Just wrong and off tangent

I'm swearing off "hate" blogs from now on (with the exception of dlisted because it's way too witty and funny).

In a fit of boredom, I dropped by Brian Gorell's blog yesterday. In one of his latest entries, he rants about Tim Yap's own blog entry, in which he (Tim) writes about a call center agent whom he overheards saying, "Ano ba ang pangalan ng bading na to?" referring to him (Tim).

Brian goes on a rampage because Tim had apparently denied he's gay before --- and with it, hurls gay slurs at Tim one after the other (I'm disgusted at his entry title alone).

Eh, who's homophobic now?

I left a comment in Brian's blog to bring up my main beef (not sure if he'll approve it):

1) What's wrong with being in the closet? As long as that person's not married, then it's no one else's business.

2) I would have been aboslutely pissed off by that call center agent's remark and would have had him suspended/fired (as opposed to Tim who talked nicely to him).

(Digression: A week ago, a group of former high school classmates invited me for a conference chat. When I entered the chat room, one remarked: "O ito na isa pang bading." I immediately left the room. Sensing that I was offended by it, that person eventually messaged me in private and apologized, and as a peace offering, invited me back to the room. To anyone reading this, you don't refer to a gay person as "bading" even if he is. He has a name.)

3) As a postnote, Brian offers this advice to Tim: "please use your spell check mate."

Coming from an actual horrendous speller, that's just funny.