• syd
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    10 months ago

    How “straight” would insult a straight people?

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      10 months ago

      Fragile personalities that already think sexuality is scary will implode if you mention theirs

      They also believe gay is still an insult, it is to be “the other” and if you throw it right back at them their little brains go haywire

      Edit: hiiii stamets

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        10 months ago

        I love calling those sorts of people snowflakes. Gets em really riled up lul. Use their own terms against them. Out crazy them.

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      10 months ago

      Same way hearing gay used as an insult would feel to a gay person, I would imagine. Only in this case there’s the added layer of the straight person incurring cognitive dissonance. People respond to that in different ways, denial being one of them.

      At least, that’s what I came to the conclusion of when I was made aware of my behavior as a straight person. Instead of living in denial, though, I changed and banished using gay as an insult. Now I just dislike both.