" "I support homosexuality" :D "

“Why on earth do people come out with trite crap like that?
It may have good intentions behind it, but really if you think about it it’s patronizing as hell and completely pointless.
Do gay or bi people walk up to straight people and say “I’m not straight myself, but I support straight people!”
No.
Because it’s a sexuality. It doesn’t need your support.
It just is.
It’s pretty much someone saying “I approve of your sexuality”
I don’t need your approval! Fuck off!

It’s almost as pointless as people saying
“Aww, you’re gay! I love gay people!” or “Gay boys are cute”
Bollocks.
You can’t love “gay people”, there are too many of them and not enough time.
Gay boys are just boys who are gay. They are not cute. They are individuals. Some are quite hideous and make small babies cry.
Just because they like the cock doesn’t automatically make them cute!
…unless you’re also gay very drunk and very horny and the lights are quite dim.

Anyhow. I was going somewhere with this.
Yes.

If I walked up to a group of black people and said
“Aww! You’re black! I support black people”
I’d probably get a free ride in an ambulance.

If you honestly don’t have a problem with people who have different sexualities to your own, then treat them ‘normally’.
Don’t patronize them or make them feel like they should be grateful that you accept or approve of them. They don’t need your approval.
It’s a sexuality, not a show dog.”

A gay man on a forum I regularly visit wrote the above as a response to seeing a topic somewhere else with the title “I support homosexuality”
Inside the topic, everyone was praising the original poster for their views.
There are bits I wouldn’t say myself. I wouldn’t make the comparison between the treatment of heterosexuality and the treatment of homosexuality because one of them is a privileged group and the other isn’t, but the point still stands. People in oppressed groups don’t need strange useless seeming people making them feel awkward.
They’re still people, so treat them like you would anyone else.
I would have left out the analogy between being gay, and being black. For one thing, comparing oppressions isn’t cool and for another it suggests to me that black = violent.

I thought I’d post it here anyway in an unaltered form, to get it a bit of a larger readership. Only like 10 people go to the forum it was posted in. The username of the guy who write it is ‘Ebil” N’he gave me permission to reproduce it.

Man, I feel like shit.

This feminism thing hurts. Sometimes it just doesn’t feel very nice at all. Like right now. Right now I feel pretty bad.

The last time I remember this happening, I was sitting at uiversity lying on my back on a nice comfortable patch of grass. I was tired so I closed my eyes, and I felt myself dozing off. Then I stopped myself. “You can’t doze off Celly, if you do, something bad will happen.” I tried to ignore the voice, but I couldn’t. “Something bad will happen, and if it does, it will be your fault.” I tried telling myself that I was being irrational, wha bad thing was going to happen to me on my university campus in broad daylight? I thought of a few things. Regular assault, sexual assault, rape. They could have all happened to me if I didn’t get up and keep my eyes open. I know I was being silly, and I tried to calm myself down by telling myself none of these things would happen, but another part of me was terrified. I started playing out scenarios in my head of what the aftermath would be if this mysterious ’something bad’ did happen. It would be my fault, for lying down on the grass in public and dozing off. That’s not something you do, that’s downright unsafe.
I tried to tell myself that I didn’t need to fear, and that I shouldn’t have to fear, but fear I did. I found myself understanding this. As I was lying there having this warped inner conversation I thought about that piece.
At some point I gave up. I sat up. I kept my eyes open. It stopped that awful inner dialogue, but I shouldn’t have had to get up, because I shouldn’t have had to worry.

That was scary.

I’m feeling bad again now. Someone in some forum made a post about gay people ‘oppressing’ straight people, by calling them names like “breeder.” I tried to explain that oppression doesn’t work like that, and how gay people can’t bloody well oppress straight people, and as I wrote about it, I started to just feel bad. I started sort of numbing, and then I felt icky.

Then I got into a conversation about prostitution, some girl said that prostitutes aren’t ever forced into their jobs, and if they make bad decisions that’s their own fault. This made me feel bad, and as I tried to talk about other things, about the trafficking of women and girls into sex slavery, about rape, about choice and the idea of free choice…
I started feeling worse. I don’t know how to describe it. I just feel bad. It’s a sadness, I sort of thought I was going to cry for a little while there, but it hasn’t happened yet, and it likely won’t.

