Being from the South, I don't think it my job to humiliate anyone unprovoked. If someone chooses to attack gays in my presence, then they will incur a rebuke with a rebuttal.
At work earlier this week, an engineer commented that "if you were noticing the guy in the ad, then something is WRONG!" I leaned out of my cubicle at the overheard conversation and said loudly, "I RESEMBLE that remark!" They got the point, but it wasn't my job to be obnoxious about their heteronormative comment. I reminded them that I am attracted to men, and therefore, it isn't wrong, but I didn't view them as my enemies. He was unwittingly wrong. I reminded them with humor. It isn't necessary to make an enemy where there is not one.
If someone had said it in a serious tone, I would have adopted one in reply.
I need to convert them. Humiliation won't accomplish that.
Nice goes a loooong way to earning respect. Ugly is not needed often in my life.
As for sociopaths, unfortunately, they can be anywhere. Religion doesn't have any corner on that market.
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i'm not talking about jesus any more.
i can see whats going on and i guess i can't have it both ways.
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