Re: "if that makes any difference"

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> Well, sure, so do I, but that's not the point.  "Some of my best friends
> are X" is the bigot's motto, and "straight but not narrow" sounds like a
> kindred phrase, along with Seinfeld's "I'm not gay - Not That There's
> Anything Wrong With That!"  The SBNN stickers just seem like the driver
> is going out of their way to point out that they're not gay.  "Hey,
> there's nothing wrong with being gay, but don't for a minute think that
> *I'm* gay!  No, sir!  That'd be horrible if you thought that!"  If
> you're concerned about people thinking you're gay, then the unavoidable
> implication is that you think there *is* something wrong with it.
"Concerned" may be a strong word, but I don't like people thinking I'm things
I'm not. I'm not gay, so I don't like people to think I'm gay. I find it
slightly hard to accept that this should imply I think there's something wrong
with being gay, female, old, having a job, being Estonian, Italian, brown-eyed,
... the list goes on.

                                                    Andreas

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