One of my colleagues from college married a former student of his

[Ultra Peanut]

You know how upsetting and intensely personal this subject is for you? Now imagine it's the most painful thing you've ever dealt with in your entire life, and then imagine that people brought it up all the time, completely at random, simply because they remembered that about you -- and that they frequently brought it up to try to score points when they disagreed with you. That is why my responses to you have been so clipped and annoyed.

Also?

Originally Posted by pr_capone

I thought you might show empathy and understanding. Instead you showed me quite the opposite and you are more than welcome to that oppinion. My gay and tranny friends, I don't think, would have reacted in the same way as you did so I definitely misjudged your reaction.

Acting like people who face open bigotry on a regular basis have an obligation to act in a certain way as a result of having faced said bigotry is unbelievably absurd.

[Simply Red]

I'm entirely lost, but i'm just going to say - I'm not sure, for now.

hey thanks a lot guys!

[pr_capone]

Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

You know how upsetting and intensely personal this subject is for you? Now imagine it's the most painful thing you've ever dealt with in your entire life, and then imagine that people brought it up all the time, completely at random, simply because they remembered that about you -- and that they frequently brought it up to try to score points when they disagreed with you. That is why my responses to you have been so clipped and annoyed.

Also?


Acting like people who face open bigotry on a regular basis have an obligation to act in a certain way as a result of having faced said bigotry is unbelievably absurd.

Oh ****ing WHAAAAAH. You aren't obligated to act any specific way... you just didn't act the way I anticipated you would based on your experience based on my how the people I know in similar shoes would have acted.

I wasn't trying to score points against you... I was trying to have a conversation, not win an argument. I can understand why you are defensive about it, or maybe I don't... who the **** knows with you. Not everyone you talk to on here is trying to beat you over the head with it. Tell you what though... you "win". This argument that this shit turned into is all yours. You can treasure it as the day you beat down the guy that thought you just might be be more understanding of others doing nothing wrong yet doing something socially unacceptable because it made them happy and complete because of your personal experience.

/10 internets for you