[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Calling someone an offensive term is not on the scale of being physically threatening.

Heterosexual people are abused, raped and murdered on a daily basis for a multitude of reasons too, and in all cases being harassed with a word does not justify a physical attack.

Not that it's relevant. If we were discussing an attempted murder or rape then the reaction would be justifiable. As such, it wasn't.

it is when there is a long documented history of str8male bigots killing gay men on a daily basis. that is the world all gay men live in. the verbal harassment is how it always starts.

If this man had not fought back from the very first verbal harassment, it might have turned the other way, the bully would feel empowered, maybe followed him home, and then killed him in a secluded area. Those are the kinds of things that some gay men think about all the time. especially gay men that live in certain areas, and seen plenty of their friends brutally attacked before. This gay man in the video decided, i'm, not going to give this BIGOT the benefit of the doubt.

Why should he have to give a BIGOT the benefit of the doubt??