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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
this is an interesting point you have brought up:
seems like 'queer nation', gay pride and other homosexual organizations are working against this. everything I read about homosexuality is "I'm special, look at me" personally I don't believe pride is a personal label. I am proud of my daughter accomplishments, I am grateful for mine.
to me gay pride is a complete self aggrandizing statement with no validity. my feeling is if you are so grateful for being gay why must you always try and prove it to me? I have no dog in the fight... if it's that great go enjoy it in the privacy of your home
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I agree completely. I never understood ethnic pride. It seems like many different ethnic groups have pride parades, pride days etc. There are only a few things in this life you can't control. Which vagina you come out of is one of them. Like you say, if you are happy you are gay, or white, or black or Italian or Asian or whatever great. I'm not sure why there is a need to hold a parade and tell me about it.
It is a big hangup for some people. My neighbor hates the idea of any interracial couples. She doesn't even like that I am dating an Asian girl. Her argument is that children of mix race couples will have no "cultural base." When she told me this I almost started laughing. I said, "My girlfriend is half Japanese, most of my ethnic background is Swedish. The kid will be a viking samurai. That sounds like a pretty good cultural base to me."