# Would you be uncomfortable sharing meat space with troglodyte homophobes? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073 "2013-06-27T23:26:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/1 "2013-06-27T23:26:03Z")
I don’t know what it is, but I just can’t stand the idea of having to exist around [troglodyte homophobes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=694916). I mean, I might sit next to one on the BART and not even know it. Ew! They should have their own ways to get to work so I don’t have to mix with them. And before you criticize me, this is just the way I’m made and I can’t help it. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/2 "2013-06-27T23:27:36Z")
Trolls gonna troll. Don’t let it get to you. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/3 "2013-06-27T23:33:51Z")
Well [yes](http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2008/336/c/a/Troglodyte_by_BenWootten.jpg). I mean they’re creepy enough even when they aren’t homophobic. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/4 "2013-06-27T23:41:41Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Trolls gonna troll. Don’t let it get to you. I did not get that sense from reading the thread. It sounded real to me. Maybe I’m naive that way, I don’t know. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/5 "2013-06-27T23:45:04Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Well [yes](http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2008/336/c/a/Troglodyte_by_BenWootten.jpg). I mean they’re creepy enough even when they aren’t homophobic. Yes I would not want to sit next to him on the subway. I don’t even think I’d hang out long enough to figure out his political positions. Seriously, though, OP, that guy is a dooooouche. He pissed me off too. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/6 "2013-06-27T23:46:14Z")
I require very little meat space since I usually tuck and tape, but I get the impression that’s not what’s meant here. 😉 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/7 "2013-06-28T00:13:42Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > I require very little meat space since I usually tuck and tape, but I get the impression that’s not what’s meant here. 😉 🙂 Gives new meaning to “meat me in St. Louis”. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/8 "2013-06-28T01:03:41Z")
No, I totally love all homophobes. I have an old college buddy who is a homophobe and he tells the funniest jokes and we laugh and laugh and I have invited him to my home for dinner with my family and everything. I mean, I’m not a homophobe myself, but I’m not so _not_ homophobic as to be homophobephobic which you clearly are. This is 2013 and your own values are invalid and you’re an ignorant tool for denying homophobes their civil rights, just like black people and women. ETA - bigoty-bigoty-bigoty-bigoty bigot ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/9 "2013-06-28T01:37:33Z")
I thought meat space was referencing ass in the title. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/10 "2013-06-28T01:39:55Z")
Some of my best friends are homophones. Or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/11 "2013-06-28T02:14:18Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I thought meat space was referencing ass in the title. Or an especially disgusting galactic sector. “Now entering Meat Space, Captain.” _\_ ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/12 "2013-06-28T05:33:16Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Or an especially disgusting galactic sector. “Now entering Meat Space, Captain.” _\_ Set phasers to Broil. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/13 "2013-06-28T05:41:14Z")
[Now now, be nice to the homophobes, they’re people too](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/34201d7411/gay-beware-with-jesse-tyler-ferguson?rel=player) > [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Or an especially disgusting galactic sector. “Now entering Meat Space, Captain.” _\_ You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/14 "2013-06-28T06:05:19Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > [Now now, be nice to the homophobes, they’re people too](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/34201d7411/gay-beware-with-jesse-tyler-ferguson?rel=player) I respect Takei and generally agree with the video except for the part about bow ties and musicals. Bow ties are a well known symbol of membership in an Illuminati splinter group which will focus on creating the Nude World Order after the main group is done with the New World Order. The thing with the musicals though . . . I just don’t understand. Everyone knows that musicals are crime against nature. 😉 There’s probably no place far enough I can run after that is there? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/15 "2013-06-28T07:07:40Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat. “I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they’re made out of meat.” ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/16 "2013-06-28T09:17:38Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/17 "2013-06-28T09:52:20Z")
I honestly would rather distance myself from any such moronic individual. Nothing forces me to be tolerant of intolerance. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/18 "2013-06-28T14:53:48Z")
I’d be uncomfortable being near people who use the term ‘meat space’ when describing the world outside of the intrawebs. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/19 "2013-06-28T15:07:26Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they’re made out of meat.” “Maybe they’re like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage.” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073/20 "2013-06-28T15:08:27Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Well [yes](http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2008/336/c/a/Troglodyte_by_BenWootten.jpg). I mean they’re creepy enough even when they aren’t homophobic. Plus they worship [Laogzed](http://angryandsloppy.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html), and that guy’s a complete tool. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-uncomfortable-sharing-meat-space-with-troglodyte-homophobes/662073.md?page=2)