I don't think it's people feeling threatened, I think it's people looking for someone who is alone and looks like a target of a random act of "drive-by bullying the weak person". I'm not even sure it's gay-bashing, since today's teenage vernacular seems to put the word "faggot" into the same stack as "nerd" (in the 60's and early 70's), "f*ckhead", or any number of just plain ole idiotic cuss words that mean nothing except "I am going to say something that, if said to me, would be a reason for me to act violent towards you. yet I will run away before you can do anything about it. Aren't I a cool kid? I feel so powerful." The fact that they actually got someone of an alternaterate sexuality is just a chance.
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Date: 2012-02-29 03:27 pm (UTC)