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Awesome as usual. The perspective is a good way to discuss and understand why people don’t choose their sexuality - and that stereotypes are not a way to understand who you are. Love it.

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As always, you have found a very topical theme. When I was little and went to sing at the choir, the boys in my class, I think out of envy, told us that we were "gays", and obviously it was not a pleasant nickname.

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Calling people names or stereotyping is hurtful to the targets and doesn’t do anything to create a caring environment.

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Many people with little capacity to learn and fear of not knowing how to defend their principles, only know how to attack because they do not have the knowledge to refute or argue.

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Being an old intermediate learner of English and I find this song or lyrics too fast and maybe culturally too specific here and there, but the following four lines instantly on first listen made sense and hit me hard (admittedly because I've been pretty much voiceless over social issues like these.

When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless

Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen.

I might not be the same, but that's not important.

No freedom 'til we' are equal, damn right I support it.

Half of me says "Who am I to talk?" The other half says "I'm moving forward in the right direction little by little, song by song, thanks to Louise's Social Issues in Song newsletters. Thank you.

Mitsuru Hiki

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Thank you for the kind words, Mitsuru.

We are all learning here. I hope that in some way these articles encourage us to persist so that we can create the kind of world we want to live in. You, too, are part of that effort!

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