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Originally Posted by jbrat2219
I think it's more like, 'I'm proud of who I am' rather than proud in the sense that you accomplished something. When you live in a society that forces shame on you for something so natural, of course you're going to be proud to be gay. When society changes maybe your argument would have more merit but just to say "accept it and move on" is a little insensitive, don't you think?
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Personally, I see both sides. I was never one to consider someone special just because they were a minority of some sort. And being gay is just another one of those.
It's just like when my friends are being all crazy feminist and I'm just like "yeah uh huh sure." Then they tell me I'm helping sexism or something...
But anyways, I'm not really one to rain on people's parades...lol Of course we shouldn't have a need for the pride...but I think the harm from having it is less than if we didn't...so...you know, the world isn't perfect. We can't have everything just so.
If having gay pride parades means that maybe our society accepts homosexuality even just a tiny bit more...I'll take that over nothing lol And if it means that people feel more accepted and proud about who they are...why would I take that away from them?
The day people stop being proud for this kind of thing, is the day that people also stop being proud of the other little societal divisions, like ethnicity and gender, class, etc. We're not going to be there any time soon.