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Random homophobic acquaintance: Risk [the board game] is gay.
Me: THIS JUST IN! Risk is homosexual! And we say that like it's a BAD THING even though it is wholly irrelevant to one's moral standing or anything else. Details at 11! /throws up hands, walks out of room

Sardonicism is pretty much my default response to "xxxx is gay" statements. So far, it hasn't gotten anyone to admit they're wrong for using 'gay' as an insult, but it makes me feel better.

PS. Shut up Firefox dictionary, sardonicism is totally a word. Wikipedia even agrees with me. I checked. -_-

<3 for "sardonicism" and sympathy for the failful homophobia in conjunction with board game selection.

That was great, Esurio. XD I'm proud of you.

Esurio, you are kind of fantastic.

Esurio's sardonicism is awesome! News at 11!

(News at 11 is one of my favorite sayings)

Yeah, there's nothing like imperialistic military strategy to make me think of being....gay. Those DADT / no gays in the military peeps are apparently out of the loop.

Haha. Yes.

Now I want to make a Gay Risk, complete with rainbow-colored troops.

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic ... 1#p5192161

"I'm okay with gays as long as the only thing weird about them is who they sleep with."

I have rather strong objections to "I don't hate members of X group as long as they don't act like members of X group" -style arguments. Assimilationism ftl.

"It's okay to mention being gay on chat, because we're all old enough to understand it, but younger people come on here too, and you don't have the right to creep them out."

blerg...

And this was by someone who I was somewhat close to, too. Who I had just told that I was gay to a day ago. When I talked to him about that, he said that he wasn't talking about me, just gay people. *sighs*

...that seems... highly illogical.

But if bigotry was required to make sense, it wouldn't exist.