Ignorance
Have you every wondered what makes people say the things they do? Today in my English Composition class I was telling a fellow student about a children's book I want to write. I mentioned how it would be titled "The Unicorn Nanny, Also Called Danny." Instead of making fun of it for being stupid or being like, "A unicorn? Who the hell would want to read about a unicorn being a nanny," she decides to say something more upsetting. Her first response was basically "Wait, Danny? So it's a faggot?" Why do people in today's culture automatically assume if a man does something that is typically defined as a woman's job or acts in anyway effeminate he is homosexual. Some of them are gay, yes, but that gives you no right to just assume any male nurse or dancer is gay. What's with all this typecasting? And we certainly have no right to call someone a faggot no matter the case. The ignorance of some people is astounding. This is twice now that I've heard this person call someone a derogatory name just for being gay. They were both fictional characters but that doesn't make it any better. People need to think before they speak. I'm a lesbian. You can't tell just by looking at me though, unless you have some kind of giant gay-dar. So she's saying these things and she doesn't think anyone is going to object. Or maybe she does and she just doesn't care, I don't know. I didn't let the comment pass the first time, I told her I didn't appreciate the word. She seems like a reasonable person. I wasn't going to start a huge fight with her, I was just going to get my opinion in there so she'll maybe realize that what she says impacts people more that she thought.