The question should be: why do you get so offended when called gay? Hmmm...????
you are gay if you say to another boy he is handsome
Perhaps because labeling people only because of their sexual preferences is not good and is the first steap towards discrimination?
<<Perhaps because labeling people only because of their sexual preferences is not good and is the first steap towards discrimination? >>
The answer to that is not to do away with labeling however. Labeling is a necessary aspect of living. Everything you know of has some kind of label attached to it (love, family, television, book, tree, food, friends, etc).
The area of focus here is the desire to discriminate. You cannot eradicate people's innate desire to discriminate (if they have one) by taking away labels. That's not the answer.
The answer to that is not to do away with labeling however. Labeling is a necessary aspect of living. Everything you know of has some kind of label attached to it (love, family, television, book, tree, food, friends, etc).
The area of focus here is the desire to discriminate. You cannot eradicate people's innate desire to discriminate (if they have one) by taking away labels. That's not the answer.
<<<<Perhaps because labeling people only because of their sexual preferences is not good and is the first steap towards discrimination? >> >>
Nor can you automatically assume that by labeling, people will therefore discriminate.
What you in effect are doing yourself is a form of discrimination.
(This is a typical human tendency: unwittingly condemning self by [and at the same time as] condemning others)
Nor can you automatically assume that by labeling, people will therefore discriminate.
What you in effect are doing yourself is a form of discrimination.
(This is a typical human tendency: unwittingly condemning self by [and at the same time as] condemning others)
It's not innate. It's imposed by culture. Probably if people wasn't taught that men who like men are called gays they wouldn't need a name to label them.
<<It's not innate. It's imposed by culture. Probably if people wasn't taught that men who like men are called gays they wouldn't need a name to label them. >>
It is innate.
It's culture that sometimes weakens and desensitizes people's innate and lower natures. This is a good thing though.
<Probably if people wasn't taught that men who like men are called gays they wouldn't need a name to label them.>
Um, excuse me, but I thought that the definition of being a gay man was that they like other men. ???. So what do *you* call them?
It is innate.
It's culture that sometimes weakens and desensitizes people's innate and lower natures. This is a good thing though.
<Probably if people wasn't taught that men who like men are called gays they wouldn't need a name to label them.>
Um, excuse me, but I thought that the definition of being a gay man was that they like other men. ???. So what do *you* call them?
but, there are even more bisexual men than gay men, so it could be acceptable.
What a ridiculous thread this is to be sure. Have you not got better things to do with your time than to devote so much of it discussing an issue like this? If you're gay, fine. If you're not gay, fine. It's nobody's business except the people concerned. Deal with it, shut up and run back home to mummy....it's way past your bedtimes.
It's obvious that *you*, guest with lower case G, needs to read the rule-book of life.
There are no rules, only subjectivity.
There are no rules, only subjectivity.
Nobody is realist. Our dreams, fears, passions, ambitions, etc, influx on our perception of reality. hence nobody is realist. We get a distorted version of the reality always.
So you believe in solipsism? We all see reality equally; we just don't want to.