Queer Query #12: RESPECT?

with my new blog, Queer Queries, its been accused by some friends of being "boring", undaring as it didnt have in it what my old blog use to have, the sex element, more like my exploration with guys how i discover more about myself through these guys, its probably because with this new blog i am doing something new with in me, i am becoming more toned down hence my blog became more toned down.

When i was starting this new blog there was something i had put in mind to be respectful in this blog, try not to offend people, my last post in my earlier blog had to do with religious blasphemy, where i might have been considered blasphemous myself. So you can see the 180 degree i took around with in blog. when are beloved IQ posted a new post titled Sin-Me my Sunni i was in shock, he did tell me a couple of days before him posting it that he is going to post something around his religious fetish however i didnt expect it to be offensive to a religion in specific. what shocked me even more was his "Scene II" where he went infront of a guy who is praying and did the spread eagle while practicing his abs!!! talk about disturbing a man's peace, even if the guy was turned on, the idea of disturbing a guy when he is praying regardless of which diety he is praying to ... is just not so respectful

the point is ever since the blogospher was created, god knows when, i remember there was a lot of debate on it and there still is. debate was mostly bloggers becoming news reporters, bloggers have no censorship at all on them, etc. Not that i am pro censorship, but there is one thing i know though, when blogging a person should try to be respectful of others, as IQ said offensive is subjective, as you can see on some of the comments on his new post some of it are pro it and some of it are against it, so obvoiusly its not offensive to all, YET!!!!!! WAIT WE HAVE A BRAIN, GOD GAVE US BRAIN, if you dont believe in god, then which ever deity you believe in gave us a brain, science gave us a brain, which we us to think, when posting something of the nature of what IQ said, we will be quite sure that a lot of people will be offended after all not all his readers, followers, are of similar thought to him.

E, the blogger of awkward sex in the city has left an interesting comment on IQ post

"There is one thing to have a religious fetish, and its a totally different thing to resort to distasteful insinuations to increase your readership.
I personally find it pathetic and a very sad excuse for being "controversial".
But then again, ever the attention-seeking queen that you are, you will do anything to get people talking about what you "write", if I can call it "writing" at all.
And what I find absolutely infuriating is that pseudo-serious attitude you take towards established religion.
You are not "taking down" religion, God forbid, to actually critique it or give us some new insight, or even let us question age-old negative attitudes, no, you are being vulgar, disrespectful with half-baked ideas that are very badly written!
If you don't have anything better to say about homoeroticism of same-sex communities or the traditions that Muslims believe in (being negative or positive) than you would do us all a big favor and keep your "intense, sexy Scorpio" mouth shut!!"

now while most of the times, me and E have had our differences in the blogosphere where we dont agree on the same thing, but i think here E i do agree with you. IQ you can always blog about your religious fetishes nothing wrong with that, but there is always a good way to blog about it and the way you did. oh and i still cant "Scene II" out my head i cant believe you actually did that. Yes as you said its something "you" liked to do... but the key thing about respect is NOT "you" its respecting the other, so if a guy was praying we shouldnt disturb him, and dont give me the whole he choose to to pray here stuff, secondly with regards to your blog entry, well i am sure if you did some rewording you can convey the same point, with the same strength while not offending other people, Yes i am one of the gay guys who is offended by this. Just because we are gay, or agnostic it doesnt give us the automatic right to talk down about other religions, a true respectful person would respect all of other people beliefs.


respectfully yours,
Q