This troper has seen a popular image supposedly made in favor of gay rights. It shows Lady Liberty sweeping Blind Justice off her feet and passionately kissing her. The issue with the picture is that Blind Justice isn't really aware of the situation (considering shes being blindfolded then swept off her feet and all). While there is no reason to believe she isn't enjoying the kiss, it sort of supports the anti-gay criticism that the LGBT community wants to impose itself upon others. Maybe they should've used Columbia or just put her blindfold down (which could have been more powerful IMO).

Tropers/MollyWalker: While visiting the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory, I came across one of the "Seconds" bears - customized teddy bears that, for whatever reason, were sent back (perfectly good, they just say stuff like "It's A Girl!" or "For Deanna" on them). So, I stumbled across one with writing on each of the four paws: "Keira, Please / Forgive Trent / He Loves You / Beary Much." How sweet, right? Wrong. Think about it - that fact that the bear is back in the Shop means Keira ''sent him back''. Awww =(

This troper was looking at the front window of a Build-A-Bear Workshop display, wherein amongst many dressed Teddy Bears was a Teddy ''Pig'' dressed up as a ''Police'' man. This troper began to wonder...

Build-a-bear places apparently dance a risky tango with this trope, primarily due to the method by which some places insert the stuffing. Namely a spike inserted into the bear's hollow epidermis via the backside. The spike is stationary. The bear needs to be jammed onto the spike anus first. Now the idea of someone forcibly filling a empty bear up with white stuff via its backside has bad enough connotations, but imagine being small child who has spent all this time making the empty shell, and thus perhaps become attatched to it. A friend of mine witnessed the aftermath of such an event, the (~3 year old) child wasn't impressed at the worker going Vlad Tepes on his creation.

This furry troper has talked to a fellow furry who seems to have a hard time thinking through the implications of some of his ideas. There are two instances of this which shall be defined below:

First case: We were talking about what a furry version of our world would be like, and he had the idea that the semitic people would be represented by a species of jackal. In his logic, Jackals are a canine species (and thus they would be able to breed with other canine species) that originated from the Middle East. However, outside the Furry Fandom, Jackals are seen as generally unsavory, greedy, and evil. This stereotype is also held by antisemites about Jews.

Second and most recent case: We were talking about how sexual orientation would apply to hermaphrodites (specifically, the Futanari variety where you have the reproductive capabilities of both men and women) and I presented the idea that a gay hermaphrodite would only be interested in other hermaphrodites, rather than a male or female partner. He proposed that maybe a gay hermaphrodite would only go or partners that matched to his/her gender identity. I did not ask nor receive his line of logic, but to me, it seemed like a case where, if for some reason the hermaphrodite in question had to change gender identities, then if s/he was gay, s/he would have to change partners really fast and push the idea that AllGaysArePromiscuous.

I actually think YOU are having a moment of UnfortunateImplications here. "Hermaphrodite" is actually an offensive term and they prefer to be called intersex. Also, just because you're intersex doesn't mean your gender identity is intersex, so a person who is physically intersex could be gay or straight just like anyone else. Also, why would they have to change partners fast?

This Troper once had to do a project for Art Class in Sophomore year. To be specific, we had to make political artwork (I did mine on censorship). One guy comes up, with a sign reading "VOTE FOR OBAMA," with a picture of a dark skinned ''caveman'' with a spear. When asked, he said the point was that voting for Obama would set things back significantly, but needless to say, this troper's jaw dropped.

Recently I was at a car show held by the lake. As me, my dad, and brother are getting in the car we see a group of black people walking by and one of them asks "are we lost." Not really an odd thing normally, but this is a redneck town in Idaho (it happened down the road from a chapel called "The Hitchin' Post"). We had to laugh at the implications of this.

This Troper remembers working as an editor for his school's literary journal. One of the poetry submissions he had to review was called "My MayDecemberRomance." Nothing inherently bad about that... except that the poem included (among other interesting bits) lines that went something along the lines of, "You'll be my Humbert and I your {{Lolita}}." So apparently the author was well enough aware of the content of that book to know Humbert's name, but didn't see the irony in using that as a defence of her own relationship? So yeah...

This troper is watching a documentary that deconstructs the depiction of Arabs in film. It seems that, no matter how many years have passed, Arab characters are either AlwaysChaoticEvil, terrorists, or greedy. It smartly examines the depiction of them in film. I'm surprised they didn't cover TheLastAirbender!

There's an Australian (and possibly elsewhere) Christian group that runs camps during the school holidays and maybe other stuff. The camps are a lot of fun, and the leaders are really nice, and you get to go rock climbing! The problem? They're called Crusaders. Um, yeah...

This troper had it happen today when one of her classmates was discussing how the sentence structure of the story we were reading made the character seem uneducated. The character in question was Native American, and this troper has a lot of Native American friends. Needless to say she made the UnfortunateImplications of that statement quite known.

This troper was involved in a 2010 production of the Donizetti opera "The Elixir of Love." Originally, the opera takes place in "a small village in the Basque country," but, in the spirit of our location (western North Carolina), the director decided to stage the opera in "a small village in the Antebellum South"...which meant that all the happy, singing, dancing, smiling Basque peasants had been turned into happy, singing, dancing, smiling...African American slaves.

