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Originally posted by Javan
Its not just that her underweight tho. He looks ill and twice age. I ruled out cancer because he has a full set of hair, and someone his age with cancer would have already endured chemotherapy... Well I would have thought. But even if it for the "plain fact that it's a very serious assumption to vocalize", it hasn't stopped others from making assumptions about over illness such as cancer, and nobody bats an eyelid. But seeing as you are all gay, I could understand why the word makes you feel some type of way . I'm not sorry for making the comment but I see where this all coming from. And I'll try and to not do it again.
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It shouldn't be hard to understand just because you're straight. Imagine if someone was Jewish and told you their grandfather was dead, would you just be like "oh did he die in Holocaust?" Or in a less extreme example, if you saw an overweight woman and said "oh are you pregnant?" as if those are defining characteristics of being Jewish or female.
The fact that you see a gay man who looks like he may be sick (but could've just been really old, I didn't realize he had cancer either) and automatically link that with him having AIDs is disturbing and disrespectful. Learn not to reduce groups like that.
@ a mod closing the missing girl thread
