I live near a popular mall in Dartmouth and frequently need things from the local building supplies store. I was leaving through the overhead door section with some trim, A girl about my age rang through the trim and I was half listening to the older guys in the background bantering on, and happened to hear them gay bashing. Now, as I stated, normally I just roll my eyes smile and keep on walking, but one of their statements stuck out “…those dykes, never going to get anywhere in God’s world, no place in heaven…” REALLY? Do you think your “God” cares more about the lesbians, or about how much of an asswipe you are? And after bashing gays, you go on to say how good your wife is in bed, how often you have sex? All the gory details included.
A) Not appropriate work conduct at all
B) Gross
C) Who cares who you fuck as long as youre happy
I’m a gay chick so maybe I’m biased when it comes to my opinions on God, heaven or whatever else, but I don’t think it really matters who you love as long as it works and you’re happy. Love is about respect, and to me, respect is not sharing all the dirty things your wife does to you with your work ‘buddies’. I’m sure she wouldn’t be all that willing to please you if she knew how the rest of your work circle could play back to her what you did in bed last night.
I felt bad for the poor girl who was ringing through my things, looking at me apologetically, while the men continued their banter. Makes you want to take a shower. —Human…decency?
This article appears in Feb 3-9, 2011.
What do you expect from a bunch of guys who’d use the words ‘God’ & ‘Heaven’ in relation to someone’s sexual orientation? Ignore those flapping arseholes.
…or do what i do, point at them and make that invasion of the body snatcher’s screeing sound…loud is fun
so did you actually say anything or did you just continue to keep your mouth shut?
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/cheep…
wait now.. were these employees?
Make a complaint to management. And to the better business bureau.
Ya, it’s totally unprofessional, and just tell the managers if they want your business, they’ll train their employees better. And I’m sure their coworkers would appreciate it too.
Any man who paints a picture in his buddies head about his wife in bed…is an absolute pig and obviously suffers from insecurities. When you love someone and are married to them…you would never want someone else thinking of them “that way”. These guys sound like awful individuals. If they work there…please call and let their boss know.
Also: what TTFN said.
Agreed, totally unprofessional, call the home office and complain. Suggest that they SHARP train their employees.
I’m with the OP on this. If I were her, I would have asked, “Excuse me – you ever been beaten up by a ‘dyke’ before?” THen when they’re stunned, pay for the purchase and flash them some boobies. Walk out all cool n stuff.
If they were employees, complain, completely unacceptable.
If not, free speech man. If you believe in it you have to be willing to tolerate and protect even the most heinous opinions. I know it’s easier to want to just force them to shut up, but if it’s not hate speech, which this wasn’t, you can’t legally. So instead have your own arsenal of well thought out and articulate counter arguments so that you can exercise your free speech by verbally putting these bastards in their place if you feel inclined to do so.
and did you call, or even talk to company manager/owner/whatever o.p.? you should have done one or all of those. you have to take a stand sometime, so why not right there. you could have just dropped the stuff, and walked over, and stated that no, you will not buy anything from a company that has homophobic employees.
either that, or get the gay community together, launch a walk thru, with the brightest apparel that you can find, so they know who and what you are. then go to the head man there and protest in strong voices that these dolts are making slurs to you and your kind. and don’t take that last couple of words the wrong way.
Eww. I have some girlfriends who talk about how good their man is in bed, blah blah blah what they do and how they do it. I do realize it’s bragging but it’s just disrespectful to your partner. At least I think so. Those guys sound like pigs! Send in a complaint.
A dime a dozen OP. A phone call would be in order….just remind the manager that you’ve already begun telling people how the staff are at that location as it will surely help business for the home supply store in Dartmouth Crossing. Leave it to us DINKs and our disposable income 🙂
Dink? SUV?
It all makes sense.
OP here,
In my experience(s) with people of this sort, (and they were employees,) the best approach is to just laugh to your self smile and keep on going because they think they walk on the side of the fence with the greener grass. I’m very comfortable in my own skin, but seeing the poor girl at the check out looking like her ears were burning, she must hear it all the time from the bunch of jerks, broke my heart a bit.
Yes I will be writing a letter, or making a phone call, to whatever sort of management I can because its just not acceptable at all in any workplace to be subject to any kind of banter of this variety at any time.
straight, gay, bi, queer or absolutely fucked in the head, no one deserves to have to hear that kind of shit come out of their co-workers mouths. Pick up your socks and act like a decent person on the job then go home and be who you wanna be, ’cause to each they’re own, with respect to others in a community environment, really.
…just remember one thing…men who make homophobic remarks are USUALLY gay themselves or have queer tendencies and try to rationalize their hated by belittling gay or lesbians…it’s sad to watch as any normal male can see how truly gay they really are!..p[lease grow the fuck up,except yourself as gay and become a better human!!!!
And sometimes a bigot is just a cigar.
halifaxmentor, while that is a common way to conceptualize pissing them off in the worst way you could know how…. it’s bullshit.
and why is it only men???
I’m sad I wasted half the time I did reading to and responding to your idiotic comment.