A few points I had thought were obvious; thank you for correcting me
Cellar Door said:
Many straight people find the idea of gay pairings and gay sex an uncomfortable topic - simple as that.
Ah. Yes. Civil rights are all about pride, aren't they?
Why are they not allowed to feel this way, and why must the majority be constantly treading on eggshells to avoid causing offence to a minority?
You're mixing issues of a sort.
Why are they not allowed to feel this way? Who says they're not?
Why must the majority be constantly treading on eggshells to avoid causing offense to a minority? Who says they do?
Many people, including many
straight people, don't equate decency to walking on eggshells. Fuck, have you looked around and seen how easy it is to offend the majority? Simply existing is often sufficient.
Equally, I don't think that most people are against consenting adults doing pretty much what they like in their own homes - but gay pride parades, gay sex all over programmes like Hollyoaks or films like Brokeback Mountain?
Well, think of it this way: I don't see all that many black power or black pride parades anymore. As a subgroup normalizes, the expression of pride as a counterpoint to oppression diminishes.
British soap operas? Hell, dude, I think the American celebration of lying, scheming, hateful, vengeful heterosexuals is pretty stupid fare, too. Thing is, there's an audience out there somewhere. Take it up with people who watch shitty television.
Or are you complaining that shitty television includes homosexuals? You know, as if having cheap hetero-sex all over televisions is any better?
And, of course, you too can do what I do:
I do not watch soap operas.
And as to
Brokeback Mountain? Who the hell forced you to go see it? I mean,
Baby Mama shouldn't have been made. Easy solution:
Don't go see the fucking movie. Something unfortunate, like the time my brother and I suffered through
Patch Adams against our better sensibilities? Yeah, well, if I really have a problem with that, I can take it up with my mother.
In what way is consistency lacking?
Your assertion—
"... you can't compare how a minority is treated to how the majority treats itself - it's illogical."
—seems to make quite clearly the point that it is somehow unfair or improper to compare a social group's treatment of a minority against its own standards of decency.
I reject that proposition, as it advocates hypocrisy. Think about it in functional terms.