On this website, the FiveManBand is ordered as follows: Leader - Second-in-command - Muscle - Brains - Odd one out. The FiveBadBand is arranged Leader - Second-in-command - Brains - Muscle - Odd one out. '''HMMMMM.'''

This troper was watching JeepersCreepers, specifically the second one, and noticed the certainly odd preference the director had for showing shirtless boys on the screen. A lot. Then I looked up the director, and things turned much, much freakier and scarier. Not only was the monster damn horrifying, but the vibes it left were just...ugh.

The sad bit is that it's not that much different from how most straight male horror film makers portray women, it's just that this one happen to be a gay pedophile.

At this troper's school in the health class for the kids a few grades below her, the kids had to make posters about stereotypes. Most of them weren't that bad except for two posters that she will paraphrase. "There is a damaging stereotype that all left-handed people are gay. This is very offensive to left-handed people because nobody wants to be portrayed as gay." "All French people are gay is a very bad stereotype because just because they wear nice clothes does not mean they are gay and French men are not gay because they have sex with lots of ladies and it is degrading to say they are gay." Both of those kids claim to support equal rights for the LGBT community. She and her friend were reading the posters and we both looked shock and mentioned the trope in name.

In the province of Ontario, Canada, we have a park called Killbear Provincial Park.

I have an issue with phone companies sending me phone books – in Spanish only, with no English alternative delivered. Note that I have a Hispanic last name, but don't speak much Spanish, so this is nearly useless for me. It seems that phone companies (multiple ones, in multiple US states, in multiple parts of the country) seem to think that customers with Hispanic last names need Spanish-language phone books, because they'd be more comfortable with them than an English-language counterpart.

Been there too. I have a Hispanic last name and as a result get a lot of mail and cold calls in Spanish. Apparently the fact that a lot of Filipinos (which I am) also have Hispanic last names never occurred to any of these companies.

This troper is playing an arrangement of John Williams marches in an ensemble he's in. The first march- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Nazis going to find the lost Ark of the Covenant). The second- The Imperial March (Darth Vader and the Empire). The third? Olympic Theme and Fanfare. Apparently international sports competitions are organizations of evil.

Basically everywhere (high school, the office, even CHURCH), this gay troper has noticed that whenever a man (regardless of s.o.) acts nicely, is generous, kind, or shows even the most remote possible human affection, they are called "gay". Now, doesn't it seem, to anyone else, that calling the most virtuous traits anyone can have "gay", make it seem as though straight men ought to be, I dunno, {{Complete Monster}}s? Why does no one stop this?

Because people have it pounded into their head every day that men are supposed to be strong, macho, emotionless leaders who care only for themselves. Thankfully, we're steadily moving from this stereotype.

I accidentally stumbled across some fanart of Violet and Mirage from ''TheIncredibles'' on DeviantArt, having a sleepover. The artist in question draws mostly femslash (and quite skillfully, too). Violet is a shy, insecure 14-year old girl, and Mirage is an attractive, self-possessed, mature woman who, according to the pictures, has a sleepover with her, watches her sleeppiece after the sleepover depicts Mirage sleeping as the morning light falls across her face, ostensibly naked under the covers, while Violet, curled up in a nearby chair in an almost fetal position, watches ''her'' sleep with an odd not-quite-a-smile on her face. It's pretty easy to AlternativeCharacterInterpretation this into "they just had sex" and "Violet is practicing her fake smile for when she lies to her parents". When Violet falls asleep doing homework in another piece, Mirage touches her with an almost paternal look., takes her to the fair where she rides with Violet on a Ferris wheel--in fact, if she was a dude, she'd be a stereotypical pedophile. One of the descriptions even says they spent a "wonderful night"

I played Lucy in a local production of the musical ''Jekyll and Hyde'' by Frank Wildhorn. The title character gets two love interests: Lucy and also Emma, Jekyll's fiancee. Emma is pretty much the love of Jekyll's life and is still alive by the end of the show, while Lucy gets horribly murdered by Hyde. So it looked a little unfortunate that we had an Asian Lucy and a white Emma ...

I think an example in my {{Fanfic}} may count. The main character was given a weakness where, if she were picked up by the wrist and lifted into the air, she became catatonic, due to a traumatic NoodleIncident in her past. The unfortunate part is so far, the only characters who've actually picked her up were ''both male'', and one of them has been shown doing it ''intentionally!'' Oh, it gets better: her reaction may even count as a case of DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything. Yup, NothingIsScarier indeed.

This troper and his sister, who have an Indian dad and a white mother, have run into this several times. My sister once had to get something at a gas station, and the guy at the counter, who was trying to be chummy, started speaking Spanish to her. My sister told him that she doesn't speak Spanish, and the guy was taken aback. And while I was in middle school, an acquaintance asked me if I was a fan of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden (there was probably something in the conversation that specifically led to that question, but I don't remember what). I told him no, and he angrily blurted out "Oh, so you've betrayed your own kind, huh?!" to which I responded that I am Indian. Incidentally, this same acquaintance was an atheist who adheres to the "religion results in racism" camp.

There's a public safety officer at This Troper's school that rides a Segway around the campus. We all call him Segway Cop. Whenever I see him, this song plays in my head. Segway Cop is black. There's been a lot of backpedaling to my friends.