FCK H8

So there's this new YouTube video that's gone viral called FCK H8. It's basically the new radical queer rights PR campaign and it's gained a lot support. I personally don't get it. Well, I kinda get it. We don't like hate...it's stupid...f*&# hate. I just don't get what it's supposed to accomplish. I guess if it's supposed to be a motivator among the community, it can serve some purpose. But am I supposed to believe that this is going to become a movement?

I've never been a huge fan of profanity and to have kids dropping the f-bomb left and right makes us look like the jerks. I remember when I went to NYC Wedding March a couple weeks ago and of course there was a bunch of chanting. Most of them were the boring standby's of "What do we want?"..."Marriage equality"..."When do we want it?"..."Now." So needless to say I welcomed more creativity when it came to chanting. I threw in a "Hey-hey, ho-ho, homophobia has got to go" and some other people did a few new ones too. Then one woman started, "We're here, we're queer, we're fabulous, don't f*&# with us." Reallyyy??? Did we really have to go there? I mean there are kids and families watching us. Is that really the image we want to portray?

I understand passion and dedication and that feeling of not backing down and standing up for ourselves. But using profanity does not help our cause. First off, it's not original. People say eff this and eff that whenever something bothers them. It serves no other purpose than to shock people. It can also turn people off to our cause pretty quickly. Someone who might've been open to hearing us out before could choose not to because they don't want to be attacked by a slurry of curse words. Reacting with profanity closes the lines of communication and just further alienates the two sides. We can't get anywhere if we don't allow ourselves to have open and honest discussions. C'mon folks, get it together!



P.S. We couldn't get better shirts? Really? Those shirts like they're made with the cheapest fabric ever, ready to come apart in the spin cycle.