I'm not gonna suggest that the redneck population is as welcoming as homosexuality as say New York City or Los Angeles, but I would like to set the record straight about the new age rednecks of the world that I inhabit.
There are quite a few really old school individuals that are greatly opposed to it but I think you would be surprised about how the younger people (I'm in my 40's so we'll start there and count down) are really rather indifferent towards how someone else wants to manage their own lives.
That is not my truck. I do not know the person this belongs to but as far as the people I hang with and keep around me (and at the Elk's lodge) any sort of blanket hatred for homosexuals better be something you keep hidden if that is the way you feel, because that is not the way we roll.
Mostly, myself and my redneck buddies are more of a "live and let live" people and believe it or not, we don't really care how you or anyone else decides to live their own lives. I'm a little upset that it is assumed we would be anti-gay because that assumption is based on not really knowing us. If someone could spend a day drinking a Coors Light or 6 in the Elk's Lodge I bet a lot of minds could be changed.
But this brings me to another point that anyone would have a difficult time getting through the redneck community and it is this fascination that we sometimes hear about - various pronouns for new, made up gender roles.
I came across this the other day but I don't remember why. I had heard about this a bit but when I saw this chart I thought it was a joke. I can tell you right now, if some left-winger out there believes there will ever be a point in time where the country community is going to get on board with this - I think they are dreaming.
It isn't an anti-gay thing, it isn't even an anti-trans thing, it's just a "WTF?" thing. Do we really need this? You see, the whole reason why the redneck community has come around to accepting the gay way of life (and I am pretending to speak for an entire community here, which is likely a mistake) is because it really takes a whole lot more effort to interfere in someone else's life than it takes to just let people do whatever they want as long as it doesn't hurt someone else.
Once when I was in college (that's right, i went to college and did really well too!) and I had really long hair a man came up to my car window to tell me that he liked my bumper sticker. I was skinny then as well and all he saw was the long hair. He referred to me as "maam." This was kind of funny and we both laughed about it later and he said that he meant no offense. None taken on my part as it was an honest mistake.
Now let's imagine that I was one of these made up gender things and I said "actually, it is "Faer!" That's a bit unfair don't you think? Forcing people to completely change their way of talking and complicate life for others because I want to be something that doesn't really exist.
I got a bit off-topic there but basically I'm just trying to say that the stereotype of the redneck community being anti-gay isn't entirely true. I try to keep my worldview as open as possible and be as accepting as I possibly can be about whatever anyone else wants to do. But all of this pronoun stuff just seems like madness to me.... don't you think so?
