APE IN A CAPE: When Someone Says...

APE IN A CAPE: When Someone Says...:

willowfish:

mercuryandmoonlight:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

shawnschulte:

idstudios:

gailsimone:

"I have black friends," or, "I have gay friends," or, "most of my friends are women,"…

…and you just know the next thing they say is going to be hideous and bigoted…

…don't you just want to punch something?

GOD YES.

This happens more…

I've just learned to stop listening whenever some bigoted asshole tries to use a phrase like this to claim that they're not bigoted

I know I won't be missing out on anything of worth by ignoring every word they say

Sorry but sometimes a person has a legitimate reason for saying "I have gay/black/etc friends". For example, a girl I knew who was not physically attracted to black men was called racist by a black man who wanted to date her and she said she was sorry but she was not attracted to him and he accused her of racism. She pointed out the fact that her best friend is black and that she just wasn't attracted to him. How is what she said bigoted? Should we be guilted into dating someone we are not attracted to simply because they belong to an oppressed minority?

Sorry, anyway….

My brain just snapped in a hundred directions.