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In reply to the discussion: how are they going to know?? how are these business owners, etc, going to know who is gay? [View all]LynneSin
(95,337 posts)And they turned out to be straight as could be.
We talk about how we have 'gaydar' and that gaydar is based on perceptions that are assumed if you're gay you must dress too neatly or talk too high pitched or have fussy mannerisms. Heck I had someone thought I was a lesbian because I drove a Suburu and had a mug with a rainbow on it (the mug was from the 2007 Dark Side of the Moon concert by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd). I mean according to gaydar Michael Sams should be straight because that's what manly men do - play football.
In the end there really isn't any stereotype out there that says - 'This person is gay' unless of course the person in question comes out says 'I'm Gay (lesbian, Tran, Bi, etc etc etc).
So in the end how do we really know anyone is gay? Which means the law in Arizona would be a giant fail since it would be up to the business owners to decide who is or isn't gay and clearly they is not 100% way of knowing who is gay unless the gay people wore a label that says 'yes I'm gay'. And we know how forcing a group of people in society worked out (aka Nazi Germany). If the Arizona law passed is that what they would have to rely on to ensure that only the gay people would be denied services.
In the end it's all bullshit. But since it seems the law isn't going to pass everyone will forget about it and go about their business and the people who passed these laws will be forgiven and it'll all be forgotten. That's the real bullshit what is happening.