alex8 said:
Don't be so puerile and short-sighted. The very point is that it's exceptionally common to leave white people "unlabeled" and to only label "others", thereby constructing their very otherness. To specify whiteness is always the exception, with it generally being left as an unstated, 'normatized' condition.
Likewise, gay people are marked as "gay", while heterosexuals are generally unstated and unspecified... it's a means of constructing and maintaining "normality" as an absent centre or unspecified subject.
Lol, puerile and laid back happens to be a very good way to be
If everybody was puerile there would be no problems at all. We'd all happily make jokes about everybody elses differences and nobody would care. Are you saying your politically-correct world way is better? Where we all refer to each other as Comrades and everything is censored just in the off chance somebody gets offended?
Everybody normalises themselves. That is because everybody is normal to themselves. Racism and Homophobia are not those things. Racism and Homophobia are hatreds of different Races and different Sexualities. Refering to somebody who is black as black, is the truth
Just as you refering to me as White, is true
Only a touchy pain in the arse would care, because it is true. Same thing with Gay people, they are Gay, just as Straight people are straight. If a Gay person refers to a Straight person as Straight, what is the harm in that? To the Gay person, the Straight person is different and Straight does not go without saying, unlike if you're Straight, whereby Straight goes without saying and Gay is a speciality.
Racism does not only go one way. It is easy for Minorities to say oh no that Majority they're bastards they're refering to us as whatever. Minorities do it to, everybody does it. It is how our brains work. Personally, unless I am describing somebody for pointing out purposes I do not refer to a colour or nationality
What's the point? Same with Gay people. But if somebody feels they have to... who cares?
Is it sexism to refer to a Girl, as a Girl? Or a Guy, as a Guy? If a person is contented enough with what they are, they understand what they are, it doesn't matter, because they will realise, that it is the truth. Let the girls be touchy pains in the arses, not everybody has to be.