Browsing through my art community, I stumbled about a club promoting hetero orientation (aka being straight). Heigh-ho, I thought. About time we have one. That's the trouble with being part of a liberal arts community. Liberals tend to latch onto the name and take over. (Sorry, guys, liberal arts is something entirely different! Check out your nearby dictionary.)
The club promotes pride in being straight. And, yeah. They get massively flamed for it. The entire profile page is littered with profane comments accusing the administrators of bigotry and hatred. These flamers call the club "another homophobic group pretending that it is not."
But that wasn't the best comment of the lot. Try this on for size, quoted exactly as it's written:
"You don't understand the meaning of 'pride'. Just like saying 'white pride' is un-needed because it's the majority, theres no need to say straight pride- useless you're creating hate. As a black man i find this offensive, because the majority doesn't ever need to promote 'pride' since it's never subjected to hate, discrimination or bigotry."Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back up, people! I happen to find the above quote highly hateful, discriminatory and bigoted. As a white woman, I'm offended. But wait, as a Caucasian, does that count for anything? I am a woman, too, so maybe the feminists will back me up. Ha!
A second comment backs the first:
"Gays have gay groups because they are a minority. Groups help them find each other and allow them to socialize. You, on the other hand, have created a group which touts your pride in being 'normal'. Call yourselves what you want, say you aren't about hate or bigotry, but we all know who and what you really are."
Once again, how is this not hateful and bigoted? I fail to understand how they can assume themselves immune from the tirade, when they seek out and then flame a Straight Club. Now, to be fair, I've never visited a Gay Club so I don't know if we heterosexuals ever traverse their domain and leave idiotic flames. If anyone does, stop. It only stirs up trouble. Persecution can only breed resentment and open rebellion.
Let's remember the Golden Rule, okay?
In closing, both quotes dictate that we in majority groups can't separate ourselves like that, because it discriminates against them. Uh, NO. If you can hang with your buddies, separating yourselves from us, we can have our own little hang spot for holidays, weekends, and art communities. It's honestly no different from religion- and fan-groups.
Seriously, people.
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