Heterophobes and Straight-Bashers?

Question

The typical hate-spewing homophobic religous gay-bashers say a lot of sick and cruel things to attack, ridicule, and demean people that aren't strictly heterosexual.

Why is it that if a straight person post friendly answers (or questions) in this section they are attacked by bisexuals and homosexuals as being "in the closet", or treated as some kind intruders (like we aren't suppose to be looking through here), or have our questions/answers considered irrelevant just because we are straight?

I try to accept people for who they are, I don't tell them they HAVE to be straight, and I try to offer the best advice I can to help out.

Why is it that non-heterosexuals attack the heterosexuals that are for acceptance and understanding of alternative lifestyles and treating heteroesexuals as beneath them and unworthy of respect?

How do all of you non-heterosexuals expect to gain acceptance, understanding, and respect by being so spiteful and inconsiderate of heterosexuals?

I must appologize for the broad generalization that "lumped" both the decent people and the not so decent (to which I was actually talking about). It was an unintentional oversight and wrong of me.

I must also apologize for the wording of my question, I didn't not realize that hostile individuals have made attacks with similarly worded questions.

And I must also apologize if my questions came across as angry, was kinda venting a bit, but its more of being annoyed rather than angry. I was trying to figure out why people would make such attacks, and I let that annoyance taint my wording with harsher tones.

It just bothers me when people of a minority (whether its women, non-heterosexuals, or members of a particular race) try to earn equal respect and acceptance into the larger society and then shoot themselves in the foot by behaving exactly like those that seek to opress them.

I appreciate most of the answers so far...

Answer 1

Please keep in mind that you can't tell who is actually hiding behind the avatars you see here. There are some homophobes masquerading as gay who post answers of the type you describe in the hope that others will draw the conclusion you did here. Also many answering questions in Y!A are immature teens or younger, not yet having enough life experience to respond in a civil mature manner. Don't lump everyone in the same broad generalization. Such generalizations are never true. Your question is intelligently worded and you have excellent command of the English language which leads me to believe you are likely a fair and mature individual. I am sure if you look within you will find yourself to be above the bias you have expressed here today and will reconsider your stance. At least I hope so. Be well.

Addendum:

I think if you wait just a bit then check back you will find that most of the up thumb ratings will be for posts that supported you in some way and most of the down thumb ratings for posts that did not. That should tell you something.

Answer 2

I looked at a couple of your answers and can see your point.

Understand though, because of Yahoo's lousy administration this forum has been under attack for days by less reasonable people than yourself. Unfortunately you are getting a knee jerk reaction from just a few participants. Also you must realize that kids, very young kids, are running wild on all the forums in Y!A not just LGBT and the responses aren't particularly well tempered.

The line is crossed when zealots come in with "friendly" lectures and sermons, or wishing to debate our very existence. If you can not see that the lines are crossed between sincere seeker of information and someone with an ax to grind, perhaps you may have a real answer to your question.

As with any segment of the population, we are not all the same, we come in every temperament, and I hope you understand that Yahoo!Answers is not necessarily the best place to have a reasonable discussion about ANYTHING.

Answer 3

First, you do seem to be genuine based on your past questions/answers. Kudos.

Umm, realize that the LGBT area gets attacked a lot by gay-bashers. While it might not be nice, a lot of people here automatically respond by putting down something less than friendly. They read the questions a little too quickly. But it's also pretty justified. Who would really want to fully read something they thought was going to attack them?

To be fair, at first I thought your question, esp. based on your title, was going to be a gay basher complaining about how gays want to force everybody to be homosexual.

And people can sometimes just flip around nicknames and avatars and post a few innocent questions and then go on a gay-bashing roll by using those responses. After all, I might well be a really ugly Martian hiding behind that handsome avatar (well, as handsome as I could get him with the options provided).

Answer 4

it's unfortunate when straight, supportive come here and ask legitimate questions and get hassled for it. sometimes, it's the context or the wording. there are sincere, supportive straight people who post questions here all the time, and they are welcome. I have no problem with straight people at all. most of my friends are straight...and supportive. some people come here and post questions that don't really fit this category and that can be confusing. are they posting accidentally in the wrong forum? who knows. I am not spiteful and inconsiderate to the sincere, supportive heterosexuals. it's the bigots and bashers that I can't show any respect towards....and if you read down all the questions posted in this forum, it's pretty easy to see who they are.

Answer 5

If the person is straight, but is asking about gay/lesbian/bi/trans issues, there's usually not a problem. A few idiots will say mean stuff because... well, every group of people has it's idiots. (Tho I think some of them here are really anti-gay people pretending to be gay to make the rest of us look bad.)

OTOH, if a straight person comes here asking about straight issues (like 'what to women want from men' or stuff like that,) then they're just in the wrong place for the question they're asking.

Answer 6

People vary. Some somewhat insecure people on all sides post regularly to the internet, because they don't have to actually look at the person they are spewing to.

I'm sorry if you have been the victim of anti-straight spew -- I'm quite sure it hasn't been from me.

Have a great day.

Regards,

Reyn
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Answer 7

Thanks for sharing. Really.

I'm a bit wary about your notion that all of these gay or bisexual folks do this "en masse" though it might feel that way to you.

Bravo for accepting folks as they are. Remember that some people are in a very new place of working out their anger at the straight world's unaccepting ways, and some might be prone to overly protecting their new (to them) turf.

Careful about generalizations! They get us all in trouble. Avoid using terms like "all of you non-heterosexuals" because you're certainly missing a lot of folks in those pronouncements.

Answer 8

**Why is it that if a straight person post friendly answers (or questions) in this section they are attacked by bisexuals and homosexuals as being "in the closet", or treated as some kind intruders (like we aren't suppose to be looking through here), or have our questions/answers considered irrelevant just because we are straight?**


The answer is:

I don't.

I like straight people's input in this section.

Be well.

Answer 9

Go back and Post links to the questions that were "friendly" and got "attacked".

Answer 10

I, for one, am very sorry if that has been your experience. I think that sometimes what happens is that people make an assumption that someone is being a jerk, when they're actually asking an honest question.