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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Alshrim Dax: [QB] Ok.. Here comes another one of Alshrim's Common Sense posts... for some of you, you know what I'm like!! I don't think you can choose your sexuality. If you're gay.. you're gay.. You don't learn to like the same sex.. it's not like a decision you make - [i]"oh.. I think I'm gonna start looking at men today to see if that gives me kicks !!"[/i] That doesn't happen.. and for those of you who think that... get a helmet, before you fall down and hurt yourself. One can't choose their sexual-orientation like they choose their car or underwear. (sorry.. the sarcasm is just flowing outta me today) At the same time .. (here comes the devil's advocate) people of the gay community (and that's what some of the gay people out there call themselve; which by very nature seperates themselves into distinct society) get way... way too sensitive about their own sexual-orientation. Quit looking at it as something special or different.. [b]IT'S NOT[/b] There are millions of people just like you. My god, there are more blonde jokes out there then gay jokes. Being Canadian, do you know how many time I have to listen to Americans slam the fact that we say "Eh" at the end of a sentence. Like that's most unusual thing we say.. How 'bout when Americans say .. "I'd like to AXEDT you a question. " What's that.. ??? but you don't see us whine about it. I have a friend, one I deeply respect, who just recently told me he was gay. I've known him for about a year, and had always suspected he was gay. I am a bit of a joker .. like to laugh, and sometimes like to say things that some people may be afraid to say in public! Well, I used to talk to this guy, jokingly, in a "gayesque" style voice and manner. And he'd talk back to me the same way.. We'd actually flirt just to be funny... AND I'M NOT GAY.. but nor am I homophobic. When he came out, I told him, I wouldn't insult him by ever stopping the way I was with him. And he laughed at me ... Thanked me .. shook my hand .. and hugged me.. The guy is one of the greatest friends I have. But he never complained .. or whined about how some people perseved his sexual orientation. HE was COMFORTABLE WITH THE FACT THAT HE WAS GAY. I feel for you, man.. really I do. I can only imagine that it can difficult having a sexual-orientation that some people just aren't comfortable with. Don't get me wrong. But when I see this friend of mine facing life as happily as he is .. head held high with pride and comfortable with who is ... I shake my head when people sharing his orientation have to make a statement by telling everyone how pissed they are. If someone is not comfortable with they way you are, man.. big freakin' deal. Make it their loss that they can't get to know who you really are. But by making a big fuss over nothing like this.. people won't care about what their missing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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