Homosexuality

Some things blow my mind. Like Republicans, or the fact that I didn't think of this topic. Mad props to Halley for the idea.

Despite my generally assholish attitude, I care about people. Like gays. Especially gays. Racism ticks me off too, as any biggotry does, but when someone's a douche about gay people, it really pisses me off. Anyone who knows me has probably realized this by now.

I don't know how it happened, honestly. One of my [many] faults is a terrible memory, so maybe something /did/ happen that set me off on this path of righteousness, but I can't remember at all. To the best of my knowledge, it just sort of clicked one day. I didn't care for a long time, even making little jokes (still no slurs, don't worry) about gays. I view this as rather assholish behavior, but I can't change now what I did then.

According to Scott, he once used the word 'gay' as an insult (ie: that's so gay). This set me off, he says. From his tone, it must've been a commonplace thing and he remembers the event because that was the first time I'd objected to it. I still object to it (not that he says it anymore, but to people in general) because, as I (unfortunately) so often have to explain, I know gay people. There's nothing wrong with them.

Invariably, the next question is directed towards my own sexuality.

I'm straight. Chris and I may have our gay days, but in case you didn't pick up on that, that's a joke. Good times, a bit of variety, etc. I don't understand why people can't immediately comprehend that a straight person would stand up for gays. It alarms me with it's small mindedness [editors note: it's not that it isn't a valid question, it's just that it shouldn't make a difference, especially not as it pertains to the validity of my arguments].

Idiocy is fun to hear about. Unless you have two brain cells to rub together. Then it's f**king awful. Take, for example, don't ask don't tell. GOP forbid (haha, self-reference and irony in one statement. Beautiful.) that gays protect their country. May the long arm of small mindedness prevent those who are different from fighting on our behalf, risking their lives so we can live our own idiotic ones. Pathetically stupid, to the point I want to yell and scream and cry, all at once.

Or prop eight. Oh jesus, the gays want to be married. The buy-bull says they shouldn't be. In this nation of a separated church and state, will you bless our representatives as they prevent the heretics from living their own lives, and doing something that won't affect us at all, in any way?

I've thought about what the world would be like backwards. What if gays were the majority? What if straights were thought to be gross because they fucked the other gender, because the other gender had different parts, and that wasn't natural? What would straights say then? I'd love to see a few of the prop H8 supporters in that world. Love to see them survive for five fuckin' minutes before they had the shit beat out of them.

That says a lot, doesn't it? The minority gets oppressed. No matter what. Laws only matter if the majority follows them, for whatever reason, so they're out. And all we're left with is us. US, people. We forget, in the complexity of the world, that the human voice is remarkable. We can do many great things if we band together and fight back. You look at the great movers and shakers from years ago, and think, I could never do that. Remember, they were people just like you once. And they stood up and said enough. Say enough, people

I've said before the norm is the norm for a reason, and sadly, the new norm appears to be stupidity. The reason for this, quite clearly, is stupidity. Stupid begats stupid, which begats some more stupid until you have a whole 52% of the state as stupid, and enough stupids in charge to think the majority of stupids can take away the rights of anyone else, because there are more stupids.

Come on, people. Haven't we grown up since fifth grade? The biggest bully isn't in charge any more. We left that in elementary school. We're smarter now, and we have loud voices to rally the cause. We get a few more intelligent people together, we can change this. We can change the hate to love, the stupid to smart, the bigots to lovers, and eventually turn prop 8 into nothing more than a sad page in a history book.

It all starts with you. You don't have to rally, not yet. All you need to do is remember that gays aren't freaks. They're people like you or I, people with hopes and dreams and regrets and lives to live. Will stopping them from being happy really make your own life any better? No, it won't. So stop rambling about those flaming homosexuals and think for a second.

You think about what a fucking idiot you're being hating gays, internalize it, then take the first step towards redemption.

You stop.