Villains: Sophie Miriam Herold
No doubt vibrating at a high frequency, and lashing out like a frightened animal that has been cornered, a young woman called Sophie Miriam Herold has been hard at work through Tumblr and YouTube denouncing gay people as “wrong” on the grounds that most people are straight and “right”. There is no room for anything but binary oppositions in her endeavours. She has also, it would seem, been gathering information from cyberspace and outing gay people. I do not like to throw around words like sociopath but it seems that this disturbed young woman is exactly that.
There is so much to choose from in one choice diatribe, as hosted on Tumblr by Brianna Lee. Miss Herold explains that LGBT people should not be afforded equal rights on the grounds that “there isn’t an endless amount of human rights available, we have to deploy our resources carefully and wisely. Eventually you will understand this one day.” She’s a conservationist, you see, and she’s protecting normal people from people who would redefine normal. Or something like that. Her argument bounces around like a strait-jacketed man in a padded cell, and so it could mean anything.
This self-professed “peaceful blogger”’ had her Tumblr and YouTube accounts deleted. But she soldiers on. “I’m not afraid of you gay people. I will fight you as long as I can. I know that by putting me out there I will be harassed and threatened. That is the price I have to pay for telling the truth about gay people. But I am not afraid of being physically harmed or killed. You may break my bones, but you can’t change the facts: that homosexuality is abnormal and disgusting.” And in a rhetorical move that astounds, she follows that LGBters should repent and return to a state she calls normal: “Discipline, self control, rational thoughts should always dominate your mind.” Your mind, you see, LGBT people, not hers. So be rational, return to normal, and renounce your lifestyle!
There is no rational thought in this, and certainly no self-control. This is the reactionary mind lashing out. And so, she continues, “because only 10% of all people are LGBTQ, we can abandon them. The world population is already large enough, why should we keep the gays alive.” The final solution? It’s the only logical conclusion to her offbeat argument: kill or be killed. She does not even thank gay couples for not reproducing and therefore further increasing the population. How ungrateful! You see, dubbing her a sociopath was in no way extreme.
The fun thing is that the brave solider wants to hear from you. She’s not afraid! “My name is Sophie Miriam Herold, I’m a 21-year-old female undergraduate student from Germany. You also know me as smartypants. You can contact me by sending a message to: smarty2010pants@googlemail.com.” Let’s prove how polite we are, and answer her call! (UPDATE: that email no longer works, and so I assume she did not want to hear from people …)
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I don’t understand your thinking about gay people, we are one of the most peaceful group of people out there, I don’t ever hear of the “gays” murdering their children or “gays” shooting an innocent young man for looking like a law breaker, or “gays” molesting children while wearing a cross around their necks……why don’t you spend your energy fighting a just cause. I know people like you, you hate and you hate and nothing more, and it’s a sad thing. We are everywhere and we are not going away, I suggest you get your battle gear on and keep it on for a very long time, for yours is going to be a long hard road.
That would be because that is considered insensitive. Homosexuality is one of the most sensitive topics at the moment and anyone profiling gays would be slaughtered, as is evidenced above.
Saying you’re one of the most peaceful groups in the world is both generalising and prejudiced. Sure, the LGBT is no Irish Republican Army but to profile a whole group of people who share a sexual preference under the same banner is just perpetuating the issue.
I have to agree there. We are just people, we are fully capable of doing what any other person does. However because the minority of the population is LGTBQ you wont see as many crimes commited by us as often. Doesnt mean it doesnt happen.
It would seem as though her boyfriend came out, and she can’t understand that he is attracted romantically and physically to other men. Apparently she seems to think being gay is a choice, one she could never make, so she feels abnormal, and this is why she advocates against equality. She was burned.
I don’t think this woman is just a hater of all who are differant.
But she’s forgetting GOD sees past the differences and loves all who come to him in the name Of CHRIST.
So to her I say wake up if GOD loves us as his childern than love us for what we are Brothers and SISTER’S STOP HATING.
Oh dear. Twenty years ago, this young woman’s opinions would have been confined to her friends and her personal journal. Now, she can make an idiot of herself in front of the whole world, and her campaign will stain her character forever, even if she changes her mind when she gets older.
I’m increasingly of the opinion that if you’re under 30 and not a celebrity or politician, then your silly views should be challenged privately but not publicly exposed. Young people don’t realise how easily it is to damage yourself online – look at Dharun Ravi. So I’d advocate cutting them some slack, trying to set a good example and giving them time to grow up.
I’m glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and so my own silly views won’t be able to come back to haunt me.
It’s the fact that she’s waging a war, and actively outing people, some who are not ready to tell their parents, that bothers me. Then it goes beyond just being opinion.
It is a major issue and it’s hard to understand the psychological ramifications that might cause someone to see that as an acceptable thing to do. It could easily stem from seeking control over others, I feel. Anyway, her arguments are hollow and easily rebuked. In the end it’s just more publicity against homophobia, showcasing the extremes that stain the anti-homosexual agenda.
