A story on pinknews.co.uk has attracted my attention. In my last post about how amazing Aberdeen Pride was I briefly mentioned the reasons why there is no such thing as Heterosexual Pride and now I have come across this:
“Sao Paulo city council backs ‘heterosexual pride’” and I can’t help but think to myself, you had better be fucking kidding me with this shit!!!!!
Someone please explain to me what gives people the right to believe that privileged people who are not discriminated against on a daily basis for part of their identity deserve a parade?
Wait, this guy is telling me: “those who claim to defend gay rights, privileges actually argue as if the gay was a special category of people who are above the law.”
Oh! Why didn’t you say so in the first place? I totally see your point of how gays wanting: protection from people who are attacking them or wish to attack them; to have their relationships legally recognised; to be allowed to get married and basically wanting to be treated the same as straight people means that we want a special category and believe we’re above the law. I totally get where you’re coming from, you complete and total dick!
Gays don’t want special treatment. We want equality. Sure not all of us care about “marriage” and are quite happy with Civil Partnerships but the whole reason we are fighting is so that we can be recognised as people not as the perverted scum of the earth that some people think we are.
“The law should be equal for everyone” okay, I like where this is going, continue; “but we have seen for a while now is a deification of the gays, because the newspapers almost every day brings some matter on them, the government is concerned to discuss the matter up in schools, with children and adolescents, distributing booklets and videos.”
Hold on a second! So you want things to be equal and not have people being better than other people. Good, I like that. What’s this you say, the newspapers are reporting on gay issues and kids and teenagers are being informed of the existence of gay people? *Gasp* How dare they! The rotten bastards! I mean as you say it’s not like gays are like “blacks, who are part of our history”.
You like Shakespeare? GAY!
What about Virginia Woolf? GAY!
Or Mário de Andrade? GAY!
Oscar Wilde? GAY!
Aristotle? Socrates? Liberace? GAY! GAY! GAY!
But no, we aren’t part of any history. Oh wait, my mistake, YES WE FUCKING ARE! And believe it or not we’re part of your present too. And those names up there, only a few examples.
One of many excuses made for the poor treatment of gays is that “the government also does not show any concern to combat racism in schools telling the story of blacks and their importance to our country”. So, you’re saying gays can’t have equal rights and homophobia can’t be tackled because racism isn’t being dealt with? Um...the two can be dealt with at the same time you know! They aren’t mutually exclusive and there are people who are attacked for both reasons. Fuck sake! Any idiot can see that you people need to sort out discrimination laws that protect people, not waste your time saying “we can’t help these people, because we haven’t helped these people”. Fucking dipshits!
The icing on the cake. The pivotal moment of this article. The fundamental statement made by this man. He says that straight pride is “not anti-gay but a protest against the privileges the gay community enjoys”. Privileges? You don’t allow children to be told that gay people exist; you deny gays the right to marry; you do not protect them against discrimination and you don’t treat them with respect as you do with straight people and you have the audacity to claim that gays in your country and privileged? Really?! You’re actually going to say that?
Well, that just shows me that not only do your laws need improving but your education system needs to be improved also. Because, if you think that people: having fewer rights than others; being treated like shit because of who they love and having their lives threatened and ended, by and because of other people, means that they are privileged then your teachers have obviously failed you!
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again.
When straight people are disowned by their families for being straight, then there will be straight pride.
When straight kids are bullied in school for being straight, then there will be a straight pride.
When straight people are beaten up and killed for being straight, then there will be a straight pride.
When straight people are discriminated against by their Governments and denied equal rights, then there will be a straight pride.
When straight people are so scared of how they will be treated that they hide their relationships in public THEN there will be a straight pride.
When straight people are pushed to suicide because they are straight, THEN, AND ONLY THEN, THERE WILL BE A STRAIGHT PRIDE!
There are other things, from this article that I could go into detail about but I’m not going to. I've pretty much covered everything I could think of and if I’ve missed anything then someone else can write about it.
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