Quote:Originally posted by giova65@May 22 2012, 11:28 PM

said a story how i kno someone (my dad) when he was working as a mailman in gay village, a guy who was very feminin got too close to him and said smtng like ohh look how pretty the mailman is, and my dad was 18 and ignorant so he popped the guy in the face and knocked him out
they all said it was wrong and stuff (didnt tell them it was my dad) so i told them my opinion on how i have seen gay people cross the line and touch people in a weird way but so have straight people towards the opoosite sex
and they all call me asshole and say that i just view the gay population as feminin people or wtv
so a girl said smtng like i dont get how guys say that about guys but like lesbian porn
so i told her stfu u hoe straight and my teacher told me to get out... the girls friend who i think is gay(he is always on top of guys somehow no joke) starts telling me off and shit bc im mean to girls and call them bitch and nappy headed hoes
fuck them

While I agree that no one, regardless of sexual orientation, race or gender, should be touched inappropriately by anyone else, violence doesn't have to be the response to it. Obviously depending on the severity a degree of self defence could be required, but I can't say if that was the case in your example. Two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left and all that.

As for the response you got, perhaps telling that story (or perhaps the way you told it) on that day gives people the impression you are against homosexuals. Perhaps adding that you didn't think it was appropriate behaviour for anyone would have shown you weren't being homophobic. However it could easily have been interpreted as criticising or deriding homosexuals. By the way, this doesn't mean I'm on their side. Working on how you come across is just as important as the things that you say some times.

All of this is assuming you haven't made up the whole story haha