoying. >.>

But yeah, generally try not to get angry with people, unless they're intentionally trying to hurt your feelings. Then you can like, punch them in their faces or something. If they're ignorant, educate them. If they still want to act an ass, then keep away from them. Ya don't need to be around toxic people.

[CaliKid24]

im bi. i wish people were more accepting and open minded. i also had a teacher who was talking about how prop 8 should not have been overturned and he said gay people were really not equals. and i do say "thats gay" a lot. but not meaning it in an offensive way. i dont really notice when i say it.

[Andrzej]

I dunno, maybe it's just my school, but I've never seen or heard anyone throwing the word 'gay' around as an insult, not even "that's gay". I've never heard anyone even say anything bad about homosexuality either.

[Jess]

I hate people that hate gays (>_>). myself, I have nothing against them

Some people need to realize that gays are humans just like them and what their sexuality or whatever is none of their business!

[Dorsum Oppel]

Because they're ridiculous and idiotic sheep.

[Billy15]

I've said this a gazillion times lol, we live in the most homophobic area in the world, so yea I hear negative stuff about gays all the time and to be honest, it hurts because I'm not out (just can't be around here) and I take things to heart. People are cruel (especially rednecks, jocks) guys who feel they have to be cool, play follow the leader, to lame to think for themselves and like someone else here said, if someone is different then they are, well they feel they are better, superior, more manly then them and somehow it threatens their pea brains and egos.

[DarkHorses]

I'm accepting of gays. I used to be accepting of them but had a hard time seeing it as normal, but now I see it as more normal than I used to. For instance, awhile ago if I would have seen two gay guys together I probably would have felt a bit strange and awkward about it, but now I'd probably think "aww."

Funny thing is that the people who make fun of gays and are homophobic are the ones who are out of place. The world is slowly becoming more accepting of people who are 'different.' Some areas aren't moving forward as much as others are, but I think that eventually a lot more people will be open to the idea of homosexuality. Just a matter of time, really. Of course there will always be the religious people who think that they can hand you a bible and change your sexuality, but they are the ones who need to change from their ignorant beliefs.

[ktmay96]

I'm straight, but I'm totally ok with people who are gay. Now my friends and I joke around about it, but we're not rude, or we don't try to be. We don't make fun of being gay, and we don't say bad things about it. Actually, people are pretty accepting where I am. Actually at my school, its cool to have a gay friend haha. I think its totally ridiculous when people think its a choice and that people can just change their sexuality whenever it pleases them. You love who you love right? Whether it be man, woman, or both. My moms friend's husband was gay, and tried to change himself by marrying my mom's friend, and it just made him unhappy. Even after years of marriage and fighting it, he eventually had to just accept himself. And I used to be Catholic, because that's how I was raised, but I've chosen to be just general Christian because I thought it was ridiculous that the Catholic religion didn't accept gays. Its obviously not a choice, and God wouldn't create you gay just so that it would send you to hell. And hey, Adam and Eve may have been man and woman, but Adam didn't exactly have another guy around so he really couldn't have been gay. And that wouldn't have worked out so well in the whole populating the world thing. I just hope some day, everyone can be accepting, and people won't be afraid to open about their sexuality because they will be accepted. Hopefully one day...

[Wonder.]

Around here people are accepting except the annoying, ignorant people. I say that because they really are annoying and ignorant, not because they are unaccepting. You just get used to it.

[lightkun]

];995363']I've actually been careful not to do that.
I don't see why people can't be accepting. It's not like Gay people would make fun of Straights.

Unless you live in Hollywood or some densely gay populated area.

[Atonement]

Unless you live in Hollywood or some densely gay populated area.

No, quite really, gays rarely ever make fun of straight people since homosexuals go against the social "norm".

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Now, I live in a rural area. Its pretty conservative and there is a lot of joking about gays, using fag as a insult, stuff like that. But what's funny, is most the people that insult homosexuals either. A: don't have a problem with it, B: are covering up the fact that they themselves are gay, or C: Legitimately despise homosexuals (which usually stems out of a negative experience in their childhood).

A, I see that a lot of people I talk to don't really care, but rather use "that's gay" or, "hey, fag" just because multiple other people do, not really because they are homophobic.

B, I saw a study on this. It measure people's arousal to homosexual imagery. The tested people were homophobic and nonhomophobic heterosexual people. Basically, the results were that homophobic "straight" men were more aroused, by a considerable margin, than the straight guys who didn't care who was gay. I think this come with people simply being comfortable with who they are. (If this is true, the Westboro Baptist Church is secretly like living in the Castro)

C, I've seen a great deal of this. My friend was molested by his older brother when he was young. (Both grew up and identified as straight). My friend is strongly against homosexuals pureply because he was hurt by a homosexual experience. Though this may sound far-fetched. I see this happen a lot more than I would like to imagine.

I hope this cleared some stuff up for people.

