I was talking with a gay co-worker and I saw the heading 'If there was a pill that would turn you straight, would you take it' on what he was reading on his PC. So I asked him whether he would take such a pill, and he laughed and said that would be like exchanging a ferrari for a bicycle. I wanted to ask him why, but we were interrupted by someone else and he closed what he'd been watching. I didn't pursue the question later.
I mean it's ok to be gay since that's how you're born, but wouldn't being straight be better? ( sorry if sounds offensive )
2006-10-10 16:47:30 · 20 answers · asked by Nero M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Adolescence is a difficult time. I was asked on various occasions if I could ride a time machine back to my adolescent years to do them over again, what would I do? My answer is almost always, I wouldn't go. To go through those stages of rediscovery as I morphed from butterfly (childhood) to caterpillar (adolescence) was hard enough the first time.
I was confident of my "orientation" but there were those who insisted that I had to be one of them (they didn't quite use the term gay at that time, we commonly called them queer or worse). The recruitment is amazing. For all the talk about being born that way, there sure are a lot of evangelists of this different path out there proselytizing young teenagers.
Once there get there, they have a freedom. They don't face the kinds of rejection that they did trying to get the attention of the girls. The girls could be vicious and cruel and play demeaning games with those strange often sissified boys that tried to adopt female mannerisms so clumsily. Would your friend want to go for the kinds of baggage and rejection of obtaining female companionship and sexual release when there is a crowd of men who are more than willing to drop everything and do or be done to? Not likely. Besides, they have acquired the taste. It reminds me of beer, the stuff tastes, to me like it looks--a urine sample, but loads of people would prefer it to almost any beverage out there. Would they trade their Bud for my Pepsi? Not on your life. Go back to when they first drank it though, they thought it pretty awful then too. Why would your friend want to be straight? As if women folk were such easy catches. Frankly, your friend has the example backwards, he would need the Ferrari to catch a girl, while he could catch another man of his sort with a bicycle that had no wheels.
2006-10-10 17:07:50 · answer #1 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why don't straight people want to turn back gay? I mean it's OK to be straight since that's how you were born, but wouldn't being gay be better?
By turning your question around, I hope I have shown how offensive it is.
You also have a logical error. At one point you acknowledge that people are born gay [correct]. But earlier you ask if people want to "turn back straight" - which presumes that the same people started off straight in the first place. Sorry, only the former is correct.
2006-10-11 05:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question!
Great answer Mrdav76!
Yes, I think being straight would be "better" one less thing for people to be stupid about and hate each other over I guess. Odd thing is I don't know if I would take the pill or not. I am who I am BECAUSE I am gay. If I did not experience life from my personal perspective as it is now, I would simply not be me. I like me. I don't think I "like" being gay, does someone "like" being straight? It is who you are, you don't choose it. No one makes you gay or recruits you or "turns" you gay.
I spent the first 20+ years of my life crying myself to sleep at night praying to not be gay, for God to make me straight. Then it finally occurred to me, that if God answers prayer like I believe He does, then He has a reason. So I changed it around and gave it all to Him. Gay, straight, whatever, I just want to be the best person I can be, love, live, treat people right, and help more than I hurt. No pill can fix what aint broke... and I don't really like pills and drug stuff anyway :)
2006-10-10 17:58:38 · answer #3 · answered by mylifeisadream 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Although I have been with guys, I have never ever been straight, I have always loved women, what is there to go back to? I don't get it. Why do people think we were straight before we found out we were gay? And no, straight would not be better because that would be living a lie for me. Peace.
2006-10-12 06:33:39 · answer #4 · answered by spiritcavegrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know what he meant by that but I wouldn't take a pill to be straight. Being gay has shaped me into the person that I am today. If I was straight, I'd be a whole different person.
2006-10-10 16:57:31 · answer #5 · answered by JR 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
okay think of this. If you bought a car and it was the colour blue. Would you take it back or change the colour if most of your friends said it would look better in black?
I was born gay and it's just how i am. I'm not going to change the way god made me just because there are people out their that would be happier if gay people didn't exist.
2006-10-10 16:57:01 · answer #6 · answered by angelic_devil30 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm straight, and that would be like asking me if it would be better being gay. Why would I want to be something I'm not? Why would a gay person want to be something they're not?
I imagine if there were any pill that a gay would take, it would not be one to change who they are, but one that could make people accept them for who they are.
2006-10-10 17:11:32 · answer #7 · answered by dave 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm different because I'm different. I've searched out answers to why I'm different and continue to. My search for knowledge has lead me to become more enlightened about the history of differences and how societies react to people different from them. If I wasn't gay, I'd probably be like my brother, a promiscuous, early father whom can't or barely can support himself. I'd be different.
My sexuality, while only a small part of me, changes my outlook on life, if I gave that up for easy, well what does that may of me?
2006-10-10 21:16:46 · answer #8 · answered by meikaai 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would straight be better? He's had to work hard to become comfortable with himself. To him, being with a man is the ultimate. Straight is better for *you*, and that's great, but it's not better for everyone. What would be better is mutual respect and tolerance.
I'm 50/50 bi and think there are sleek sports models and clunkers in both genders. :-)
2006-10-10 16:53:46 · answer #9 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it might be easier to be hetero (since you wouldn't have to face homophobic people) but, I would not want to be straight becuase that would mean I would change who I am. I like being gay because it is who I am.
I would not take the pill
2006-10-10 16:52:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