Homophobia is ingrained in straight culture

I was out last night on the popular club strip here in my city. Its the one place where the number of bars is nearly equal to the number of buildings. While my time on the street was brief (only hopped 2 bars), I heard a lot of homophobic slurs being tossed around.

Young men spilling out of bars, engaging other males with their puffy chests and posturing, and calling one another "F _ _ _ _ _ _ faggots". My straight friend and I passed by these two very angry, roided Ed Hardy looking douche bags. We were smiling and chatting, they were looking as though they were trying to take up as much space on the sidewalk as possible.

As we passed them, they got no more than 5 feet behind us and the biggest, constipated, dumbest looking one angrily uttered that popular phrase "F _ _ _ _ _ _ faggots", and honestly, as much as I frown upon violence towards others, I wanted to do to him what we later witnessed in a bar brawl. Some guy was knocked to the ground in a scrap, and some loser kicked him in the face. I just wanted to smash into him with my boot and watch him beg and bleed.

While he easily outweighed me by 60LBS (and my friend by maybe 20LBS) and probably thought he could mop the floor with us, my friend is actually a trained kick boxer and is very strong for his size. I did not feel threatened, but I did feel like this losers unwarranted verbal attack required some fist to mouth action to remedy. I guess I'm still angry about it and just have to get it out. It's been a while since I was called that word, and I'm at a point in my life where I don't feel like turning the other cheek. I feel like busting them open and seeing the true measure of these 'men' that think they're so tough and so straight.

It just seems like I've been constantly bombarded with homophobia my whole life, be it directly or indirectly, and it hasn't gotten better, and it always the same old story. Some self important, bloated, sexually frustrated, windbag thinks he can assert is manhood by randomly verbally attacking someone with sexuality. Even being on the fringe of a conversation where someone is being insulted in such a way makes me angry. Its like little boys, even if they are never taught how to throw a proper punch, they're educated in homophobia.

 

Sorry if the title of the thread is a little misleading. I just can't be bothered to research any examples beyond my experience last night.

 

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