Click here for that study I mentioned. (http://www.philosophy-religion.org/handouts/homophobia.htm)

[The Harlequin]

You know, I'm bi and I say stuff like 'that's gay' all the time ~ I think people are far more willing to accept you if they know you can have a bit of a laugh and they can relax around you ~ if people feel as though they have to watch what they say all the time they aren't going to be as easily persuaded that really you aren't that different from them,

Yes some people are just anuses because they are ignorant, but most people really aren't as vindictive as to marginalise people because of their orientation ~ most people just want an easy life (:^,

[Dunce]

I dont mind when people say 'Thats gay', it's kind of programmed in their minds and they dont really think about what they're really saying...
But yeah I dont know what my sexuality is.. but if I am gay I will have a terrible time trying to tell people. Even if they're accepting they'll never see you the same way. The other day my friend said 'I have loads of gay friends so I'm used to it'. Used to what? Gayness? They havent changed, they shouldnt go from your 'friend' to your 'gay friend'. And people usually think lesbians are basically guys in girls bodies and gays are girls in guys bodies... sometimes they are transgender but not necessarily.
I was visiting my friends who live a few hours away and they were talking about their friend and one of them said 'Does Joe have a girlfriend?' and the other said 'No, he's gay' and she just nodded, said 'Oh right' and carried on with what she was doing. I loved the way they didnt make a big deal of it, they understood that its his business, and that he's still the same guy.

[atlf2856]

I've said this a gazillion times lol, we live in the most homophobic area in the world, so yea I hear negative stuff about gays all the time and to be honest, it hurts because I'm not out (just can't be around here) and I take things to heart. People are cruel (especially rednecks, jocks) guys who feel they have to be cool, play follow the leader, to lame to think for themselves and like someone else here said, if someone is different then they are, well they feel they are better, superior, more manly then them and somehow it threatens their pea brains and egos.


same problem in my skool the rednecks r such idiots cuz theey think ppl who r like that r such idiots. the rednecks in my skool r dummer than a fence post anyways

[atlf2856]

i sometimes slip and say oh thatss gay or someting like that but then i feel bad about it so i try to stop and get others to stop thats all, unless some1 is using it as a hate term i get mad. I think saying it as a insult has been normal to our society not to be mean but then there are always those who r rude and ignorant

[thepieman]

"Gay" has become so commonly misused it just doesn't bother me anymore. It's the vicious homophobic comments that do, or when people think that gay guys fancy all men, or worse, when people have said, sometimes to me, that bis fancy everyone and are greedy.

People saying "it's gay" really have a slim vocabulary, and are too stupid to think of a word that makes sense in the sentence. People have said to me in the past something like "That jumper's gay" etc. I usually ask them "So, does it mate with other jumpers of the same kind then?" It usually shuts them up as they're small minds try to compute what's just been said.

No, you can pity people who say this, as they have nothing worthwhile to really say.

[Icarus7]

I've said this a gazillion times lol, we live in the most homophobic area in the world, so yea I hear negative stuff about gays all the time and to be honest, it hurts because I'm not out (just can't be around here) and I take things to heart. People are cruel (especially rednecks, jocks) guys who feel they have to be cool, play follow the leader, to lame to think for themselves and like someone else here said, if someone is different then they are, well they feel they are better, superior, more manly then them and somehow it threatens their pea brains and egos.

Totally True. 10 / 10 Watson :yes:

[Fall3nNotForg0tt3n]

Most people arn't against gay people these days they just find it awkward to talk about. At my school we did a whole assesment on homosexuality and what people think about it, most straight guys just dont want gay guys to start flirting with them Some people still insult gay but who cares about them.
Those who matter dont mind, Those who mind dont matter

[bringmethehorizon314]

PEOPLE CAN JUST SHOVE IT!!!

it gets on my nerves too, my skool is FEELED with rednecks u constantly say "thts queer" or something stupid like tht. not to mention y dad:S yea its unco fortable but eh i gay nd not about to let some closed minded hick make me wanna be different:D

[JimSauce]

Yeah, but I ignore the haters. If they only have hatred to spread then I don't need to concern myself with them.

[1_21Guns]

the whole school near enough is homophobic, drives me insane, i'm straight, but i've never seen the big deal, people are what they are, and i'm damn sure someones sexuality doesnt mean they're gonna turn round and attack you because they like you, where people get that from idk. but yeah...

[Billy15]

What kills me is when I hear a redneck say something like "well no fagot better ever touch me" and the reality is, not even an ugly straight girl would ever touch him, so why does he flatter himself and think that someone who is gay would even look in his nasty dirrection?

Yes I am gay (and I've never touched anyone) but even if I was madly in love with a boy, I would never touch him or approach him unless I had reason to believe that he also liked me. I don't think many gay guys are going to come on to some straight dude
let alone some redneck, I sure wouldn't, I think I have more class then that lol.