Ha, well yes, when you put it that way... but you must admit that there's one difference: There's really no such thing as "white, middle-aged fat bastard-ophobia." Frat boys don't throw beer bottles at your head from moving jeeps and yell, "white, middle-aged fat bastard!" They don't smear a swastika of shit and shaving cream on your dorm room door and write "white, middle-aged fat bastard" on it in Magic Marker. Defunct celebrities like Anita Bryant have never led campaigns against you with titles like "God hates white, middle-aged fat bastards." Jerry Falwell has never denounced a Teletubby for allegedly seeming to be what you in fact are. And people who take Jerry Falwell seriously don't say to each other, "let's go kill us a white, middle-aged fat bastard."
So I know bunnerabb and boorite don't give a damn one way or another if you're gay or straight or some other kind of freak, but there are people who do, and so I understand if a gay person says to me, "hi, I'm a fag, and if you have a problem with that we might as well get busy with it."
I agree with you that it shouldn't be of any particular interest, but it wasn't you or me or really the queers either who made it that way. I think the zealots have got to leave it alone and stop talking about shooting people in the face.
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