If you want to depress yourself on this rainy Friday, we'd suggest you visit the new website, nohomophobes.com, which chronicles the horrific and prolific use of homophobia that exists on social media websites.
A barrage of casually cruel tweets rushes swiftly by each moment on the site, which was created by the University of Alberta's Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS). According to the press release, the website is supposed to serve as a "social mirror" that captures and documents the amount of homophobic language that occurs every moment of every day. Since July 5, "Faggot" has been tweeted 2.4 million times, "So Gay" 800,000 times, "No Homo" 800,000 times and "Dyke" 300,000 times.
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At first I thought, in my Pollyanna-ish way, that perhaps people were affectionately tweeting each other. After all, my queer friends and I call each other fags all the time (admittedly not on Twitter, but still). Or maybe people were proudly exclaiming their identities, in a sort of affirmative, Stewart Smalley way: "I am dyke, hear me roar!" Alas, that doesn't appear to be the case. Here's a sample from literally 30 seconds in real time:
This person puts the homo back in "doesn't know how to correctly use homonyms."RT @_charlieharris_: @laurencarp96 good job! Hells the only place your going dyke
-- lauren carpenter ✝ (@laurencarp96) September 28, 2012
Homophobia disguised as chivarly, how gallant. Also, gay men don't need to buy ladies drinks. Have you been to a gay bar? There are two-for-one drink specials EVERY DAY.RT @famouslyjuicy: RT @_itzrozay: I'd never ask a woman for a drink. That's that faggot shitz<-------
--Punjab A. Christ (@_ItzRozay) September 28, 2012
Not a morning person? Blame it on the gays. We do make the sun rise and set."@rhianne13xx: Just remembered I've got to get up at half 6 tomorrow morning #fuck #earlymornings" stop being so gay!
-- Siân Williams (@sian_williamsxo) September 28, 2012
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