It’s 7:30am and I’ve not gone to bed yet. I’m going to sleep, and hopefully I’m going to feel better when I wake up.

You say "cult classic" I say "sexist, racist, homophobic piece of crap"

I’ve been told, many a time that the movie ‘Fire & Ice’ was something worth seeing. A cult classic I was told. When I was in my old animation college people told me that the animation (based off rotoscoping) was not great, but regardless it’s something I should see.

So when my housemate bought a copy of it recently, I decided why not check it out, I’d been told such good things about it after all. So, to anyone looking for a decent animation to watch, I’ll tell you with this hindsight.
Don’t seek out Fire and Ice.

We’re told in the beginning through some text that the world was being taken over by an evil woman named Juliana, who had a son named Neckron who she taught the black arts. Her son is now taking over the world as a major evil. He’s in charge, and doing all the evil things throughout the movie but really, it’s his mothers fault. She taught him to be that way. The good guy is called King Jerrold. He’s a swell guy!

We open with a scene of Neckron destroying a villiage full of strapping white men with a glacier. Somehow, from the glacier evil black men attack!

We come to a scene where the black men are harrassing a white woman, who has been chained down. They speak only in grunts, a white man we saw earlier in the villiage wakes up, then brutally kills several of the black men in a chase scene. Killing these black men is perfectly alright, they are after all bad guys. (Referred to as ‘The subhumans’ and ‘The dogs of Neckron’ later. Lets take a closer look at these guys They look human to me)
Our white male hero escapes them by jumping off a cliff, and not dying. ‘Cause he’s buff.

Cut to a scene of Juliana and Neckron talking, here we affirm that Juliana is egging our evil man on. She’s an evil mother she is! She orders that King Jerrold’s daugher be kidnapped, cut scene.

We get some conversation between the king and his daughter, where she wants to do something of use, and he says that she must stay in the castle. We then see her learning about the elements from her female teacher in her bedroom, neither of which are wearing very much in the way of clothing.
She complains that the men are getting the glory while she has to stay at home, and this is unfair. All the while, the camera pans up and down her lovely body, we get shots of her breasts and thighs, as she lolls around on her bed. I wonder if the people who made this film intended her to be a strong female, what with her talks of wanting independance. (Reminds me of something I saw in a ‘the making of Cinderella’ documentary. Cindy was a ’strong female’ because she went out and got her man unlike all previous Disney Princesses.)

Evil black men storm in, knock the teacher unconscious, and steal the Princess (who is named Teegra)

They take her to a river so they can relax, and they push her in. She takes her chance and decides to make herself look as alluring as possible, she dips in and out of the water as the black men stare at her longingly, on her last dip in, she swims for freedom! What an escape plan!

She gets to the other side of the lake, and runs for her life, jiggling about the forest looking scared.

This is how she will continue to look throughout the movie, or at least, the parts where she’s not being Lead around on a chain by either the black men, or Juliana

She meets the strong brave white man we encountered her earlier, and continues a pattern of being chased, captured, retrieved, escaping etc.

Oh, I can’t do this scene by scene thing anymore, the movie is bad, geddit!

Some more things of interest: Teegra, who walks around, sits, runs and does everything else in submissive postures also brutally kills some black ’subhumans’ It’s okay to kill them, they’re subhuman.

Also, we have an evil lesbian like the evil Juliana, this evil lesbian practices witchcraft. She has a lightly coloured servile man with her, who she tells Teegra not to be scared of “He’s as harmless as a child.” She kisses Teegra in her sleep, which is how we learn of her sexual preferences. (Are you getting the message oh whiteheterosexualmale audience? Lesbians are evil, and want to steal your women!)

There’s a token ‘good’ coloured guy His name is Darkwolf. In case you couldn’t tell he’s dark by the colour of his skin, they put it in his name as well!

Juliana is called a bitch once.

Teegra is called a bitch, a slut and a skank, once each.

The strongest insult a male seems to get is something along the lines of ‘foolish boy’

This movie was made with all the values of white male supremacy. I’m sure there’s more instances of bad things, but I can’t recall them off the top of my head, and I don’t want to keep writing.