>how it would feel if every message you were getting from your
>society (TV, movies, commercials and marketing, greetings
>cards, magazines etc) was telling you being gay was normal.
Which is a bit of an emotional appeal. One may as well be offended because people everywhere are not talking about the straight dope but instead about some other website. Then all Dopers will have to get together an put a big Parade of Doom™.
The problem with using “offendedness” as a standard is that no accusation can be denied. One could be offended by the existance of bread pudding and nobody could say that you’re not, and attempts to show that it is irrational will just provoke the charge of insensitivity.
(By the way, I had no idea about the gay-lisp connection, and my statement that was interpreted to mean that the connection was truth is…well…misinterpreted. Learn something every day…and most of the time it’s from the SDMB )
I’m not sure “offended” is the right word. I don’t get offended by the standard male/female couple driving the latest car in a commercial, or going on a honeymoon using Orbitz. It just makes me realize, over and over again, how much I don’t fit that image of society. Is it unreasonable to want at least one day, one image, that does fit me? Which also explains why gay people are so loyal to movies with gay plotlines.
Hardly a fair analogy, as the Straight Dope can hardly be said to be an essential part of who you are. If you had never discovered this site you wouldn’t even know what you were missing when ppl. talked about some other site. And there’s not one site anywhere that has the same place on the Web as the heterosexual norm has in our daily life.
And no, it’s not about being offended by heterosexuality everywhere. It’s about everyday homosexuality being invisible.
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