i'm sick of having to be "one or the other" just so that other people will understand. you must be gay or straight, is one i encounter the most, why? why cant it be accepted that sometimes i feel things and experience emotions i cant explain, but i dont want to have to ignore them, i act on them. im sick of people saying to me - you must be gay, you kissed a guy, two girls can kiss each other, and people dont think they are gay, its so double standard. why cant people just accept sometimes people do stuff just because they feel like it!
2007-07-11 05:49:42 · 2 answers · asked by llamarse 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I think most people do accept that people do things mostly because they feel like it.
The problem is that we are living in an info-bite culture that for some reason rewards the number-crunching boneheads who dream up things to research statistics about. Because of this we are being shepherded towards ways of thinking that emphasise absolute notions such as gay or straight that do nothing to allow for human differences and the grey areas in the middle.
2007-07-11 05:57:18 · answer #1 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the more useful aspects of human intelligence is the ability to generalize and to handle a large number of similar situations/things/ideas as a single one. This is also one of our biggest problems as it leads to what you're describing along with racism, sexism etc...
2007-07-11 12:57:25 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