I'm no Foucault, but this is just screwed up.
Some of you might have already been added, or received a friend request by a certain Loveisjustaword Wong on Facebook.Well, I did. When I get weird friend requests, I accept them and do what I do best--Stalk. This profile was exceptionally weird, in the sense that it went:
The fuck? I shit you not. I know I'm not that much of a gay rights activist, and I'm no Foucault, but this profile irked me. I thought the profile was meant to be a weird kind of joke, so I left it unquestioned, and I didn't bother much with this person until, upon receiving the notification that I accepted his friend request, he sent this straight into my inbox. It irked me, so I fired back at him a volley of questions and accusations that I think would be comprehensive enough to pass of as a blog post. Here's the entire conversation. I do not think that he'd reply me anymore:
If you don't find this to be a very demeaning joke, then I don't know what else to think about you as a person and human being.
Sure, he might truly be trying his luck at finding a partner on Facebook by adding guys, but seriously, if I were a homosexual, I won't be trying my luck on Facebook, I'd rather go to a forum for homosexuals, through which I can find other people who share the same interest as me.
Let's, for argument's sake, liken homosexuality to Chinese chess. If I were trying to find another Xiang Qi player, I'd rather go to clubxiangqi.com, instead of attempting to Google "Chess", because "Chess" is too generic and I'd end up getting variations that I do not want.
That's what this guy here is doing. He is going to get many varied responses to what he is propositioning, and by that count, incurring the wrath or irritation of the people who feel pestered by him. Others would take him to be representative of homosexuals, and would stereotype homosexuals to be intrusive.
And by doing so, he is getting responses to critique homosexuals. Imagine this, a straight man who is quite offended by this intrusion by a random dude would get pissed, and state something derogatory about homosexuals, and feel that all of them are similar--intrusive, and adopt a close-minded attitude against homosexuals even if they weren't hitting on the straight man himself.
I don't know what you would think of this, but I find this act very irksome. Let me reiterate: I am perfectly OK with homosexuals. You can see this by the level of respect I have for them--I have never used the word "Gay" in this post at all. "Gay" just sounds so..derogatory, even if it's not meant to sound that way, it does to me, so I'd rather not use that word.
I know I'm being logically inconsistent, seeing as I was quite anti-homosexuals a few years back, but I grew up and became more open-minded and have become a better individual definitely.
And I really don't get Facebook and The Straits Times and how they're kind of merging. I just saw this article being liked on Facebook by several friends of mine:
Uhh..what's there to like? The fact that 2 guys were having oral sex in a public toilet? You like this kind of thing? What's there to like? Seriously. Grow up. It's not even funny that 2 homosexuals were caught for such a "crime"? I mean..why not just leave them be? Whatever happened to the supposed privacy of the toilet cubicles? Why take a video? To post on Stomp! ? Fuck off, seriously, citizen journalism is making all of us feel like heroes. Trust me on this, I felt the call of power once, I heeded it, and I grew up and out of it.
Really. Just..ditch this bullshit. Some articles are not meant to be "liked" at all. It only proves how much of a shallow piece of shit you are, liking articles to make yourself seem well-read and as a show of solidarity towards others who read the newspapers online. Seriously, read the printed version. I'd rather read things offline than online. If you had a choice to read it in print, THEN READ IT IN PRINT. It's already printed, it's better for your eyes, so what are you waiting for? You don't have to make known that you know.
Seriously...kids these days.
-- 11/24/2010 08:03:00 PM