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[scrdest]

I can't do ANYTHING today, because I physically cannot extend either of my arms beyond the right angle. At least not without pain.

[Tiruin]

I always wonder why people get so mad about same sex relationships...
I mean, it's not like it matters to them if two other people decide they like each other. I don't actually understand humans that well, you are all so weird...

And if someone tells me same sex attraction is a choice, I ask them if liking chocolate is a choice. It's not like you wake up one day and go "I decide I like chocolate from now on!"

They never got over the 'eww' phase, and it just got worse.

Closed Mindedness, Kal :s
Or assumptions from extreme negative situation (which is very vulnerable for generalizing...) that it's a binary thing [This will ALWAYS happen//VERY GREAT POSSIBILITY if {x} is allowed to happen...which isn't holistic in understanding, at all :v] ie perceiving a wrong where there is none.
Or HOmophobia (which is illogical in its foundation; attaching something negative and attributing it as a future happening instead of a probable reality//looking at the reasons why)
I mean, I could say 'religion', but that's generalizing--its the interpretation of what's in the religion.
^{Proof here; we're a predominantly Catholic country and 'yet' (dunno why there's a yet but :v) are the most gay friendly place in Asia...it's ok here, though obviously there's respect to limits and all such.}

Basically, what greatorder said.

[hops]

Search any two-word term on DeviantART (barring peoples'/characters' names)
If you get less than 16 results, you lose
If you find any of the following within the first 2 pages of results, you lose:
-Anime/Manga style submissions of any kind
-Ponies
-Sonic
-Furries
-Sparkledogs
-Selfies with photoshop filters.

Why are sparkledogs even still a thing.

Also "intercontinental trebuchet" was an instant win. Hah!

Edit: so does most scientific terms

[Bauglir]

Maybe it has a label? "FYI: I AM NOT A PONY"?

Nah, that doesn't even work for pipes, much less mammals.

[mastahcheese]

I feel like I should contribute something to the homosexuality discussion (partly because I live in a very... Let's say "judgemental" area)
I have never understood the hatred towards that, despite being surrounded by said hatred. People around here will frequently threaten gay people openly, and never get punished for it, I've heard people compare homosexuality to beastialty (as if there is any comparisson to that whatsoever).

I still don't get why some people are so narrow-minded on the subject, but *shrugs*. I've seen the hate towards it.

[Tack]

... Homosexuality... Cool.

Spoiler: Warhammer. Not toohoo (click to show/hide)

So I'm doing an insanely difficult mod-job on a Bullgryn Bone-'ead.
It's not going amazingly. I bit off more than I could chew when I decided to graft the bottom of one head into the top of another. (More difficult than it sounds).

[TD1]

I always wonder why people get so mad about same sex relationships...
I mean, it's not like it matters to them if two other people decide they like each other. I don't actually understand humans that well, you are all so weird...

And if someone tells me same sex attraction is a choice, I ask them if liking chocolate is a choice. It's not like you wake up one day and go "I decide I like chocolate from now on!"

I don't care what people do privately, or even in public. (As long as it isn't dangerous, you understand.)

It's the blatant shouting out "I am gay! Look at me! Weehee!" that I don't understand. I mean, sure, if it were to tell all the "homophobes" that there are gay people, get used to it, that would be fine. Still irritating to anyone who already knows that, but fine. However, there are quite a few who don't do it for that...they just shout it out for the sake of it. I mean, I don't care if you're gay. I don't care if you like leeches. I don't care if you're straight.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

It's almost as if homophobes turn being gay explicitly into attention-seeking behavior [in their own mind] and then come up with half-reasoning to explain how they aren't homophobes, just against the 'ones who always shout it out'

[Arx]

I don't know about rationalising homophobes, but I really cannot fault anyone for getting annoyed when people decide that they are going to obnoxiously rub one of their characteristics in everyone else's faces. I'd get just as angry at a guy alternately loudly making out with his girlfriend and screaming "Look how straight I am!" as at a guy doing the same but with his boyfriend and how gay he is.

[Tack]

It's almost as if homophobes turn being gay explicitly into attention-seeking behavior [in their own mind] and then come up with half-reasoning to explain how they aren't homophobes, just against the 'ones who always shout it out'

That's wrong. You can't use homophobia- a crime- as a stamp to put on someone who has a problem with a certain guy's attitude.

I have sat and spent 45 mins bitching about the outrageous flamboyance of a gay guy at a friend's party. Am I a homophobe?
Probably, unless you consider that I was sitting with my gay friend and his boyfriend, whilst the three of us were being snarky and annoyed together. The fact I even have to Stoop to the "I have gay friends so I'm not a homophobe" cliche makes me mad.
So maybe, possibly- I'm not a homophobe, and that guy actually was an attention whore.

There's a problem- flamboyance is now synonymous with gayness because of the stereotypes circulating; they are circulating because the archetype of the flamboyant, attention seeking gay man is common. "Manly men" are an archetype who are usually reserved and dislike large displays. So therefore because one Archetype dislikes another, they're homophobes- regardless of the fact that they're perfectly allowed to dislike "omggirls", etc.
Discrimination can go two ways, and closed-mindedness certainly can. Someone is perfectly able to have a problem with your attitude without having a problem with your sexuality, even though saying they're a gay-basher is so much easier than coming to the difficult conclusion that you may have a personality clash.

This being said- some homophobes Do, and some say things like "I don't mind gays as long as they stay quiet about it"- that's wrong.
But Mictlantecuhtli, your post sounded incredibly accusatory, and if there's One group of people that I'll feel suitably meta in white-knighting, it's mis-labelled WASPs.

[DJ]

You have to draw a line on tolerance at some point, and for me it's feather boas. Though TBH that's more of a fashion thing as I think women too should be banned from wearing feather boas in public.

[RedKing]

Not to mention all those thousands of poor quetzalcoatls that get slaughtered...

[Glowcat]

I have sat and spent 45 mins bitching about the outrageous flamboyance of a gay guy at a friend's party. Am I a homophobe?

If your complaints centered around his "unmanliness" and felt that he was the "wrong kind of gay" then yes. Most homophobia tends to target the femme aspects in gay men. If you just find his behavior grating rather than attempting to label his differences as a grab for attention or otherwise insincere, and not related to him being gay, then no. Or maybe to clarify that last bit: You can find flamboyant personalities annoying without being a homophobe, but when you consider it a problem with (some) gay people you've crossed a line.

And homophobia isn't a crime in itself. Even in Hate Crimes the additional punishment is because it aggravates an act to have wider social consequences rather than being homophobic itself.

[Tack]

Discrimination is a Crime- at least in Australia.

In other news- we actually did just pick out the annoying aspects of his personality. I guess all three of us are homophobes. If him calling every woman "honey", aggressively hitting on vaguely uncomfortable straight men simply in order to get a reaction, and constantly praising his own looks are things that are inextricably linked to his sexuality, then I apologize.

Facetiousness aside, after a big rant on open-mindedness I'd be hypocritical not to think on what you're saying.

[TamerVirus]

There are people that are simply annoying

It doesn't matter if they harbor sexual attraction to man, woman, or mayonnaise