Lacking In Emotional Content The state of ralph emerson mcginnis
This online journal and blog is for anything that pops into my head while I'm not working on more important things. I'm a visual artist and writer. Read more about me here.
More on the "art fags" issue. Orin, the girl running that site has a livejournal. Read the comments on her latest post.
I know, as the hate filled bile drips from their keyboards, that they think they are being appropriately irreverent, and that I take myself to seriously. And I do. But it's because I know what its like to be a young man who hasn't come to terms with his sexuality hanging with all his friends, who don't know he is gay, as they make all their jokes. "FAG" as a joking insult is not funny to someone who actually is gay, but hasn't come out. It sends a clear message that the people he calls friends see being gay as something so laughable and/or horrible that it is an appropriate stinging insult. I'm afraid that the backlash to the overly Politically Correct movement of the last decade has created more disrespect and insensitivity than ever before. And I worry deeply for the safety of young gay people everywhere.