We all know the story; we
have probably all been there at one time or another. You pop onto facebook
while you are at your mates place to check the details of an event or do some
casual stalking. Next thing you know you have triple the amount of notifications
and a status up date along the lines of this:
“I am a gay man and I
love it in my bum! Please put your homosexual penis in my homosexual anus.”
Or, for the ladies out
there:
“Hey everyone, just
letting you all know that I am coming out of the closet! That's right guys, I’m
a bonified rug muncher; someone better be getting me a pair of Doc Martins for
Christmas!”
Or even something like
this:
Oh, stop! My stomach! I’m
laughing more than the stoned gamer from Laddergoat! Being gay or transgender is
the funniest joke of all time!
Oh, no, wait a
minute...it’s a lived reality for thousands around the world who all experience
varying degrees of discrimination, hatred, inequality and violence. Silly me.
Congratulations frapist;
you have just contributed to the phenomena known as online bullying. Three guesses as to who the victim is? (Handy hint: not your hetero, cis-sexual friend).
Your frape isn’t funny
and it isn’t innocent. You are contributing to a social environment that frames
lesbian, gay and transgender people as freaky ‘others’. Something that must be
laughed at in order to conceal our all engulfing fear of what we do not
understand. Besides, the joke is old. Originality is key to good comedy, and
LGBT bashing has been done. Either get some new material (preferably not rooted
in fear and ignorance) or do us all a huge favour and just log the fuck out of
your friend’s facebook.
