I'm gay and I make gay jokes and make fun of my people. Who cares?!
Hm, yeah, I was only thinking about this in the context of heteros getting offended that people might be upset.
But if there's someone around you who's in the closet, they might be uncomfortable. Everyone can talk how they want to, but ultimately you acknowledge that you're doing it for your own benefit, not others.
Honestly, it doesn't really matter, in the sense that I don't really care about every possible permutation of right and wrong. I was just thinking of contexts where people might get called homophobes and feel that it was unfair, and was arguing that you can't be
that upset about it if you're not considering other peoples' feelings in your speech either. I'm not language policing.
Besides, like I said, "homophobe" only really applies to a specific group of people.
I live in a predominantly Jewish town (not Jewish myself) and people make Jew jokes all the time, but that doesn't mean they can (or would) make those jokes everywhere without expecting some backlash. Depends on context. I had a friend named Sam who called himself "Sammy Wammy the Rainbow F****t" in high school (he was actually gay), and it was good laughs, but I wouldn't go around just talking like that for my own benefit, etc...
This was mainly aimed at people crying about PC and whatever.
