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Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
3. They don't just hate you
Fri May 24, 2013, 01:01 PM
May 2013

They hate ANYone that isn't a carbon copy of what they envision themselves to be...The problem lies with THEM,not any "others".

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
6. Many different reasons; just depends upon who is hating.
Fri May 24, 2013, 04:32 PM
May 2013

Regardless, I don't spend my life trying to figure it out, nor do I try to accommodate their biases. I spend my time almost exclusively with other gay people, and some straight people who really seem to enjoy relationships which they have with gay people.

I left the Catholic Church because it was a complete and utter waste of my time and energy. I left home so that I could actually have some semblance of a full, real life as a gay man.

Obviously, some don't have the resources I may have had, nor the inner strength, to pull themselves away from such poison and toxicity, but for me, it was a matter of life and death, almost literally.

I don't know how old you are, but if you are young, you may not understand fully that people do die, we all do, and one second wasted on being a minstrel is a second you could have spent doing something you wanted to do but that instead, you chose to spend that second doing what SOMEONE ELSE wanted you to do AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE. No thanks.

Cheers.

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
7. If it wasn't us, it would be someone else. In that respect, we're actually helping others by
Fri May 24, 2013, 08:35 PM
May 2013

absorbing some of it :p

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
8. I don't know...
Fri May 24, 2013, 11:06 PM
May 2013

I for one would rather see the ones so full of hate just grow up and quit hating people. Us. Anyone they've hated in the past. And the ones the have lined up on the list after us to hate next.

I'm tired of us absorbing it - both for ourselves, and others.

This world has enough problems without the unnecessary hate some people just feel the need to bring to others.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
9. Maybe it's because conservatives generally have a great deal of difficulty thinking for themselves,
Sat May 25, 2013, 02:55 AM
May 2013

so they just do what they are told. Someone or something told them they're supposed to hate us, so that's what they do. They never sincerely question why they hate us, even though it makes no logical sense at all to hate us.

Fearless

(18,421 posts)
10. Fear of what is different.
Sat May 25, 2013, 02:14 PM
May 2013

People are by nature afraid of doing new things or the thought that they may be required to get out of their comfort zone once in a while. It's pathetic.

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)
12. And never forget, they don't ALL hate us. I'm remarkably lucky that while I live in Mississippi
Sun May 26, 2013, 12:20 AM
May 2013

I experience next to no prejudice. Much of that is due to leading a very sedate lifestyle but we are open about who we are to our neighbors, at the gym and at our small Episcopal church. We only have a few straight friends but thy are more than enough and when I really want gay company there's a wonderful gay men's campground about 4 hours away.

Surround yourself as much as you can with affirmative people-then you won't give a shit what the haters think. Let them rot in their own ignorance and intolerance.

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