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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm noticing more and more, especially with the "baby gays", this mentality of using queerness or alphabet identity as some kind of shield or dodge of bad behavior. I've had people screw up, then claim I can't be upset because they're part of a marginalized group, and even had someone tell me that I can't be upset with them because it would be anti-gay.  :roll: Maybe I'm just an old fag, but it's really offputting to hear a mostly-younger generation so caught up in their identifiers that they forget their base humanity and agency. Queer or not, you can choose to be decent or a jerk. Being queer isn't a defense for crappy behavior. If anything, you make the rest of us look bad.

Listen... No matter how you personally identify, your integrity is your integrity (or lack thereof). If you do a crappy thing, it's not because you're gay. By the same hand, being alphabet doesn't act as some kind of immunity for the jerkish thing you did. Everybody is capable of being a jerk, and everyone is responsible for their behavior and choices. Your pronouns don't matter nearly as much as your dignity. Do better. Be better. 
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This isn't an "alphabet soup" thing -- it's a more general issue with Generation Z. While most younger generations go through this, there's a huge element of them lacking any humility, not knowing what they don't know and being frequently wrong and rarely in doubt. The main difference from them and previous generations in their youth is they're more belligerent about it.[/quote]

God, grant me the confidence of a mediocre... Gen Zed?  :lol: Probably, though. This tracks.[/quote]

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