For the homosexuals:

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
You know, having great dress sense, taste in interior decor

You've never met my partner.

The number of times I've looked at him and thought,


" Kee-rist! Did you get dressed with your eyes closed in a rural coalshed at midnight ? "

As for his colour coordination, the less said the better.

He also cordially loathes shopping, specifically shopping for clothes. Unless it's jockstraps or muscle vests.

He also doesn't 'get' modern art. Or most art, for that matter.

[Starchild]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Unless it's jockstraps or muscle vests.

Fixed

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by EyesOfNight
Your mistake is that you are equating sexuality with race.

It's as 'natural' for me to be gay as it is for a person born to black African parents to be black.

You haven't shown any evidence that 'naturally' it is otherwise.

There is a norm for sexuality, there isn't one for race.

I've no idea how old you are, nor your nationality.

May I suggest that you look up American Civil War history, with specific regard to slavery and race.

Then go forward to the 1950s and 1960s and read up about the Civil Rights Movement.


You'll find copious comments from the wilfully ignorant and uneducated about what is normal for black people to expect, do and accept, based on their supposed 'natural' predilections and genetic inheritance.

Something changed. And it wasn't the genes of African Americans....

"Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"

August 1963
Letter from Birmingham Jail
by Martin Luther King Jr.


Oh they can't help it. It's in their genes.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by molly bloom

Making crass sweeping judgments based on false assumptions and ignorance would seem to be one of them....

Tee hee

Don't squabble with Molly, he knows everything.

Only some of us know his secret....

[Agathon]

Originally posted by molly bloom

What unalloyed joys and privileges of heterosexuality did you have in mind ?

I think he means the joy of living with women who, as a species:

• Insist on filling your house with useless, yet monstrous, ornaments.
  
• Cannot understand why anyone would own more than 20 compact discs
  
• have a violent and irrational prejudice against World of Warcraft or any other title released by Blizzard Entertainment.
  
• Cannot see any "point" to the history channel
  
• Insist that you both go "out" for no apparent reason, and do "something" (but has no idea what – but hey, at least you went "out")
  
• Won't order dessert, but nick yours (women are incorrigible food thieves).
  
• Complain about having to wear makeup and clothes and then spend hours shopping for them.
  
• Nag
  
• Think you are a shopping Sherpa
  
• Interrupt football broadcasts to wax on about how "cute" one of the players is (the player in question is usually worse looking than Wayne Rooney).
  
• Ask you trick questions like: "Does my arse look big in this?"

I've often wondered whether prejudice against homosexuals was an attempt to restore equality of suffering between them and the rest of us dudes.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
If you're bi then it is indeed just like that, I think.

Well, it's not.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Agathon


I think he means the joy of living with women who, as a species:

• Insist on filling your house with useless, yet monstrous, ornaments.
  
• Cannot understand why anyone would own more than 20 compact discs
  
• have a violent and irrational prejudice against World of Warcraft or any other title released by Blizzard Entertainment.
  
• Cannot see any "point" to the history channel
  
• Insist that you both go "out" for no apparent reason, and do "something" (but has no idea what – but hey, at least you went "out")
  
• Won't order dessert, but nick yours (women are incorrigible food thieves).
  
• Complain about having to wear makeup and clothes and then spend hours shopping for them.
  
• Nag
  
• Think you are a shopping Sherpa
  
• Interrupt football broadcasts to wax on about how "cute" one of the players is (the player in question is usually worse looking than Wayne Rooney).
  
• Ask you trick questions like: "Does my arse look big in this?"

I've often wondered whether prejudice against homosexuals was an attempt to restore equality of suffering between them and the rest of us dudes.

Now what was someone saying about "making crass sweeping judgments based on false assumptions and ignorance"?

My woman is not into ornaments, loves music, is fine with games, doesn't eat desert, complain about makeup or nag. She doesn't expect me to carry too much, loves football and knows exactly how big her arse is.

stereotypes
individuality

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Agathon
{edit : generic moan about women snipped}

http://apolyton.net/forums//showthread.php?postid=4980978#post4980978

Now what was someone saying about "making crass sweeping judgments based on false assumptions and ignorance"?

My woman is not into ornaments, loves music, is fine with games, doesn't eat desert, complain about makeup or nag. She doesn't expect me to carry too much, loves football and knows exactly what size her bum is.

stereotypes and prejudice
individuality

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
To clarify my beliefs:
I believe in God, and I don't pretend to understand His plans.
I don't think He makes mistakes, and I would hope that no gay, or straight, would be so uncomfortable inside their own skin that they would think to change themself.

Right or wrong, those are my opinions.

Slowwhand

[MrFun]

The STUPID question in the OP as to whether I would change my sexual orientation to heterosexuality is completely irrelevant to me, because I have never known a life as a heterosexual. The only thing that changed in my life, was the day that I fiinally understood why I was different, and I realized not only what I was not, but what I am . . . .

an affirmative/out gay man who is comfortable with his own masculinity and sexuality.

Like straight people, gays go through the stress and ups and downs that go with dating, sexual experiences, and so forth only the difference is between the two genders of the two people involved.

But gays go through the additional stress of living in a heterosexist and homophobic (these two terms are different but can be interrelated) society. Even given this added stress, I am not ashmed of being gay and refuse to let heterosexists and homophobes keep me down.

EyesofNight should join the same club of the willfully ignorant, grossly insensitive, and bigoted members that a few others on here belong to.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by EyesOfNight


Lets go this route then. Deviations from the norm in a negative way are disorders. Would this be disagreeable? For that matter, do you believe that homosexuality then would not be classified as a disorder?

Look up official literature by the American Medical Association and the American Pyschology Association; neither of them classify homosexuality as a disorder.

And even if we were to accept your ignorant fallacy for a moment, and say a disorder is based on a negative deviation, I do not see anything negative with being gay.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Now what was someone saying about "making crass sweeping judgments based on false assumptions and ignorance"?

My woman is not into ornaments, loves music, is fine with games, doesn't eat desert, complain about makeup or nag. She doesn't expect me to carry too much, loves football and knows exactly what size her bum is.

stereotypes and prejudice
individuality

Double posting long quotes
Lacking a sense of humor

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Cort Haus

My woman is not into ornaments, loves music, is fine with games, doesn't eat desert, complain about makeup or nag. She doesn't expect me to carry too much, loves football and knows exactly what size her bum is.

ALERT!! ALERT!!!

Proceed with blood sample to the state woman verification office now!!!

[Kuciwalker]

Oh, and Slowwhand

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Double posting long quotes

Fair point - edited.

Lacking a sense of humor

Bull****, coming from someone who is yet to post something remotely amusing. I suppose you find racist jokes are hilariously funny too.