What's the diffference ?

I saw a movie mentioned, with a person supposedly %26quot;playing a homosexual window dresser who holds the brutalities of prison life at bay by the sheer force of his imagination%26quot;.





Why isn%26#039;t a movie like that discriminatory, whereas if I suggested that on my software project one of the team was


%26quot;playing a homosexual window dresser who holds the brutalities of releasing unsafe safety-critical software at bay by the sheer force of his imagination%26quot;, that would be discriminatory and I%26#039;d be booted out ?

What%26#039;s the diffference ?
The movie is a fictional work of art or entertainment and, as such, it is incapable of being discriminatory in the manner you describe.





You, on the other hand, work with real people creating a real product and none of your co-workers is a homosexual window dresser. If you were to suggest that about one of your co-workers it might be considered defamatory. Such conduct might also be considered harassment, or it might tend to create a hostile work environment, and constitute grounds for your termination.





Does that make sense to you?
Reply:It%26#039;s all about intentions.





If somebody wanted to convey the stereotypes of homosexuality and share that with others as a piece of fiction, then it%26#039;s hardly discrimination. Unless you only opened the part to %26quot;a homosexual window dresser who holds the brutalities of releasing unsafe safety-critical software at bay by the sheer force of his imagination.%26quot; That would be pretty discriminatory.





On the other hand when you use a phrase like that to detail somebody, you are inferring that they are a homosexual and that yourself don%26#039;t like homosexuals as you use it as a slur. Then you would kind of have the intentions of an asshole.



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