So a couple weeks ago I was sitting in the lunchroom with some of my friends, and some people who I don't really know that well. I was the only one who was queer at the table, and somebody brought up how Dumbledore is gay. Eventually some guy joked, "Well that explains all the late night meetings with Harry" (If you didn't know, In the later books Harry meets with Dumbledore to have private lessons). I was pretty mad at this, because he was suggesting that all gay people are sexual predators. I made a really sarcastic remark about how ignorant and rude that comment was. Then, today at lunch I was with some of the same girls that were there. Somehow we brought up that one day at lunch and then about 3 of them ganged up on me, saying that I shouldn't have made that sarcastic remark. While I admitted that my sarcasm was overkill, I held fast to the fact that you can change or at least affect people's perceptions and stereotypes, even if they are subconscious. They argued against that as well, and one of them asked 'How can you change stereotypes without joking about them'....Anyways what do you think?
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Re:I've been thinking about this all day...
Date: 2008/02/02 15:29
By: mylife
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I dont know if you can change them or not..but it definately makes them think about what they think/were saying. --Stephanie
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Re:I've been thinking about this all day...
Date: 2008/02/03 00:25
By: Kanae
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It's all tied up with gender stereotype, anyway. The sooner women realise the feminist adgenda is a huge part of tackling homophobia (so feminine traits can't be used to isult us: "big girl's blouse" and the like) the sooner weget it all over with.
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