Mansized of course he wasn't going to respond... you probably caught him totally off guard.

When I see it that in posts it does strike a cord. It just goes to show you how much farther we have to go in society. It infuriates me sometimes and others it just rolls off my back, I don't know why.

What does get me is when you have a group of straight people who say they are tolerant and in the next moment are calling someone a fag or the such. Then they look at you as if saying, what did I do wrong. THAT PISSES ME OFF TO NO END!

In real time, I had an incident in the video store once. There was a group of kids, Seniors in HS I'd say, who were going around looking at movies. Each time they came up to a movie that was bad, one of the would say Oh that's gay. Well after about the 5th time I heard it I approached them and gave them a talk on the difference between the word bad and gay. They were not synonymous. I even went as far as to tell them that if they didn’t open their minds they will find themselves in a trouble one day – that the world was big and that they may find themselves in a position where words and attitudes like that will bring them harm. For those brief moments, not one of them joked, jibed or giggled. They seemed to listen. I’m sure I was the point of a hearty laugh afterwards, but I had my say. Two of the young people actually apologized because they didn’t realize that they were being offensive. I can only hope it was sincere.

Well there’s one of my stories ; ) I’m sure we all have our online and offline tales to tell. I’d love to hear other opinions as well. Not just online, but in real time as well.

Back to the salt mine!

Gary-Alan