The Unimportance of Being Earnest

Irony is never one of my strong suits, sorry Mr. Wilde.

Perhaps a newer reference can set the tone for this discussion and my re-entry into the blogosphere: "Why so serious?"

I've been reading a lot of things on the internet about serious subjects lately. Rape culture, transgender dissension, homophobia, sexism and hate against feminists. People getting attacked for making comments wanting equal rights, and others, who might genuinely not think they are saying anything wrong and just need education, receiving hateful comments from the side who apparently are the forward thinkers.

I don't get it really.

I've always had a problem with the way people go about things when they want their voice to be heard, sometimes. The people against homosexuals protest and make hateful comments, such as the age old "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" schtick, but then the people, who may not even necessarily be homosexual themselves yet proclaim to be forward thinkers, make hateful comments against those protesters choice in religion.

Not everyone is like this, I'm not blind, but as with anything on the internet, the more vocal ones are generally the ones who are guilty of this.

Did no one ever learn the moral of taking the high road, "turning the other cheek" as it were? Are these people so blinded by their rage against someone who has different beliefs that they just can't help the comments they make?

That seems ironic, isn't it? (I really can't tell)

Both sides just need to breathe and maybe think about what they're saying. Does everything need to be taken so gravely? Or at least not so seriously that it makes you angry enough to become like what you are so upset over.

I think dialogue is much better than yelling. And if the haters and fools just keep yelling, just laugh it off, be the bigger person and in the end intelligence will prevail. It may take longer, but force-feeding equality isn't the way is it?

I'm not saying that it wouldn't have been a bajillion times better if slavery never existed, or female equality was never in question, or people were allowed to love whomever they love from the beginning, but a lesson is never learned by hitting someone over the head with it, or on the religion side of the coin "Bible thumping" never works. (Unless brain washing is your game)

So, please, everyone, the so called forward thinkers and the religious people alike, breathe and talk. There is never a need to be that serious about something.

But, unlike my quote above, perhaps the Joker from the Batman movies isn't the best role model.

Maybe that's the irony?