Why does the word straight mean heterosexual.?

Question

Homosexuals are straighter than too many messedup and confused heterosexuals.Do they try to tell us we are crooked for being homoes.If a homosexual is not straight a hetero caused him or her to do unstraight things.

Answer 1

They say straight to make them sound normal or functioning properly. Like a tree for instance. Its one of the many ways hetros try to make themselves feel "right" or "normal". Ever heard of the term "lets set things straight". I personally don't like the name straight at all.

It might have something to do with sex positions as well.

Answer 2

"straight" is short for "straight and narrow". please read:
In New England towns before there were funds for jails and other municipal structures, a drunk person or other felon would be sentenced by the local constable, who worked out of his home but lived, like everyone else in farming towns just starting to sprout , near the local blacksmith, usually a strong guy. anyway, the felon would be sentenced for 30 days or so to walk back and forth between constable and blacksmith abodes. after 30 days of this , he wouldn't want to do it again, so people so redeemed and others who lead an honest life, would be referred to as living or staying on the straight and narrow path. It comes from the resultant furrow in the ground made by sentenced felons . OR

: Comes from Matthew 7:14. In the King James version of the Bible, published in 1611, he says: 'Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth to life'. The old English word strait meant tight or narrow but when it went out of use the phrase changed to 'STRAIGHT and narrow'.

and since organized religion decrees that proper sex is between a man and a woman and anything else is sinful and damnable to hell. so heterosexuals are following the "straight and narrow path deemed by God" and homosexuals are condemed.

Answer 3

Because straight means normal or typical. Like it or not the sex act is designed for procreation first and pleasure or love second. While it may not be fair or correct to say that homosexuality is abnormal or unnatural, there is no doubt that heterosexuality is normal, regular, common and definately natural.

Let's face it. If the world were left to homosexuals the human race would go extinct. That's not exactly straight shooting.

Answer 4

I guess cause another word for homosexual is bent.

I think it just comes from the fact homosexuals are seem to not coform to covention and have gone off the path were as str8 people tend to be percieved as normal and on the str8 path???

Answer 5

individually, we may be messed up, but that is regardless of whether we are homos or heteros...
homo means one
hetero means two or both
but in this term, homo means we'll like to have sex with the same gender... and hetero can actually mean, sex with both genders... but its sort of a colliqual language one could say.

so pls stop judging which category is messed up, as induviduals, it doesnt matter which category that makes us messed up, common sense, in other words, think before you ask a stupid question, or rephrase it without insulting your own parents!

Answer 6

Because the English say that homosexuals are "bent".

Answer 7

Not deviated.

In other words bent means deviated or a deviant.
Straight was then applied to everyone else.

Answer 8

unfortunately yes it does mean straight but i think a better term should be blind

Answer 9

It implies that if anyone is going straight to hell, you know who will reach there first :-P