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I don't really want to respond to this wall of text. I can't even bring myself to read the the whole thing. Except I want to point out that I don't care what anybody on here thinks about my sexuality. I really don't. How could I? None of this is about -me- because nobody on here knows the slightest bit of detail about my personal life.

I just had a thought that I (and evidently at least one other person) found humorous, and I felt a desire to share, nothing nobler or less noble. I was utterly shocked that it prompted a flame war that came to the attention of the mods.

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Then I hope you learned something: Stop telling homophobic jokes if you have a problem with people thinking you're gay, or even if you don't. Got it? Have any problem with that?

i) Nothing about the joke is homophobic.

ii) I learned something, but perhaps not what you wish I'd learned.

iii) I don't care if you think I'm gay, partly because I wouldn't care if I were gay or not, but mostly because I don't care what strangers think at all.

iv) My jokes are no more or less funny depending on the sexuality of the teller.

v) I generally don't have any problem with anything anybody thinks or says, though political winds in other countries are starting to concern me a bit, Canada's pronoun law for example. So long as we're only talking and nobody's going to jail for wrongspeak, I think there's no problem.

1) That's not what most people thought, which is why you were immediately downvoted, flagged, and rightfully called an ass.

2) Stop making homophobic jokes and then pretending they're not homophobic, if you don't want people to know you're an asshole.

3) You've already revealed a lot of personal information about yourself and your character in this discussion and your comment history.

So do you agree to stop telling homophobic jokes, or not? If not, then why do you insist on violating the rules of this community by telling them?

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