I agree with Paul though, “kids say the darndest things” and the broadcasting potential of anything stupid we say can blast a person to hell as long as their comment is insensitive enough. In the end some people just want or even need something to justify hate. We’re all humans, we all have our lives and, in my opinion, we should be happy knowing that we’re one of the ones who haven’t been brought up believing immoral medieval doctrine.
Isn’t this just ageism? Hasn’t history already proven that young people, although ‘angry and confused’, can be in the right?
Obviously this girl is extremely mistaken, but just because she is young and female does not mean she isn’t to be taken seriously, especially in this age where a stroke of a keyboard can change your entire life and the lives of many others around the world.
I don’t think that you understand the scope of what she is doing.
She has been sending hate messages to LGBT people on the internet, ILLEGALLY collecting their contact details and addresses, forming an entire DATABASE, and sending it to anti-LGBT groups.
Not only has this led to people who weren’t ready to come out of the closet (for reasons such as parental disapproval or living in a violent community) being revealed, but there have been MURDERS. She has also collected details of same-sex couples so that their children can be taken away.
Just because she is young and has an opinion doesn’t mean she can be disregarded. She isn’t just an argument to be rebuked, either. She is an active force against LGBT rights, and has shown the power of today’s internet society.
I can’t remember my exact thoughts because I made this comment a year or so ago but I think I was more trying to make a point that people do say absurd things. They certainly can mean it but by blasting them into oblivion we don’t make progress. As to what works I really have no idea. I, personally, can’t offer a solution to hate-agendas or what causes them. There does need to be repercussions for actions such as these and I was in no way trying to dismiss that. I think I was more trying to focus on the root of the problem rather than how we deal with the individual. But really, rereading this article, from what is mentioned of her actions she really was off-the-rails. I never meant to dispel her actions as something that should go unpunished. Rather, I meant to suggest that it would be best not to target this women as some sort of figurehead of anti-LGBT attitudes. Anyway, I think that was the gist of my comment, from memory.
Paul, this is not a child. It is a 21-year-old grown woman.
In the US, she is legally old enough to drink, smoke, drive, hold a job, vote, play the lottery, buy a gun, serve in the military, get married, and do a slew of other adult things.
She is entitled to hold any “silly view” she wants, but she is not entitled–at the age of 21 or at any other–to use that “silly view” as an excuse to endanger the well-being, safety, and lives of LGBT folks, and if she chooses to do so she certainly is old enough to be publicly called out and held accountable for it.
I tried to send her an email with some suggestions but unfortunately her email address either no longer exists or is incorrect.
That’s the right address, it’s just not working any more. I guess she didn’t want to hear from us all after all …
This is what i’m going about telling the entire communities on Facebook, etc.
That homosexuality is the SOLUTION to this OVERPOPULATION. Why doesn’t ANYONE understand?!
“because only 10% of all people are LGBTQ, we can abandon them. The world population is already large enough, why should we keep the gays alive.”
Oh my God, Hitler’s little girl.
What I don’t get is how do children get these ideas??? Who on earth has drilled those murderous thoughts in her. It’s not just sad, it’s troublesome and may prove to be dangerous in the future.
There are some people in this world who get off on negativity. Don’t feed her. Negativity provides sustenance for her injured soul. She’s focusing her own latent lesbian tendencies on us all. Notice her use of language. This is a sick & sorely confused individual who is most likely a self-loathing lesbian, and haven’t we all come in contact with someone like this? Yeah, for me -more than once!
She’s a sad person. I pity anyone who stokes that much negativity, instead of putting her energies into more useful, fruitful endeavors. She is but one microcosm, yes, but she is most definitely a sad person. Imagine her life. Now dismiss her as the cosmic hiccup she is. Don’t waste your time or energy on her. She will fade. Hate cannot sustain itself for very long. The laws of the Universe apply to her as well. She will eventually implode.
Poor girl, she may have mental health issues, no one can hold out with such cognitive dissonance forever. She needs pity more than anything else
No, she needs a swift kick in the arse! Quit coddling our enemies!
you got that right, Lyuba!!
I don’t believe violence is ever an answer to violence, and that’s what this person is encouraging. Don’t play tit-for-tat with her. Meet her on an intellectual level and realize that just as there are people out there (the KKK comes to mind) who would like to wipe out anyone who isn’t white, there will always be people who take exception to homosexuals. We’re used to it. We don’t have to abide it, but we accomplish nothing when we encourage violence. Just MHO.
Um, I gather that the photo you’ve used there is of a different Sophie Herold, who’s come under sustained attack because of being falsely associated with this lunatic. You might want to be more careful.
Thanks for pointing that out. We used a picture that was on 3 different blogs. It’ll be replaced ASAP.
She said that gays only make up about 10% of people, first of all where the hell did she get her statistics because are way off and secondly, 10% of ALL people is a huge fucking chunk. She is a moron.
who is the Sophie Herold, that is breaking so many laws and putting gays in danger .. hey you know what I have to say to her .. come get me you homophobic killer