Bashin' File

Check this out:



Now, since Ogaypogo seems to think - and I quote - that "posting a video and calling it a blog is not a blog", I will accompany the above video with some commentary. (Love you!)

I think it's great that the majority of people were totally fine with those lads canoodling. I think it's awesome to see straight, older men telling a jackass in a bar to cool it with the gay jokes. I think it's wonderful that a woman could be so upset at the situation to refuse to stay in it (and to have a kickass quote: "So you can't kiss your boyfriend in f***in' America?").

Overall, I think the people in this video are fine, upstanding humans.

The real offenders, however, are the producers. I'm sorry, but in this day and age, tolerance is not a virtue. Acceptance is.

According to Merriam-Webster, tolerance is the "ability to endure pain or hardship"; whereas, being accepted is "being generally approved of". In my life I would much rather be approved of than endured, don't you agree?

Tolerance has been an interesting buzzword lately in the politics surrounding gay issues. While it is a step above previous opinions, it still has an undertone of disapproval or of giving just enough to assuage us for the moment. I don't want people's approach to the gay community to be that of dealing with us kindly enough until we are done our tantrums as you would a child. I want to be embraced and cared for, like every human deserves to be.

So while this video shows that most certainly attitudes are changing by leaps and bounds, I think the real attitude change needs to happen in the vocabulary we use surrounding our gay brothers and sisters.

But, in the meantime, I guess I'll just have to tolerate those who have yet to come around.