Shocked by some homophobic outings in my clan in the game Clash of Clans. People throwing 'filthy gay' and 'junkie' about as swearing words to each other. When I try to bring some sense in the discussion, saying the link between gay and filth shows a preoccupation with sex, saying that when I think of gays I think of love, bonding, finding someone cute, it gets immediately seen as a coming out as if I'm gay. Okay, with my voicing I took that risk, but I the way they reacted, lots of 'hahahaha', 'wow', 'heavy' I get the feeling my message that using the word gay in that way is insulting to people who happen to love the same sex and who are as ordinary as everyone else who has the strange habit of falling for the other sex, is completely lost.
My mother said it's neigh impossible to change other people's minds, but I hope I can get done that my fellow clan-members stop using 'gay', 'junkie' etc. as swearing words, for it's deteriorating my enjoyment of that small 15-member community. My brother and cousin are members at well, I hope they can add some more reason to the whole lot once they get online and read the messages.
*edit: it almost makes you want to become gay so as not to be part of such a homophobic part of the population, but of course not all straight people are like that, just like not every muslim support terrorism and sharia law nor does every catholic oppose free thinking.
And why the hell is online marked as wrong word by the dictionary, that says it should be on-line and muslim is a wrong word, it says it should be Muslim, yet catholic is right without the CAPS. Time for medication? I'm surely feeling over-sensitive now, my head is spinning too much today (see my previous post this morning about re-examinations).
Post edited September 12, 2014 by DubConqueror