Queer-eye for the straight woman

[VeloVT]

I'm really disappointed that another lighthearted post has been turned into yet another soapbox on TE. Are we so wrapped up in our own PC world, that we need to school everyone whenever we feel a possible slight.

It's not just this post, and the use of the word queer. It's the "I'm so much better because I don't shop at walmart", "I never eat beef so I'm a much better human", "all conservative Christians are stupid".

People have been driven off these boards by the holier than thou behavior of a few, and I'm sick of it; to the point where I wonder if I even want to be a part of this community any more.

//snap - straight, queer loving, pagan, liberal that believes in tolerance for everyone, not just those you agree with.

You know, I really disagree with this. What's the alternative to "being so wrapped up in our PC world that we have to school everyone whenever we feel a possible slight"? Sitting at the dinner table and eating up someone's offensive black jokes because objecting to them would be "holier than thou"?

And who really wants to be "tolerated" anyway ? (And one is forced to wonder how far "toleration" really goes, if it does not admit others the right to express their differences).

I don't have a dog in this fight (that is, I'm not gay and so **I** did not feel stereotyped by the original post), but I think the community needs to allow everyone the right to let others know if they have, perhaps unknowingly and unintentionally, caused offense. I remember seeing threads about breast implants and "may -- december" romance here recently in which valuable discussion ensued from members exercising their right to respectfully let others know they have been offended.

That's all.