The need to call out homophobia

[sparkindarkness]

One of the many many things about homophobia that make me rage is how readily tolerated it is - and how ready people are to excuse it, defend it and deny it.

It saddens me that I need to repeat this  - but, if you think gay people are worth less than straight people, if you think we deserve less than straight people, if you think we don’t have the

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[sparkindarkness]

Well with friends I'm hoping poeople would have a sufficient relationshiop not to need to jump all over them with hoibnailed boots. I have quasi friends who occasionally need a good jumping, but most friends respond to some gentle prodding - nor would I feel the need to leap on friends.

I think it is importsant to call friends out though - because all too often people give friends a pass on problematic behaviour. But even then exhcnages wiuth friends are very different because of past relationship

Every straight person is privileged, and they are likely to be ignorant simply because that is what privilege means. And while we don't have a right to abuse, I think we do have a right to react angrily when they throw that privilege at us. I don't think a duty to be calm and educational all the time is possible - or even desireable both in terms of mental stress and in terms of necessary passion

People make their own paths and set their own way for their own reasons and by their own methods - we have 101 pathways and hopefully all add something. No-one has the need, or even right to be embarrased by someone else methinks.

[beauty_forashes]

No-one has the need, or even right to be embarrased by someone else methinks.

If it has to do with something affecting me personally, it's an instinctive response, even if I try to have sufficient self-control not to act on it, and it's something that also makes me angry because while passion is good, fanaticism never is. How and why is that different than having an instinctive response to something subjectively hurtful someone else has said, and why do I have the right and reason for one and not the other?