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Originally Posted by m9lc  There wouldn't be so much discrimination against gays if there weren't so many gay people that acted totally ridiculous. That doesn't give people the right to make stereotypes about all gay people, but a lot of the stereotypes that fuel hatred against homosexuals would go away if so many of them didn't go out of their way to promote those stereotypes.
It's much the same with racism. Again, it's totally unjustified to discriminate against all black people just because some act obnoxious and violent, but it's also true that a large number of black people (moreso than white people in my experience) do act that way.
Stereotypes don't come from nowhere. People won't "find a reason to keep hating". When I was younger, I was a racist, not because of some intrinsic hatred, but because of the way a large number of black people acted, and the fact that I wasn't mature enough to keep myself from generalizing (my fundamentalist hillbilly upbringing didn't hurt either).
Now I'm more understanding and don't judge people based on their cultural peers, but nonetheless, I can't deny the facts that these stereotypes do have some truth to them. |
Stereotypes build from a lot of places - but that doesn't make them genuine examples of a greater community. See, I'd guess you were racist because you didn't have access to a large and varied population of Black people and generalized all must be one way, because the other representation were a minority of the whole.
But how does that translate to thinking if straight acting gays were the norm, which they probably already are and have been, discrimnation would end? I doubt that's true. Some people just cannot move past two people with penises in a love relationship, having sex, out in the community, raising kids, married, whatever, and having to witness it or explain that to their kids.
Why force people to become an example of the "good gay" in hopes of ending discrimination, when most are already in that role? Imo, variation is the very best part of humanity - queen, straight acting, gender queer, twink, bear, whatever, it is real for them so they should own it. Those who descriminate need to learn how to respect differences and take care of their own house.