{"id":4446,"date":"2010-11-18T17:01:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2010-11-18T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:06:24","slug":"sensitivity-and-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4446","title":{"rendered":"Sensitivity And Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Sensitivity%20And%20Stupidity\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>No, it&#8217;s not an unearthed Jane Austin novel &#8211; \u00a0it refers to an incident that occured on Facebook yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>For those that missed it, the topic focused on something Bob, a straight long-time high school friend, said on his \u00a0Facebook page that is supposedly offensive to gays. \u00a0I&#8217;m one of those gay person types, and I wasn&#8217;t offended in the slightest. \u00a0I can&#8217;t think of a fellow gay type friend who would also have been offended. \u00a0His comment was similar to many jokes I&#8217;ve overheard gays chuckle about at many a gay bar in my time. Never the less, two of his friends de-friended him over the post. He&#8217;s a bit upset about that.<\/p>\n<p>The ironic thing about this incident is, one of the things that often makes being gay such a struggle when you&#8217;re young &#8211; you greatly fear the loss of friends if they find out your &#8220;dark, disgusting&#8221; secret. I went way out of my way to make sure none of my friends in college knew. Even my sister, with whom I am very very close, and was my room-mate my first year at CSUF,, had no idea. As a result of hiding what I felt, who I was, I suffered a type of self imposed exile, a great loneliness, that to this day is still hard to describe.<\/p>\n<p>So, Bob has these &#8220;gay friendly&#8221; friends with whom there is a disagreement. At the slightest provocation, what do these twits do? Why, de-friend him, of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Sensitivity%20And%20Stupidity\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>No, it&#8217;s not an unearthed Jane Austin novel &#8211; \u00a0it refers to an incident that occured on Facebook yesterday. For those that missed it, the topic focused on something Bob, a straight long-time high school friend, said on his \u00a0Facebook page that is supposedly offensive to gays. \u00a0I&#8217;m one of those gay person types, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}