WHat makes gays different?

Question

There's a lot of things people do in their bedroom but nobody else has parades about it. I meen there's not the women's shoe sniffer pride parade, or sheep lover pride, or a beet up my husband with a hot hair curler pride.

And why does their weirdness come up every conversation. I meen, we were talking about our favorite smells. Everyone was saying ginger cookies, vanilla, lavendar, then the gay chick brings up the smell of her girlfriends down under. Man, everyone's smelled that. Why only the gay thinks it needs public mention and is more pleasent than ginger bread?

And she says, "Smells like strawberries." Then you can just say you like the smell of strawberries and not give us a glimpse into your messed up personal life. No.

Anyways, first guy, we all know they do that, but that's not giving me much insight here. THanks.

Oh, and Zero COol. I'm talking about normal gay people. Anyone who thinks the way they do the nasty defines, "Who and what they are," is suffering from some really serious pathologies.

I'm not such a bigot I think most gay people are that sick, so keep your weird bigotries to yourself.

Mike G, thanks for the insights, man. Honestly, straight people don't do that so much except in an environment your expecting it. Not at work.

Anyways, dude, you really think shoe sniffers and sheep lovers aren't arrested? Sheep love is still illegal, which makes no sense to me 'cause, I can eat it, but not love it. Come on?

Okay people, and you being logical folks of course realize the gay girl example was one example of like a million, but I dind't type the million cause of space. Right?

Here's another example. A dude comes into the bank he works in, with a shirt that says Queer and Here. Hundred people work in the bank. Nobody ever came in with a shirt that says, "My Wife Dresses Up Like Raggedy Ann and I Whip Her With THe Phone WIre and Here."

Okay, right now Joe N is making the most sense.

Mike G. making sense to, except when he implied public acceptance of shoe sniffing sheep love. Not sure where my brother got that from. I think a lot of work needs to be done on pushing forward for tolerance of the sheep love. Maybe our grandkids will see the day.

Wanna thank Angel for pretty much ignoring the question in favor of a historical recap, as well as using a racial epithet for white rural people. Let go of the hate, sister.

Answer 1

It's not something particular to gays, it's just human nature. When you feel different and awkward about something you try to diffuse the tension by making a show of it. A guy I know gets quite bad acne, and if he has a massive spot he always mentions it to you first, because he'd rather it was out in the open than people were sitting there trying not to look at it.

Your lesbian friend is just trying to get a reaction, and win approval through shocking humour. Because being gay (and being proud to be gay) has been, and remains, controversial, it's both good for laughs and something you don't want hanging over you. That's why Will & Grace is funny, and that's why twenty years ago comedies which concentrated on black identity were funny. It was controversial, so it was funny and worth listening to, and also served a social purpose by normalising the condition.

Just as nowadays you don't get much comedy like Chris Rock's early stuff, and Fresh Prince, in a few years Will & Grace will seem quaint as well.

Answer 2

I applaud you for living a in a world that all hertosexuals make no reference to sex, never tell sexually oriented jokes or generally discuss their prowess. I think you are just hyper-senstitive to the gay issue. IF it was a straight guy you said his girlfriends down under you would still have found it revolting but would have quickly forgot it.

Do I think that the Homosexual community goes overboard at times? Absolutely. As a gay male it embarrasses me. I do understand why though. When was the last time that the shoe sniffer or sheep lover was publically ridiculed, arrested, beaten or killed? The hertosexual community has brought some of this on themselves.

Answer 3

Gay people couldn't have pride in who or what they are for the longest time due to societal hostility and discrimination. Now that they live in a more tolerant time and atmosphere, they have a lot of pride to express that they hadn't been able to before.

No one has told shoe sniffers that they're subhuman and mentally diseased. And no one has told them that they CAN'T be proud or have a parade. And hey, if criminals (animal rapists and people who commit aggravated assault) feel like having a parade for themselves, who's gunna stop them? They might be arrested for announcing to the world that they engage in violent crimes, but whatever.

And yeah, I think that's a SUPER idea... form an opinion of ALL gay people based on what one rude person said once. Uh huh... I'm sure it was a truly representative sample.

Answer 4

So, you equate the comments of one boor to the attitudes of all GLBT people? That's logical. You've NEVER heard a straight person say something like that? Certainly you don't get out much.

And EVERY conversation? I'm wondering what sort of people you hang with.

I don't think you hang out with the upper crust. And you don't seem to be influenced vy the more educated of the world. Perhaps you simply hang around crude people, and you are therefore experiencing crude behavior. Like attracts like, whether it's the gays or the straights.

Personally, I hear lots of crude comments from both communities.

Oh, lest you imagine I forget...

The purpose of gay pride parades is to show that GLBT people are indeed part of the world. It is to demonstrate that there are many of us. It is to indicate that we demand a certain amount of recognition from society. It is a means of asserting our identities and to acknowledge that we are not alone. It is a symbol to GLBT folk that they aren't alone and that as a group we have some power.

Some take it as an opportunity to try to shock people. That's their right.

The problem is that there are certain straight people who are incredibly narrow. They believe that one gay person exhibiting a particular behavior is representative of all. With their puny minds they can't comprehend that as a sick straight person doesn't represent all straights, so shouldn't the odd homosexual. Small minds think small thoughts.

Answer 5

lower back then, human beings have been very lax approximately who they have been having intercourse with. rather, the human beings who have been married weren't rather fanatics, they have been greater like business employer companions. The definition of marriage has replaced for the reason that then. human beings now marry for romance. confident, there's a small area of it that has to do with money, however the money area is for the phobia of if between the significant other dies, and there is not any longer something to help us by a time it quite is difficult sufficient because it quite is. Why could it remember as quickly as we'd opt to marry? does not or no longer that is a joyous social gathering for the church to have gay human beings waiting to carry on with the guideline of saving your self till after marriage?

Answer 6

Well, maybe you don't really know what her girlfriend smells like! lol
Perhaps she has something going on we don't know about!

I think that what we are seeing is a backlash. For years the Gay Community has been persecuted, and they are quite militant about it in many cases. It's to be expected. When the Christian protestants were being persecuted by the Roman Catholics, they too rose to backlash against the Papal Church. And rightly so.

Answer 7

I guess gays like to make sure everyone knows they are gay. A man and woman can kiss in public no flinchs but two woman or man and everyone is like OMG

Answer 8

Gee, you picked a great representitive *rolls eyes* Good idea, form an opinion on a huge group of people on what one "uncouth" person said..

And your basically saying we straight people make no referance to sex...yeah right..

Answer 9

I agree with Zero Cool. They have been laughed at, criticized and made to feel mentally ill. They have been denied employment, beaten and killed by rednecks.

Answer 10

Gays aren't weird. It isn't some little perversion, it's a natural state of being.