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[–]KingDickThe2nd 17 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

A couple things: Shouldn't a website called LGBTQ Nation be fighting AGAINST stereotypes instead of reinforcing them?

Because they believe promoting stereotypes is accepting diversity.

This is the type of shit that made me nearly killing myself when I was 14, but only didn't because I believed others when they said such the stereotypes would slowly fade away.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

But accepting diversity should be focusing on what we have in common. Civil rights issues for racial minorities relied on the argument that whites aren't different from any other race, women's rights came after we found that women can do everything men can do (within obvious limits) and LGB rights should have been founded on the principle that being LGB does not make someone any different from a straight person, just who they sleep with.

Unfortunately, we've shifted as a culture away from acceptance of superficial differences because we're the same where it matters and towards celebrating diversity to the fault of trying to make the extremes of minorities into the norm and drowning out anything at all traditional.

One thing about TRUE diversity is that it never seeks to eliminate what is/was the norm, it only seeks to gain proper focus on everything else. But what some people today are doing is trying to replace the status quo, not change the system that benefits a select group

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is the type of shit that has me feeling like killing myself even today, to be blunt. But dying is hard so, guess I'll just do my best to never let anyone know I like guys so they can't reduce me to some humiliating stereotype.