In Response to Andrew Sullivan’s What are Homosexuals For?
With the modern world’s hyper-sensitive awareness of race and gender and religion and sexual preferences and politics and, well, everything, making a few misplaced generalizations is inevitable. Although stereotyping can be false and misleading, it does not have the same implications that actively discriminating has.
“All stereotypes turn out to be true… All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they’re stereotypes because they’re true.” (David Cronenberg) In What are Homosexuals For?, Andrew Sullivan mentions that making generalizations about homosexuals is synonymous with being homophobic. Maybe today’s society is too sensitive to acknowledge the validity of most stereotypes, but the truth is that they all had to start somewhere—assumptions and generalizations cannot simply materialize out of thin air. It certainly is not true that all gay men love to go shopping,......
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