Do you think corporations need to do more to stop homophobia?
Are corporations allowing too much intolerance of LGBTQ people?
shareAny LGBTQ will less self-entitlement and intolerance to anyone who doesn't accept whatever they say, or represent? And LG have nothing to do with the rest of the cute abbreviated-letters, which is very disrespectful of homosexuals.
Accept that "phobias" from different segments of society will always exist---it did thousands of years ago, and will thousands from now. Toughen up, and not expect the world to change for "moi"; it's not realistic, whether it's fair or not. Life is not fair for many people.
So you are saying: Do nothing and stop worrying?
Of course society changes and can change! There are good people, who fight for the right things: Women Rights, Equal rights and LGBT Rights as well.
Just look a few years or decades or a hundred years back. People and what they except and tolerate changed.
There will always be "phobic" idiots. And it is the job of the rest of the society to make them feel bad and wrong.
Imagine a mixed race couple a hundred years ago or a gay couple holding hands 30 years ago and how it is viewed now.
It gets better. It is everyones job.
Societal change and tolerance is not the same as innate-feelings towards a particular characteristic. We thought we had racial tensions wrapped up after Marlin Luther King, and segregation and slavery was outlawed, but racial tensions are still dividing society. The same could be said for abortion.
Change is not calculus that society can always just program. People have inherent emotions about what's acceptable and desirable, even those who pride themselves on being so progressive and cool. I dont' believe everything starts from the outside-in, but the inside-out. Nobody wants the mentally-ill to be chastised and mistreated either, but it's easier said than done.
And gay couples holding hands is still not viewed as desirable by a large segment of society--but they just don't say anything. And be sure the holding-hands couple are in the safe part of town.
By the way, some people have enough ongoing problems which they struggle with than schooling phobic-people on LGBTQ, who do have their rights. A "right" is a question of law, not a personal reaction.
The only things that have changed about how people view and treat members of the LGBT community is due to passing laws that FORCE people to accept homosexuals and not say a word to them without getting punished, indoctrinating young, impressionable children into siding with them, over half of society becoming apathetic about the whole thing, and propaganda splattered all over mainstream tv, whose audience shrinks more and more each year.
Trying to change people's hearts and minds when they have grown up with the truth for years, is about as easy as holding back a hurricane with a mop. A large part of American society still feels the same way about the LGBT community as they did 30 years ago, we're just now not allowed to say anything about it. Best we can do these days is avoid them and avoid the subject altogether, and keep teaching our kids the truth outside of the influence of school or mainstream society.
They think what they perceive as discrimination can be modified by saying "no". Behavioral traits toward another is being confused with violating equal rights.
Clearly there are no laws FORCING you to accept homosexuals, you would’ve been arrested by now. Most people are apathetic about the whole thing because most people understand that other people’s sexual preferences don’t affect them in the slightest. No one is asking you to change your extremely intolerant views, they are just asking you to mind your business because their sexuality has nothing to do with you.
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