Is probably the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Followed closely by “Not to be racist, but…” or my favorite “Not that there’s anything wrong with that…!!!”
It’s like a red flag that says: Incredibly homoerotic supposedly “heterosexual guys” trying to be “Funny” by doing something no gay man (self-respecting or otherwise) would do. And no, I’m not gay. But I’m a guy. And if I liked other guys, I STILL wouldn’t do 0.00001% of the stuff that gets attributed to gay people. I mean what the hell? You like the same gender so suddenly you go bat-shit fucking loco?
You just like the same gender. Who you are (for better or worse) isn’t altered.
“Not to be racist” prefaces a stupidly racist comment 99.9% of the time. The other 0.1% of the time it prefaces a slightly less stupidly racist comment. So, pretty much a misnomer. People think that if they say “Not to be racist,” it means they’re not being racist. No, it means you’re trying to trick people into thinking you don’t mean what you say. If you don’t mean what you say, then what the hell do you mean? If what you say isn’t what you mean, then you’re wasting everyone’s goddamn time, most especially your own.
I’m so sick of people trying to get away with stupid shit like this by slapping a label on it. “Oh I’m not racist because I say ‘Not to be racist’ before every goddamn racist thing I say. I’m a good person.”
No. You are an idiot. And a waste of oxygen. Not because you say racist things. Because you think that you don’t say racist things. I say racist things. I am fairly racist. I don’t act on my racism (flag burning, lynching, people burning, etc). But yeah, I’m inclined to think that my ethnicity is slightly better than everyone else’s. I can see its flaws and agree that it’s not perfect…but when it comes down to it, it’s human nature to be racist to some small degree. What matters is what you do with it and I certainly don’t go around saying racist things prefaced by “Not to be racist, but…”
No, I say racist things every so often and I preface it with “Yeah this is pretty goddamn racist but 26 years of observation have yielded the same, consistent results so I’m gonna go with it.” <—-A long preface so I usually try to keep my racism to a minimum. Or at the very least, restricted to self-racism.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that…” means that you absolutely do believe there is something wrong with that and you want everyone to ooh and ahh over how clever you were to figure it out. NO. You are not a goddamn genius. You are not cleverly misdirecting people from your true, horrid nature. If you say “Man those two guys are so gay…NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT” you very damn well do mean that you think there’s something wrong with that. So say it and be judged and realize what a terrible person it makes you for saying stupid shit like that.
“Twilight is really gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” What in the hell makes you think gay people want Twilight? They’re people, too! They probably don’t think vampires should sparkle in the sunlight. Or that Kirsten what’s-her-never-changing-face should have only one expression EVER. Gays don’t what your trash. Stop attributing everything bad to them. If two guys are having gay sex: yeah, that’s pretty gay. I don’t know why you’re watching that if you’re not gay. But that is the only time that statement would be accurate. Is Twilight gay? There’s not a single homosexual in that movie. And (this is fairly politically incorrect) it’s a movie with sparkles!
Gay people have enough problems. A world that refuses to acknowledge them because they’re gay. Religious people. Ignorant hetero people. They don’t need any more shit dumped on them (unless that’s what they’re into, in which case, fire away). Every time you say something is gay, you are announcing to the world that you think this thing, whatever it is, is equivalent to homosexuality, which to you, is the worst thing it could possibly be compared to. I say this because you don’t choose “fucked up” or “stupid” or “unbelievably dumb.” You want to convey the sheer badness of this thing and you chose “gay” as your epithet. You might as well paste a sign on your forehead that says “Shit Comes Out Here” with an arrow pointing down. You’re only announcing your own ignorance and right now, the world is full of a lot of people are clamoring pretty loudly along that same vein.
The world could use a little less ignorance. Being gay isn’t contagious. What the hell do you care if people are gay? It’s not something that can affect you, like say, people being ignorant. Your ignorance costs me time, patience, and stress. That guy over there who is gay costs me about 2 seconds of “Hmm, probably gay” and moving on with my life. The same goes for people of a different ethnicity. As long as your existence as a person of another race doesn’t significantly obstruct my life as a person of another race, what the hell do I care that we’re not ethnically the same? More power to you, let me live my life without making it difficult for me and I’ll return the favor.
“No homo” can make even a straight man see red.