The onion article is in no way, even remotely making fun of Lawrence King. In no conceivable universe is it doing that. If it were, it would be making fun of violence AGAINST 'effeminate boys', not violence BY them.

the humor comes from the fact A. that 'prissy' boys aren't associated with violence and to imagine them being so is funny, and B. applying the argument that violent video games make violent kids in a way it isn't normally made: 'effeminately' violent video games will make effeminately violent kids. look at the pictures taken from the game.

 

 

First and foremost I must say that Lawerence King didn't have to be murder or made fun of in a perfect world, his precious life was cut short because many of us have become so jaded and so bitter about what we consider acceptable and unacceptable behavior.  What struck me as odd was the fact that this crime was committed by another young person.  It's just my belief but I have found recently that younger people from all walks of life are normally very tolerant of mostly anything that is considered different.  When they become that jaded where killing becomes a solution,  than something is very wrong with our society.  I can honestly say that I experienced so much flack for being gay when I was in school.  Lets just say some serious growing pains, that I could have done without.  The sad reality was the fact that I wasn't sure that I was even gay yet at that time.  I'm not sure if there were any classmates of mine that wanted to hurt me or even kill me but you never know.  There were some classmates that made it clear to myself and the entire class, that I wasn't someone they would like to be alone with at any giving time.  It seems those kinds of displays of affections, would end up attracting some other people that actually liked my company and didn't care either way.  It seems the outburst would end up having the wrong results for my homophobic peers.  It seems that they intended on making me look bad and cause some serious trouble for me, the alleged gay kid.  It seems that as an adult,  I would happily and successfully work in the restaurant industry for some time.  I sometimes felt like everyone's dad and even grandpa at times because and I would interact with some young people still in high school and college.  I have to say that working with young people keeps you feeling young and always remembering when you didn't have grays or gravity wasn't taken over.  Sometimes I used to pray I would wake up younger because I would meet some amazing and very accepting individuals.  Thanks to them, I was under the impression that homophobia among the young people was a thing of the past.  I was really under the impression that younger have a hard enough time figuring out things for themselves to be wondering if Billy or Suzy is gay.  You would be surprised some of the conversation I had with some of my younger co-workers and I can honestly say friends.  I can admit that sometimes I would forget that I was talking with babies but I remained the adult in the situation and conversation.  I don't want to act like a saint because believe me it was hard on some occasions but I knew the affects wouldn't be good.  I could have taken full advantage of many of these situations but I knew what it was like when I was younger.  There were older guys that were in life, that I just needed to talk to about life and my fears and concerns for my future.  Somehow lines got crossed, mixed up and very confused but that was then.  It seems that I know that I didn't sign up to be a role model but that comes with age.  I would became somewhat of gay icon or gay superhero if I may, to many of my co-workers, that might have thought about being rude or disrespectful to some of their classmates that were gay or alleged to be gay.  Somehow my openness about being gay wasn't something that I always felt comfortable discussing with some of these kids or even my own peers.  You never want that stigma attached to you because regardless of being gay that is the most important thing of your being.  I never wanted to be known as 'MY GAY CO-WORKER or THE COOL GAY GUY I WORK WITH'.  However thanks to them, I realized that being gay is a very important part of my life.  It is who I am and I shouldn't have felt so bad about being myself.  It took some years to really feel comfortable in my own skin and that something that most don't want to admit.  I don't want to say that everyone was always happy about interacting with me but like some of my old classmates, it seems that when more than a handful of people are saying your cool or your a great person, that tends to spread.  I would find that when older people jump on board with their own messages of hate and confusion, that is where and when things get messed up.  Unfortunately we live in a world that is so perfectly flawed because it seems that we get our kicks off of looking down or hurting someone else.  I used to be big on playing video games even as adult but it seems they are way too advanced and full of messages that shouldn't be put out for anyone, young or old.  There have been some video games where drugs are sold and taken, homeless and women are beating up and even killed for fun and the list goes on and on.  Lawerence King's life shouldn't be mocked or played up or down, this was actually one of our special angels in this life.  It seems that he was young and very proud of his sexuality and there are a few of us that can say that we had that much courage to lead his life at his age.  I know at 15, I had too many crushes to even begin to list but I always played it cool and never discussed how I really felt about anything with anyone.  I had to pretend to be this or that and Lawerence was a hero in my book for having the courage to be himself all the time. His life was too short but it seems that with the media attention that his life and death have received, finally attention is going to be paid on dealing with young  and old people and the new growing problem with sexuality.  It sad that he had to die for this too happen but Lawerence King is actually putting a face with so many nameless and faceless gay men and women that were murdered because of their beliefs.