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Originally Posted by miniwiz
Can't believe nobody asked yet: when did you first realized you like men? ;p
On a serious note,what do you think is your biggest strength/weakness when it comes to poker?
In all seriousness, I think I've explained this before, but the whole gay/not gay thing (I'm straight) came from me being EXTREMELY amused by the following situation:
Person 1: You're gay.
Person 2: No I'm not, don't be a moron.
Person 1: hahaha listen to the gaywad.
OR...
Person 1: You're gay.
Person 2: Yep. I prefer penis.
Person 1: (...not sure how the f to respond to that...)
I mean, it doesn't make sense. Come on, person 1!!! What are you doing homes??? If it's worth making fun of, how can you not continue to go after the person once they admit they are in fact what you're laughing at them for being? You called them gay, they proudly agreed...and suddenly you don't know what to do? Why not??? Go on!!! Keep making fun of them, they've confirmed what you're berating them for!!!
So to me it reveals that Person 1 is just using it as a generic insult because of this expectation that gay = bad, which is a cool point, it reinforces that who gives a **** if person 2 were gay (and person 2 shouldn't care about the insinuation), which is a cool point, and it makes person 1 think about what if they actually were talking to a gay person and how they probably wouldn't talk like that, which is yet another cool point, and makes person 1 stop using "you're gay" as a go to insult because it has no effect whatsoever. Awesome.
And this might be a little self-important, but I honestly feel like the number of anti-gay comments has gone down since I've been pulling this shtick in such a visible position. The whole joke about changing the minority sexual orientation we make fun of to "pansexual" (sorry to my pansexual friends, and yes, I have some) helped make that point too. But obviously mostly it was just funny because it makes people really awkward which is always a great result. I do have a few good friends of various minority orientations, and have felt a lot of pain from them being persecuted for who they are back in high school, so it's something I have a lot of passion about. But I try to keep it lighthearted and not annoyingly politically correct.