Society & Culture Homosexuality

[Drakescoffeecake]

Often. And not just gay guys either. Chicks too.maybe we roll in different crowds? Ever consider that? I just don't think its necessary to stick your tongue down someones throat cause you want to be looked at by the general population.

Often? You see guys making out with each other in public OFTEN? Really? Do you live next door to a gay club?

And I must say i hardly see straight couples "sticking their tongue down each others throat" in public let alone same sex couples. A quick kiss and hug yeah all the time, but full blown making out with tongues down throats? Hardly ever

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Often? You see guys making out with each other in public OFTEN? Really? Do you live next door to a gay club?

And I must say i hardly see straight couples "sticking their tongue down each others throat" in public let alone same sex couples. A quick kiss and hug yeah all the time, but full blown making out with tongues down throats? Hardly ever

Unless they are 14 or 15 years old and waiting for the bus outside my office and off school grounds then they do it because they deem it to be cool.

Should qualify that: straight couples, not same sex. Same sex could get the shit beaten out of them at school.

 

[Gough]

I'm not, Gough is.

His arguement seems to be that homosexuality occurs naturally, breathing occurs naturally. Thus you can not be for breathing but against homosexuality.

By that logic you can't be for homosexuality and against cannibalism.

Is cannibalism natural? I have no idea, maybe you could enlighten me.

I guess I find the concept of someone being "against" homosexuals completely bizarre. I am against many things in life, but almost without exception those opinions are developed as a result of my personal experience. Now for those of you who are "against" homosexuality, I am assume it is through your own experiences that you have formed this dislike anything else, to me seems irrational. To you I say, yes it does hurt at first but in time you will learn to love it.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Absolutely indifferent.

I truly believe indifference is underrated in social and political issues.

I'm not a strong advocate for gay rights, nor am I archaically opposed to it. I realise, and accept, the fact that homosexuality exists: Just as I accept heterosexuality and bisexuality. I'm not scared by any sexuality, any fetish (not to say that being gay is a mere sexual 'thrill', like a fetish), or anything of the like. As I believe in most things, if it's harmless in terms of utilitarianism, it's acceptable.

I don't care about males kissing in front of me. No, let me rephrase that.

I care no more about two blokes kissing than I do a guy and a girl. But the idea of public affectionate (more than holding hands, a hug, a quick kiss: I'm talking about a full on toungey) intruded on the comfort of others is negative. However, that comfort should be gaged on decency – that's irrelevant of sexuality.

However, being an advocate for homosexuality is grating. To accept yourself is cool. But to brandish it around as your primary form of self-expression is a little predated. It's also an example of double standards: To assimilate all sexualities into 'normal' society is to be within boundaries. You accept your sexuality, you can have pride in it, but to so flamboyantly showcase it seems crass. But hey, people have a right to showcase it... It's just a thing I have (and a thing I have with straight people as well. Straight conservatives who are uber proud of their straightness are undoubtedly just as annoying).

 

[Bennett.]

So here we have a thread about open discussion but if that discussion is anything but supportive then we have to "keep our hate to ourselves"?

nailed it! What do you think about something, and it BETTER be the RIGHT answer!!

 

[edgie]

Often? You see guys making out with each other in public OFTEN? Really? Do you live next door to a gay club?

And I must say i hardly see straight couples "sticking their tongue down each others throat" in public let alone same sex couples. A quick kiss and hug yeah all the time, but full blown making out with tongues down throats? Hardly ever

Yes. Once a week at the pub is often to me. Theres no gay bar in a town with 20,000 population. The guys aren't so bad but the 4-5 les chicks i know do it gratuitously cause they seem to think the world is stuck in the 50's/attention whore and they are oh so edgy

 

[bunsen burner]

Yes. Once a week at the pub is often to me. Theres no gay bar in a town with 20,000 population. The guys aren't so bad but the 4-5 les chicks i know do it gratuitously cause they seem to think the world is stuck in the 50's/attention whore and they are oh so edgy

You obviously live in Alice Springs. More carpet has been sold in Alice Springs than any other town/city in Australia. Carpet munching capital.

I'd be pissed too. Every girl who is tongue kissing another lowers your law of averages.

 

[GreyWind]

Don't see the problem with it if they want to get married good luck to them. Maybe they can do better than the 50% divorce rate of heterosexual couples or last longer than the celebrity weddings, but marriage is a sacred thing we can't ruin it by letting homosexual couples try .

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[edgie]

You obviously live in Alice Springs. More carpet has been sold in Alice Springs than any other town/city in Australia. Carpet munching capital.

I'd be pissed too. Every girl who is tongue kissing another lowers your law of averages.

Broken Hill actually but I reckon we'd be right up there!

