This hurt me to read. When are we going to start caring more about other human beings than we care about our precious, precious fear and hatred?
Because all gay people that commit suicide do it because they’re gay.
Right? Isn’t it incredibly offensive to limit a group by saying that the only problem they could ever have psychologically is their sexual orientation? That’s like saying if I ever made out with a shotgun, it’s because I can’t surf the Internet for more than six minutes without reading or hearing the word nigger eight-hundred and fifty-two times; as opposed to other types of equally “real-life” magnitude problems like running a business in the worst economic climate in eighty years. I’m certain that if any of my openly gay friends read this, they wouldn’t feel any empathy from the writing—they’d want to punch the author of it in the face.
The further implication that being straight is a default affront to homosexuality and the self-esteem of homosexual individuals is also ridiculous (at least). At the very most, however, it’s socially damaging to the folks who just want to be left alone with no greater sense of interest (including this sort of white-knighting) in their homosexuality than anyone else’s orientation. Here’s an idea—how about we all just learn to mind our own business and stop giving a fuck about who’s putting what where. The people who posted the images of Tyler Clementi didn’t push him to kill himself because he was having gay sex in those images; he killed himself because he was having sex in those images period. A pair of sociopaths who couldn’t mind their own business decided to breach another person’s privacy and literally laid him bare to the world. That would drive a person—regardless of sexuality—to suicide. You want to keep people from offing themselves? Minding your own fucking business is far more effective than convincing everybody that not cross-dressing is a hate crime.
