Bigots: Presumptious

We've all been in a position where we've said something out loud assuming the others in attendance were in agreement, only to realise we'd completely misread the feelings of everyone else, making us look like a right royal doughnut.

Usually such an occurrence revolves around your opinion of the popular music scene, or maybe you're a Glee fan in the company of a group of normal people. Such events must be highly embarrassing for the bollock-dropper, so imagine how bad you would feel when you thought you were surrounded by like-minded bigots, only to realise you're actually amongst human beings.

Case in point - this past weekend. Long story short, the DJ at a leaving party I went to was a transvestite cabaret act. He was very entertaining, had a nice arse and gave the party the oomph it needed when it was going a bit flat. He was very well accepted (apparently he was a friend of the family) but there was no unpleasantness directed at the lad, and he ended the evening with most party goers on the dancefloor screeching 'New York, New York' in their regional dialect.

When we got back to the hotel afterwards, the bartender was asking another couple if they'd had a nice evening, and they were talking about this DJ:

Chap: "Yeah, it was....er....interesting"

Bartender: "Oh yeah?"

Chap: "Yeah..."

Silence, so I butt in

Me: "He was a transvestite cabaret act"

Bartender: "Right. Was he any good?"

Me: "He was great"

Chap: "I'll tell you something though, this kind of thing is becoming acceptable these days"

Bartender and I look at each other then him, wondering where it's about to go

Chap: "Er, which is good"

What a goon. He genuinely expected us to go "Bummers are gay" or something else suitably vitriolic, just because the DJ was from a social minority. Who gives a shit what he looks or dresses like? As he was drumming up dancers, he asked my friend and I if we wanted to join in, but upon hearing 'no' from us, he left us to it. He didn't overdo it, he didn't attempt to drag us up, and in the words of a world-class innuendoist, he didn't try to ram it down out throats.

On a serious note, people like the bar bigot need to be stamped out, and I'm glad he wasn't joined in his opinions by any of the other protagonists. Hopefully this episode made him realise how much of a weapon he is for a) expressing such opinions and b) having them in the first place. Maybe in time he might even learn to be tolerant of people just because their different to him, but given that includes right-minded people with morals, that could take some time. Dickhead.