Gay People
I was on the bus home today and just my luck I got to sit next to school children. I say school children, strictly speaking it was still school time and they weren’t in school. Anyway, due to my proximity I could hear what they were saying, though, for the most part, not understand their gibberish. It makes me feel old when I can’t understand a word that the youth today say, but then I realise that it is in a large part down to the fact that they are illiterate fools who don’t speak properly and I feel much better. Of the few things I could make out (apart from the jokes about bears (bare jokes) and something to do with swearing down, whatever that means) I heard them making fun of a gay couple. This in itself is pretty disgusting in my book, but the amusing thing was that their only argument was “hurr hurr hurr you’re gay!” After ignoring them for a while, far longer than I would have, one turned around and simply said “And? What’s you’re point?” I felt like clapping, I would have if I wasn’t so intimated by the five thirteen year olds.
So what do you think? Has this happened to you or a friend - have you been taunted, or watched some one be shouted at just for who they are? What did you do?
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September 8th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Hahaha. Gay!
September 9th, 2007 at 6:47 am
I think you don’t give young people enough credit. For every gaggle of douchebags in middle school, there are at least ten more out there that are quiet but respectful. Shame on you for stereotyping based on the small but vocal minority.
Still, kudos to the gay couple that spoke up and didn’t back down. That takes guts no matter who you are.
Also, according to UrbanDictionary, Swearing Down is some kind of British Slang meaning that whatever they’re saying is 100 percent true. Kind of like saying that you Swear to God or something, I guess.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Oh, I didn’t mean to paint all children with the same brush, after all, it was only a few years ago that I was in school. But, I have noticed a significant change in the attitudes in the youth of today, and it seems that more and more children are growing up in anti-social idiots. To say this incident ws the first time I had witnessed that kind of behaviour is a lie. The stereotype I put forward is based on years growing up in areas where this behvaiour is the majority.
Perhaps the situation is different in the US, but here in the UK the problems with anti-social children is growing to epic proportians. Sure there are plenty of children that are kind and polite, but that in no way makes it acceptable for group of children to openly taunt people they have never met on a public bus. It’s not the first thing it has happened and sadly it won’t be the last.
September 9th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Sadly, the human race is a pretty misguided bunch, who lash out at those who differ due to insecurity. Of course this is not a blanket statement, but the reality seems to be the louder you are, the less sure of yourself you are. Odd how the loud people tend to wind up in positions of power. They just end up yelling at those people they’re afraid of from a pulpit instead of the back of a bus. It’s infuriating, maybe I’ll go yell at somebody about it.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:03 am
I haven’t heard ’swear down’ in a while!
October 4th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Heh, I guess when you leave Dartford and go to France you hear a whole new load of slang! =P
November 28th, 2007 at 7:25 am
We had two schools where I graduated (last year). The school I was in was mostly good about gay people, but the other school pelted the school’s flaming gay guy. When I was with my gay friend and this tall guy called him a disgusting faggot, I yelled at them for ten minutes about how it’s ridiculous about how judgemental they could be without even knowing them. The guy got all flustered and took off. My gay friend told me if I ever embarrassed him again like that, he’d kill me. But at least I felt better and I bet that guy would never make another comment like that again :P
November 29th, 2007 at 10:32 am
you know I think you would like this move that came out in the states called “Chuck And Larry”
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Back in highschool (in the year 2000 or 2001 I can’t quite remember), I had left my boyfriend for a woman. He and a few of his friends (whom I thought were friends of mine) decided to chant “Slut Slut Lesbian Slut” at me over an entire lunch period. And the sad part was, he had convinced me I deserved it. Let’s just say I haven’t spoken to him since highschool.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:49 am
I have some friends who are either bi or gay, and when I hear other kids around school saying “That’s so gay” it really rubs me the wrong way, and I’ll usually bring it up with them. I find most kids don’t even realise they’re saying it. It just kind of became a part of their vocabulary, which is really sad. I’ve never really let that infiltrate my vocab and never plan to let it.
December 26th, 2007 at 4:32 am
I don’t mind people being gay or lesbian but I do mind it when people who are gay talk to me about gay rights. It annoys me because they should have the same rights as us but they seem to think that they don’t. Yes, if you are gay you will get some public criticism, but people will always be like that. I am in 7th grade and they always have these dances called fun fridays at my school. I don’t think they’re fun because the only music they play is rap and country from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s (bad mix). I found an outlet in the bathroom and smuggled a stereo into there and all the 8th graders came in and said they were having a gay party. It was funny because I caught them on video with my cell and one of them took his shirt off and humped every one of us. That was my science teacher’s son. My teacher slapped him, and he got kicked out of school for a month for sexual harassment. And they called us gay for listening to Green Day? Not right in the head.
March 8th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I had “Fat fat fat!” chanted at me once, though considering that was from a drunken ned chick, it was hard to really take it terribly to heart.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:09 am
when i was in school, people teased me and made fun of me.. but it didn’t realy bother me much, they’d say “FAG!” i’d say “you called? , yes?, glad of you to notice, yea i am” and more like that..