 

[Upgrayedd]

A Lesbian punched me once because i was making out with her girlfriend drunk once,

I really did not know what to do.

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

A Lesbian punched me once because i was making out with her girlfriend drunk once,

I really did not know what to do.

Ask her to join in?

 

[the fly]

Broken Hill actually but I reckon we'd be right up there!

I used to work with a gay guy from Broken Hill (the less said about him the better, couldn't stand him) who said something along the same lines. Apparently there was a McDonalds out there (this was about 10 years ago) where most of the managers were lesbians.

 

[sabre_ac]

South Park has summed up the issue of homosexuality as good as anything I've seen.

You don't have to like it but you have to tolerate it. That pretty much sums up my opinion. Seeing a gay couple does make me a little umcomfortable but that is because it doesnt feel natural for me and its my issue not theirs.

I also believe everyone sits somewhere on the scale between 100% homosexual and 100% hetrosexual and in most cases your sexuality is a function of who you are and not a choice.

They should have the same rights as hetrosexual couples I am completely in agreeance with this.

 

[CrimsonButterfly]

It doesn't bother me. I have gay friends.

I don't judge. If a lesbian was to make a pass at me I would politely decline. I would treat them the same as I would a male.

My Dad and brother disgust me with their attitude towards it and label it as a 'disease'

 

[bunsen burner]

South Park has summed up the issue of homosexuality as good as anything I've seen.

You don't have to like it but you have to tolerate it. That pretty much sums up my opinion. Seeing a gay couple does make me a little umcomfortable but that is because it doesnt feel natural for me and its my issue not theirs.

I also believe everyone sits somewhere on the scale between 100% homosexual and 100% hetrosexual and in most cases your sexuality is a function of who you are and not a choice.

They should have the same rights as hetrosexual couples I am completely in agreeance with this.

Why? Clearly you're a rational being on the issue. You should be comfortable about being in their presence. Their not going to slip their doodle in your bottom if you turn your back.

 

[Shooting Brake]

...will save the planet.

As far as I'm concerned the more people that can satisfy their primal urges without procreating the better! There are far too many people on this planet and it is only going to get worse if people don't start using the back door more often.

Queens are green!

 

[edgie]

I used to work with a gay guy from Broken Hill (the less said about him the better, couldn't stand him) who said something along the same lines. Apparently there was a McDonalds out there (this was about 10 years ago) where most of the managers were lesbians.

I'm thinking that. A lot of posters in this thread seem to only think about gay people as being guys, like they have never walked in to a full blown dyke convention before. Not that that should change anyones opinion of homosexuality cause that would be a double standard.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Having a good laugh at all the 'political correctness gone mad!' bogans in this thread.

You can either be accepting of homosexuality or not accepting of homosexuality. One of these positions is not harmful to others who are doing nothing to hurt anybody else by their actions, and the other one of these positions is harmful to others who are doing nothing to hurt anybody else by their actions. So yes, there is a 'right' answer.

I have no issues with it.

Although my opinion that homosexuality is a mental disorder

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wat?

 

[Ben the Gooner]

wat?

I suppose you could mount an argument that it's a genetic mental condition which impedes the most primal human function (reproducing to pass one's genetic material on). The term "mental disorder" has a very negative connotation but from a purely technical and scientific standpoint I guess it's an argument you could mount.

In practise though, anyone who has any problems with it is generally a moron.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Well one of the primal functions of men is to be hunters, so I guess that means any male vegetarian must have a mental disorder too.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

Tecnically speaking, yes.

It's not an opinion that holds up to anything but a purely technical analysis.

 

[edgie]

Well one of the primal functions of men is to be hunters, so I guess that means any male vegetarian must have a mental disorder too.

You can hunt something without eating it.

 

[Schulzenfest]

I've never hunted something in my life. Should I contact the Australian Psychological Society to seek help?

 

[gazzas army]

Pretty much this. As long as they dont become outspoken, demanding the world give them everything when no one really gives a shit.

same, I couldnt care less, but I will say that I find overt campness childish and annoying, because it seems to stem from immaturity!

 

[The_Reaper]

Having a good laugh at all the 'political correctness gone mad!' bogans in this thread.

You can either be accepting of homosexuality or not accepting of homosexuality. One of these positions is not harmful to others who are doing nothing to hurt anybody else by their actions, and the other one of these positions is harmful to others who are doing nothing to hurt anybody else by their actions. So yes, there is a 'right' answer.



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wat?

And how is a private opinion on homosexuals effect anyone?

Also how exactly is not having gay marriage a violation of human rights?
Homosexual partners should have the same rights in regards to inheritance, pensions, dependents etc as heterosexual partners.
If they do have these same rights than how is it harmful?

There are a lot of real injustices in the world and real discrimination and it is an insult to them to suggest that gay marriage is equivalent.