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Off Topic / Re: Sochi Mayor Says: "There are no gay people in the city"
« on: January 28, 2014, 08:46:43 PM »
It's like a giant brawl on this thread and I am about to belly flop right in, so here are my thoughts for the heck of it because the conversation is relevant and I've been wanting to talk about it. And what better community to submit this to than the Blockland community?:
I find it really hard to truly hate people. However, I have a few problems with the "LGBT" community.
Their ribbon color:
I did a research project for school one time on colorectal cancer. We were to make a poster, and I decided to include a picture of the ribbon for it (blue star-shaped ribbon, by the way). I found a neat website that listed all the diseases that each ribbon represents, and it was interesting to read through all of them. However, I came across the rainbow ribbon, which exclusively represented gay rights. This irked me quite a bit, because who gave them the right to claim a pretty special ribbon color just for themselves? Now we can't see the phenomenon of a rainbow or even the color scheme without being reminded of something we don't support. And by using a symbol usually reserved for diseases or societal problems, are they actually calling themselves a problem or, dare I say, disease?
The propaganda:
People accuse the churches and other groups of preaching to hate gays (my church doesn't teach this. In short, we are told to ignore them) but I have seen so much preaching of a different sort from the gays. It is everywhere, have you even seen those "when you say gay, do you realize what you say?" commercials? They play on Nickelodeon two at a time, back-to-back for some reason. My school has a Gay-Straight Alliance, and every year they host a "day of silence" where if you are LGBT or a supporter, you wear a little rainbow ribbon and remain silent for the entire designated day. "Fine," I think, "let them have their day of silence," because most of the time you can't get them to shut up.
The transparency:
Probably my biggest reason why I find no reason to support them.
It's all so fake, this movement. You look at all the advertisements, the protests, and it seems so forced and dysfunctional. The gays themselves, they way they talk, the way they carry themselves about and get some strange euphoria from their "pride". Has anyone noticed that all LGBT of the same type talk almost the same way? It just sounds so fake because I, being straight as an iron rod, could easily and quite suddenly make everyone think I was gay simply by talking and acting a different way without saying I was gay or acting attracted to any other guys. Some weeks ago, I encountered what I thought was an unsightly girl working at the Gamestop at the Columbia Mall (yes, the one with the recent shooting). I proceeded to browse through the games like any teenager without any money. "Can I help you?" said a male voice behind me . I turned around and found myself facing what turned out to actually be a guy who had had work done on certain parts of his body. "No thanks" I said, not quite stopping the motion of turning around. First, it was disturbing. Second, as soon as I realized who it was, the female identification left my mind immediately. No longer was it or ever had been a guy-legally-turned-girl, he was now just a guy who had done something frankly horrible to himself. It was sad, really. The facade is made of paper.
I wish not to have this sound like a rant, and I believe that I managed to meet that goal. So if you have managed to read this, thanks for taking the time, I really needed to get that out of my system. Again, I don't hate the gays, only what they do.
I find it really hard to truly hate people. However, I have a few problems with the "LGBT" community.
Their ribbon color:
I did a research project for school one time on colorectal cancer. We were to make a poster, and I decided to include a picture of the ribbon for it (blue star-shaped ribbon, by the way). I found a neat website that listed all the diseases that each ribbon represents, and it was interesting to read through all of them. However, I came across the rainbow ribbon, which exclusively represented gay rights. This irked me quite a bit, because who gave them the right to claim a pretty special ribbon color just for themselves? Now we can't see the phenomenon of a rainbow or even the color scheme without being reminded of something we don't support. And by using a symbol usually reserved for diseases or societal problems, are they actually calling themselves a problem or, dare I say, disease?
The propaganda:
People accuse the churches and other groups of preaching to hate gays (my church doesn't teach this. In short, we are told to ignore them) but I have seen so much preaching of a different sort from the gays. It is everywhere, have you even seen those "when you say gay, do you realize what you say?" commercials? They play on Nickelodeon two at a time, back-to-back for some reason. My school has a Gay-Straight Alliance, and every year they host a "day of silence" where if you are LGBT or a supporter, you wear a little rainbow ribbon and remain silent for the entire designated day. "Fine," I think, "let them have their day of silence," because most of the time you can't get them to shut up.
The transparency:
Probably my biggest reason why I find no reason to support them.
It's all so fake, this movement. You look at all the advertisements, the protests, and it seems so forced and dysfunctional. The gays themselves, they way they talk, the way they carry themselves about and get some strange euphoria from their "pride". Has anyone noticed that all LGBT of the same type talk almost the same way? It just sounds so fake because I, being straight as an iron rod, could easily and quite suddenly make everyone think I was gay simply by talking and acting a different way without saying I was gay or acting attracted to any other guys. Some weeks ago, I encountered what I thought was an unsightly girl working at the Gamestop at the Columbia Mall (yes, the one with the recent shooting). I proceeded to browse through the games like any teenager without any money. "Can I help you?" said a male voice behind me . I turned around and found myself facing what turned out to actually be a guy who had had work done on certain parts of his body. "No thanks" I said, not quite stopping the motion of turning around. First, it was disturbing. Second, as soon as I realized who it was, the female identification left my mind immediately. No longer was it or ever had been a guy-legally-turned-girl, he was now just a guy who had done something frankly horrible to himself. It was sad, really. The facade is made of paper.
I wish not to have this sound like a rant, and I believe that I managed to meet that goal. So if you have managed to read this, thanks for taking the time, I really needed to get that out of my system. Again, I don't hate the gays, only what they do.
