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In reply to the discussion: ATTN DU! A warning about gay & lesbian neighbors. This happened to me. [View all]LaMouffette
(2,030 posts)109. Yup, and I should've known better too due a work project I did recently about disability rights.
One of the themes was the exasperation people with disabilities experience with well-meaning people who praise them as courageous and inspiring superheroes just for carrying out normal everyday activities. They call it the "supercrip stereotype" and see it as a form of othering (much like what I just did!).
Anyway, thanks for the reminder and Happy New Year to you!
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ATTN DU! A warning about gay & lesbian neighbors. This happened to me. [View all]
Botany
Dec 2020
OP
When I had surgery a few years ago, they brought food for days and offered to take care of me while
redstatebluegirl
Dec 2020
#2
You will have a choice in the matter only after all your old friends try to hook you up...
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2020
#80
My neighborhood has several of these people and we have come to expect such deviant....
RussellCattle
Dec 2020
#3
My husband and I were the handymen in the building of the condo we just sold.
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2020
#82
Gay people rock! I have never known anyone gay who wasn't the nicest, kindest, most thoughtful
LaMouffette
Dec 2020
#8
Gay people are human beings, with the normal amount of good qualities and flaws.
pnwmom
Dec 2020
#53
I'm sorry about the othering! I guess "Gay people rock!" is a pretty broad generalization,
LaMouffette
Dec 2020
#107
Yup, and I should've known better too due a work project I did recently about disability rights.
LaMouffette
Jan 2021
#109
My gay neighbors brought me food and shoveled my snow when I broke my leg this year.
Irish_Dem
Dec 2020
#10
Interesting, play mediates the stress response to make it more functional in the future.
Irish_Dem
Dec 2020
#36
I don't think it was in that video but I have seen both the dog and then the bear showing each ...
Botany
Dec 2020
#39
Right, husky just sat there. Didn't look like he much of a choice, but he didn't fight it.
Irish_Dem
Dec 2020
#41
OMG really! so what is the word I am looking for.... awesome! 😊 My daughter is Gay and
Demsrule86
Dec 2020
#17
I appreciate that there are so many people who aren't antagonistic toward gay people.
David__77
Dec 2020
#24
I hope the same thing David. Young people today seem much more accepting of the fluidity of
Irish_Dem
Dec 2020
#48
Quick, call up some evilgelicals. Maybe the news will put them in a coma.
Hermit-The-Prog
Dec 2020
#34
Well I barely know one of the couples who dropped off cookies and since they are both ....
Botany
Dec 2020
#46
After we moved out of our old house the gay neighbors saved the life of the neighbor
GulfCoast66
Dec 2020
#44
To their friends and neighbors, my parents looked like heterosexual grandparents.
pnwmom
Dec 2020
#70
WARNING: we (gays) give our straight neighbors goodies and they even give us goodies back! n/t
AntiFascist
Dec 2020
#64
NO!!! Please tell me they didn't force their cookie-eating lifestyle on you!
CaptainTruth
Dec 2020
#94
And worst of all: they like to buy vintage - but run-down - homes, and fix them up!
sandensea
Dec 2020
#98
Double income, educated, and they fixup homes and raise the property value too.
Botany
Dec 2020
#100