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Thread #151677   Message #3553098
Posted By: GUEST,Musket sad now
26-Aug-13 - 02:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
Subject: RE: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
Read your post above my last one, or get a friend to read it to you.

If you have one.

If they are a friend, perhaps they will point out nicely to you that generalising in a derogatory way about a section of society isn't nice, isn't clever and now, isn't legal.

You won't see me in court, you thick twat. I have better things to do than turn up to stare at dead horses. Homophobia is at long last becoming an embarrassing aspect of the past. Criminalising it is a bit strong, I admit, but if it helps save lives eh?

I suggest you look at some websites that may be new to you? The Health Protection Agency for instance. Ok, they are changing their name, same as every other quango these days, but they have some fascinating data. The bit I commend to you is where they note how gay people tend to cluster, especially in cities so they can go about their business with less stigma from ignorant people who see them as different in some way. A similar trait exists in many other minority groups, hence health statistics are skewed.

We end up with asking why late onset diabetes is prevalent in some Northern towns. Oh, that'll be Indian Sub Continent clusters. HIV? Gay people end to drift to areas of large cities where they are either ignored or accepted. Either being better than disapproving looks from peasants.

Health statistics.. Fascinating when understood, dangerous when pounced upon to justify odious views about people who are different to you.

Akenhateon still hasn't explained to those still wishing to give him the benefit of the doubt why forcing gay people to come forward for testing of HIV is a good idea but forcing women to come forward to explain their sex lives and be tested for clamydia, which is a far more dangerous issue for society is a bad idea and I need to be struck from Mudcat for suggesting women could be as dirty as "homosexuals."

Hang on, I'm about to puke.