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rowangolightlySorry, not following along with the crowd doing the sexual purity meme that is currently around here. I decided to play along until I got to the "Fucking Sick" part if it where I saw "practicing polyamory" listed. The meme ceased being amusing right there.
I have a thing about blindly following labels, even as unconsciously or 'innocently' as in a meme. It goes all the way back to "pollock" jokes and fat jokes and even blonde jokes. It goes all the way up to kids today saying, "Oh, that's so gay!" to mean something stupid or unfashionable.
Prejudice is prejudice, folks. Yes, maybe I'm touchy because I am poly. But what if it put being bald or being overweight or liking to game under that category. It makes a statement that anyone who practices polyamory is a depraved person. If you actually have that opinion, fine; you are entitled to your own opinion. But if you don't, whether you are poly or not, and you let that question pass you by without a blink, you are allowing bigotry.
Ultrasensitive? Maybe...but then, I've always called people on fat jokes and loser jokes and 'retarded' jokes and race and gender jokes all my life and I'm not about to stop now.
It's not that far away from "towel-head" or "nigger" or "kike" or any of the other pejorative labels we'd be aghast to hear today. It's not that horribly far away from a gang of drunks beating up on the 'limp-wristed' fella from school.
The only way to fight prejudice is to call it and not put up with it, no matter where you find it.
Prejudice is prejudice; bigotry is bigotry.
I have a thing about blindly following labels, even as unconsciously or 'innocently' as in a meme. It goes all the way back to "pollock" jokes and fat jokes and even blonde jokes. It goes all the way up to kids today saying, "Oh, that's so gay!" to mean something stupid or unfashionable.
Prejudice is prejudice, folks. Yes, maybe I'm touchy because I am poly. But what if it put being bald or being overweight or liking to game under that category. It makes a statement that anyone who practices polyamory is a depraved person. If you actually have that opinion, fine; you are entitled to your own opinion. But if you don't, whether you are poly or not, and you let that question pass you by without a blink, you are allowing bigotry.
Ultrasensitive? Maybe...but then, I've always called people on fat jokes and loser jokes and 'retarded' jokes and race and gender jokes all my life and I'm not about to stop now.
It's not that far away from "towel-head" or "nigger" or "kike" or any of the other pejorative labels we'd be aghast to hear today. It's not that horribly far away from a gang of drunks beating up on the 'limp-wristed' fella from school.
The only way to fight prejudice is to call it and not put up with it, no matter where you find it.
Prejudice is prejudice; bigotry is bigotry.
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Date: 2007-08-17 02:49 pm (UTC)That being said, I think the point she has here is that, regardless of whether they are taken seriously or not it can still be a very, very slippery slope!
What happens when prejudice mind sets become common place in those arenas, and then starting spilling over into more 'mainstream' ones??Kwim.
Methinks that's why those of us "outside the box" get our panties in a wad over stuff that initially might seem pretty lame.
Because a prejudiced statement is a prejudiced statement, and is wrong no matter *what* mouth/medium/etc it comes from.Imho.