Why do we have Pride? - Lemmy.World

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I am 51, bi, and to this day I am not comfortable discussing my sexuality. I don’t think young people understand how different things are now when compared to just fifteen years ago.

So you remember when the worst insult you could call a man was “F@g.” I do. Not idiot, or moron, or dumbass. “F@g.”

That’s still burned into my brain. I don’t say it, but I’m angry, it’s right there on the tip of my tongue.

Queerphobia is still baked into our language. These days it’s all the rage to call people “narcissist” as an insult. Narcissus the Greek guy was put to death by the gods for not dating anyone. The word is aphobic.

The story is that he was so vain that he fell in love with, or was so horny for, his own reflection that he died.

Some versions have him starving to death because looking at himself was a higher priority that eating, others have him kill himself because he couldn’t marry/fuck himself. Nothing to do with him “not dating anyone”.

I think he was a teen in the story, but since no one was fucking, I am not so sure it was pedophillic

Nemesis cursed him to fall in love with his reflection in answer to the prayers of a spurned suitor