I have never seen a single NSFW warning on a link that goes to an openly heterosexual-oriented site with advertising, but 5-4-Fighting thought that a warning should be included for a link to a site that went to an openly gay-oriented site with advertising. As was pointed out, this website has “no explicit images or language.” The bigoted attitude that this link needed a special warning was endorsed by a moderator, tomndebb, which comes across to me as an endorsement of homophobia.
Does this message board support a double standard against gay and lesbian themed material? tomndebb, why did you choose to add a comment on this link? Would you add the same comment for a link to a heterosexual-oriented site?
I’m gay and fight the good fight every day of my life. In fact, part of the discussion there was about how far we as a society have come in terms of acceptance. Therefore, I thought I’d be considerate of those people in workplaces where the bosses might not understand if they walked by and saw two men standing in intimate juxtaposition to each other, as sometimes happens on a message board called Outsports.
Yup. ‘S why I agree with you completely. Now, the link you posted was perfectly worksafe, really (although I think it can be argued that the word “Gay” in the headline will certainly attract more bosses’ attentions to non-work computer use, but that’s neither here nor there). But however abhorrent I find it personally, the double standard remains, and I think we still need to be aware of it. As you clearly are, and as 2.5 needs to get over.
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Nah- I’m the dog near this fight, wondering WTF is going on.
Look, maybe YOU can’t notice the pro-homophobia behind all the anti-atheism, political apathy, and general disdain for trivial answers to odd questions, but the rest of us sure can.
There was a time when there was a great deal more “tolerance” shown toward virulent homophobia on these boards, dismissed as just “another opinion.” But due to the constant protests of me and others like me–it was one of the topics referred to when I was called a one-trick pony–it’s now been largely marginalized; on a par with racism, as it should be, rather than religious tolerance, as it was.
So 2.5, historically speaking, this is a fight that has been fought and, I say again largely, won.
