To be utterly shocked that someone in their mid 30's can hold such sexist and homophobic views.

[Needsmorecake]

Just got back from a date which my instincts told me not to go on....

Wish i had listened to myself as ive just had a coffee with the most sexist and homophobic arse i have ever met.

He started a rant about ' poofs' which he didnt stop when i said i had lots of gay friends, nor when i tried to change the subject.

His sexism left me open mouthed.

Im dumbfounded that someone who is 34 can hold such views.

Or just hiding their sexuality, like a surprising number of prominent anti-gay campaigners.

(anyone want to take bets on when the first of the Westboro Baptists gets caught in a toilet/at a sauna/in a hotel with a male escort?)

People feel uncomfortable by something that falls outside of their set of norms. I have a friend who is very overweight - morbidly obese. She is happy. Very happy. But she is viewed with a certain amount of fascination because of this - now you can be fat and happy is a mystery, it seems.

Try being a woman of a certain age who is single - gay or straight. The assumption is that everybody wants a spouse the opposite sex to them, children, careers, and so on. If you do not, you will be questioned.

I have a few non-conventional tendencies myself that I keep to myself. I don't want converting.

Holy fucking fuck, the point is that "tolerance" is an opinion-agnostic concept that implies the possibility of disapproval, so when someone applies the word to directly mean people who approve of something, they are being an illiterate twat or wilfully dishonest.

It is a point of misuse of the English language, not a comment on anything else and it was really not that hard to understand. I despair for the world we live in, I really do.

I mean nice racists? WTAF.