I think we need to start calling people out for saying offensive shit again.
I am done listening to people joke about how being sensitive and caring is ‘gay’, or saying someone has feminine characteristics is a bad thing. I am done listening to people joke about rape and sexual assault. I am done listening to people completely freak out and hate on a religion that is not their own.
I personally thought we were done with that. I thought maybe it had been established that those jokes about sexuality, gender, or crime were very unacceptable- and yet, I have not stopped hearing them. Maybe it is just because I live in a small, close-minded town, but that still does not make it acceptable.
I want to know what happened to the normalization of calling people out on that kind of demeaning, hate speech. It isn’t okay. It isn’t just a joke. I’m not trying to hate on the people that do this because I don’t want to reciprocate your negativity, but you need to realize that what you are ‘joking’ about is not appropriate and you need to start respecting those topics and the groups of people surrounding them.
Just love and respect people, please. I don’t care if you don’t agree with them or their beliefs, just respect it. And if you know someone who needs to be confronted about respect for gender, sexuality, race, religion, etc. send them this -like seven times and just spam their DMs because this stuff is important to talk about.
xoxxo, isabell
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