My car is in the shop right now, so I have been driving my mom's van, meaning that I do not have my CD's with me. This morning I was flipping around the station's on the radio and I came across a radio show that was talking about terrible Valentine's Day gifts. They were talking about this awful shirt that the couple wears and when they are near each other, the shirt lights up...CHEESY! Well, during this show, the host was describing the shirts and he said that they were the "gayest thing ever." This immediately stopped my enjoyment of the show. It also made me realize that it is time to stop letting these things sit there and grow.
If we hear, see or experience something that is harmful or hateful towards a person or group of people, it is our job as advocates for mankind to speak up. I am tired of sitting and internalizing my frustration.
Of course there is a time and place for all things and you have to be careful about how and when you bring these things up. I emailed the show and let them know that I would not be listening to that show again because of the things said (little do they know I was not going to listen to that show again anyways).
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