LGBT+ Discussion

[SW11_Saint]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

what's up hun?

Homophobic gammons mainly… 

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, SW11_Saint said:

Homophobic gammons mainly… 

What do you want the mods to do?

[SW11_Saint]

16 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

What do you want the mods to do?

Moderate maybe? 

[AlexLaw76]

34 minutes ago, SW11_Saint said:

Moderate maybe? 

Moderate what? Stuff YOU don’t like?

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, SW11_Saint said:

Homophobic gammons mainly… 

can you quote the homophobic posts please? 

[Sir Ralph]

The point is that Board is not representative of the fan base. The Club have decided in their wisdom to obtain advice from a number of people who proportionately don’t reflect our fans.

Edited 11 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[SW11_Saint]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

can you quote the homophobic posts please? 

You can see them for yourself - you even wrote a couple - snide homophonic comments wrapped up no doubt as ‘harmless laddish banter’. The lower half of the page before this is full of them. Insinuations that ‘the gay lot’ can’t be managers, don’t know anything about football etc. 

Pretty depressing stuff given we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century… 

[whelk]

19 minutes ago, SW11_Saint said:

You can see them for yourself - you even wrote a couple - snide homophonic comments wrapped up no doubt as ‘harmless laddish banter’. The lower half of the page before this is full of them. Insinuations that ‘the gay lot’ can’t be managers, don’t know anything about football etc. 

Pretty depressing stuff given we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century… 

You know if you’re not a lad wrapped up in Stone Island uniform you can’t be a real football fan?

[whelk]

I can imagine Turkish’s joy when he realises he can change the Trainline app. Decisions, decisions 

Edited 10 hours ago by whelk

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, SW11_Saint said:

You can see them for yourself - you even wrote a couple - snide homophonic comments wrapped up no doubt as ‘harmless laddish banter’. The lower half of the page before this is full of them. Insinuations that ‘the gay lot’ can’t be managers, don’t know anything about football etc. 

Pretty depressing stuff given we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century… 

Nothing against it at all but is this you “coming” out ?

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, SW11_Saint said:

You can see them for yourself - you even wrote a couple - snide homophonic comments wrapped up no doubt as ‘harmless laddish banter’. The lower half of the page before this is full of them. Insinuations that ‘the gay lot’ can’t be managers, don’t know anything about football etc. 

Pretty depressing stuff given we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century… 

Genuinely I missed those bits. Which posts specifically? I saw one moved from a different thread about ending up with an lgbtq manager which I thought was a bit of an odd comment. I expect it's because some of the people on the fan board appear to be lgbtq themselves or have stated that their priorities are that sort of thing. 

[whelk]

27 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Nothing against it at all but is this you “coming” out ?

You asking for a friend?

[SW11_Saint]

1 hour ago, tdmickey3 said:

Nothing against it at all but is this you “coming” out ?

Erm no… and it would be a pretty odd way of doing so.

Not that it should matter, but I am straight and married to a woman. I have close family and friends who are gay though. I’ve found a lot of the content on this thread which - from the title at least - you’d expect to be supportive for/to LGBTQ+ fans - a rather odd, if not troubling read. 

Edited 8 hours ago by SW11_Saint

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, SW11_Saint said:

Erm no… and it would be a pretty odd way of doing so.

Not that it should matter, but I am straight and married to a woman. I have close family and friends who are gay though. I’ve found a lot of the content on this thread which - from the title at least - you’d expect to be supportive for/to LGBTQ+ fans - a rather odd, if not troubling read. 

So do I and I find nothing on it remotely troubling. 

[hypochondriac]

2 hours ago, SW11_Saint said:

Erm no… and it would be a pretty odd way of doing so.

Not that it should matter, but I am straight and married to a woman. I have close family and friends who are gay though. I’ve found a lot of the content on this thread which - from the title at least - you’d expect to be supportive for/to LGBTQ+ fans - a rather odd, if not troubling read. 

I think you need to be more specific. "a lot of the content" makes it difficult to understand what you're saying.

[Turkish]

15 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I think you need to be more specific. "a lot of the content" makes it difficult to understand what you're saying.

I’d also like to know which specific posts. There have been some bold accusations with some content labelled as troubling and depressing so it would be interesting to see which posts these were as well as understanding why they’d cause such a strong reaction 

Edited 4 hours ago by Turkish

[skintsaint]

3 hours ago, SW11_Saint said:

I have close family and friends who are gay though.

Not a surprise, 1 in 10 are apparently gay these days.........seems a bit high doesn't it?

 

[Sir Ralph]

I think you’re being slightly sensitive. I’m being respectful when saying this but maybe you spend your time in an environment which is more sensitive in respect of these matters. 

People are frustrated with institutions such as SFC which over prioritise certain groups and ask them to represent the fans. It’s fine for certain groups to represent fans but it should be on a proportionate basis. Some of the comments may not be to your liking but to say that some of the reading is troubling is wide of the mark, in my opinion.

Edited 4 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[Holmes_and_Watson]

The point I took from some of the posts was how representative of the actual support is FAB? If there are people on the FAB representing some groups, and not others, why those groups, and not others? is there a disproportionate impact on decision making/ initiatives?

Now, for all I know FAB don't actually represent specific groups, despite what the bios for some suggest. It could be that FAB are pretty toothless and/or this is just a random selection of those who were interested. There's also no reason why Initiatives supporting some groups wouldn't benefit the wider fanbase.