Walk A Mile In My Shoes: Baggage Handler Homophobia Alert! PLS RT!!!

Utterly disgusted to find my luggage front and center on the @JetstarAirways luggage carousel looking like this. pic.twitter.com/ErU7LhRZDd
— Sleepysaurus Rex! (@aaronpp) October 13, 2013

A straight dad has tweeted and blogged about this new outrage.

As I dragged the case through the terminal, I looked back at the people I had passed and they too looked at me differently. My luggage was a scarlet letter.
I am a white heterosexual male. This trifecta of privilege means that I’m not routinely subjected to prejudice. But for a few minutes I got to walk in the shoes of a gay person in a public place. For no good reason I had had a slur marked over my luggage. I was degraded. I was shamed. I was humiliated...

Well, that sounds utterly convincing, I shall now make my Kate McCann *sadface*.
We - the gays - can not thank you enough for sharing our pain, straight dude.
Gaymedia and the usual gayhysterics went predictably mad!
No need to even try and check it.
Cause they have such a good record on falling for made-up stories about BAGGAGE HANDLER HOMOPHOBIA!
The "humiliated" gay couple there who cried that a dildo had been strapped to their suitcase in A CLEAR ACT OF HOMOPHOBIA were soon humiliated when it was shown to be so nonsensical they dropped the case.
Remember the oh-so proud mom of a gay kid who claimed to have witnessed HOMOPHOBIA! in the supermarket, but forgot to report it at the time, so just blogged about it instead?
She WENT VIRAL!
Then disappeared, when she was asked to prove it happened.
I could go on.
And on and on and on...

#boycottplanes

PS You may recall Buzzfeed's 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm was posted just two days go.
Satire - you are beyond fucked!

This could be true - there's 7 billion people in the world.
I guess a lot of them must get bored at work and have a sense of humour.
How anyone could find the above - if it actually happened - offensive is quite beyond me...
But hey groovy straight dad, for a few minutes you got to walk in the shoes of a gay person in a public place.
Wow!

"I am a white heterosexual male. This trifecta of privilege means..."

Oh, do fuck off.
If you factor in you being an insufferable guilt-ridden middle-class wanker that's a quinecta.
Probably.

The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm: Goes Viral, Ironically Causes Twitterstorm Etc Etc

Maybe a bit pointless posting this, such is the nature of the Twittersphere you'll all have been sent it endless times already today, but...
Oh, what a joy!
This satire of a Twitterstorm is generally applicable, but you may detect the closeness to the manufactured outrage last week over Tesco selling the Inflatable Gay Best Friend, a silly novelty item based on a patronising stereotype - and mistakenly listed as suitable for 3-4 year-olds.
The usual tedious gay hysterics over-reacted, and...
And as with Tom Phillips' brilliant piece for Buzzfeed here, the Twitterstorm grew and grew and grew, a celeb tweeted, someone started an e-petition, and someone started another pointless online petition, then it started trending, the media turned it into a story, someone boring called for a boycott, politicians jumped on the bandwagon and so on and so on and so on ad Twitter bloody nauseum...

As often happens with satire it was worth noting how many people could not see that it was their behaviour that was being satirised; smile and click RT.

And, as with any great satire, it was also making an important point, not just about these little outbreaks of mass hysteria, but also about how damaging these pink pearl-clutchers and pitchfork-wavers can be.

Anyway, just wanted to save this one for posterior.
Please bear it in mind the next time you get an "outraged" tweet or RT, and/or get asked to sign a silly e-petition about inflatable anti-gay Russian Nazi pasta dolls or whatever.

PS This was Fagburn's favourite, by the way...

PS Buzzfeed also compiled The 15 Best Reactions To Coming Out Day. 

Err, can anyone explain what number 12 is doing in there?

It seems a perfectly innocent tweet...