The Homosexuality Discussion Thread

[Famine]

Whenever I debate with someone who thinks being gay is wrong, I compare homosexuality to being left handed - it's not the most common outcome, but it's completely natural, it's how you're born, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

And if you were born before the mid 1950s, it was savagely beaten "out" of you.

I was the first openly left-handed member of my family. My mum, born in 1940, was a natural leftie, but that sort of thing wasn't allowed in that day and age, and every time she picked up a writing implement in her left hand she got smashed across the knuckles for it (at best).

My nephew was the second leftie. My eldest shows signs of left-ness (we played an entirely left-handed game of badminton the other week because she showed some talent on that side - that was fun), while my youngest is pretty much bi-manual. Since we're more progressive and liberal these days, they can write how they want to and we'll support them.

 

[afbarnes]

It's fine as long as you don't use your left hand in public.

I mean, we wouldn't want little children aspiring to be left handed, would we?

Well I've seen hundreds of right handed people on TV and on the street and that hasn't made me right handed

 

[Pseudopod]

Probably because you hold so much pride in being left handed. Kids are much more impressionable.

 

[Dennisch]

Well I've seen hundreds of right handed people on TV and on he street and that hasn't made me right handed

When did you make the decision to be a filthy lefty?

Can I invite you, perhaps with some force, to go to a right hand conversion camp?

 

[afbarnes]

When did you make the decision to be a filthy lefty?

Can I invite you, perhaps with some force, to go to a right hand conversion camp?

whoa nothing filthy with being a lefty.

and i won't got to one of those camps thank you very much, thank you for the invite anyway

 

[Joel]

Since we're more progressive and liberal these days, they can write how they want to and we'll support them.

Left hand, right hand, it's all write with me!

 

[afbarnes]

See why can't politicians just see it like this???

 

[Dennisch]

All jokes aside, it's pretty backwards to think that people actually still behave like this.

About being gay of course. Lefties can still all bugger off.

 

[afbarnes]

All jokes aside, it's pretty backwards to think that people actually still behave like this.

About being gay of course. Lefties can still all bugger off.

I know it's unfortunate that they still do..

 

[Joel]

I write and throw a baseball with my right hand, but I swing a golf club, baseball bat, and play hockey lefty. What does that make me?

 

[GranTurismo guy]

All jokes aside, it's pretty backwards to think that people actually still behave like this.

About being gay of course. Lefties can still all bugger off.

I think we should let famine stay. He could be useful.

 

[Dennisch]

I write and throw a baseball with my right hand, but I swing a golf club, baseball bat, and play hockey lefty. What does that make me?

A freak.

 

[afbarnes]

I write and throw a baseball with my right hand, but I swing a golf club, baseball bat, and play hockey lefty. What does that make me?

Ambidextrous? or is that you can do anything with both your hands?

 

[Joel]

It's actually called bidexual.

 

[afbarnes]

It's actually called bidexual.

You learn something new everyday!

 

[Joel]

that's not true I was just taking the piss

 

[afbarnes]

that's not true I was just taking the piss

oh..

 

[Pseudopod]

What if you can use both hands, but choose to use just the right because of society's expectations and fear of discrimination...

Does that make m.. i mean them, cowards?

 

[PeterJB]

I'm telekinetic and don't use my hands for anything, does that make me adexual?

 

[Danny]

Here's a neat study from the late 70s (on the cusp of the AIDS epidemic) on what happens once someone's chosen to be gay. They do, by the way. It's a choice.

It's fascinating from a time-period standpoint.👍

An increased sense of identity, however, does not necessarily guarantee commitment to that identity. Similarly, increased happiness resulting from a firmer sense of identity does not warrant the presupposition that the newly-acquired identity is necessarily the most highly valued one for that person. A compromise might well be involved. In certain instances, any conception of an identity might be viewed as an improvement over no sense of identity, or over feelings of ambiguity and uncertainty regarding and identity. Some males could feel happier after defining themselves as homosexual, and yet remain convinced that they would be even more contented living as heterosexuals. Therefore to be judged as committed, the homosexual should value homosexuality at least as much as, and perhaps more than, the bisexual or heterosexual alternatives, and elect to remain homosexual if faced with the opportunity to abandon it.

 

[TenEightyOne]

You learn something new everyday!

It's actually called bidexual.

Not true, unfortunately

As a leftie I was forced by schooling to use my right hand for writing until I was 8... that's one of the things I blame for my awful handwriting. That and the left-handedness itself. Still can't write joined-up

 

[Pseudopod]

Good thing all this writing stuff is made irrelevant by computers.

 

[KSaiyu]

Not true, unfortunately

As a leftie I was forced by schooling to use my right hand for writing until I was 8... that's one of the things I blame for my awful handwriting. That and the left-handedness itself. Still can't write joined-up

Wish I had that excuse.

I was forced to go to a handwriting class after I had the audacity to use my left hand for a couple of weeks while my right recovered from a torn ligament.

Catholic schools

 

[Johnnypenso]

I actually feel bad for you lefties. Growing up in Canada this wasn't even a thing as far as I knew. I bat and play hockey left handed but right with the right, and knew plenty of left handed kids growing up.

 

[Daniel]

I wonder what the world would be like if 'lefty' was used as an insult like 'gay'.

"Wow, those shoes make you look like such a lefty."

"Haha what a dork, I bet you secretly write with your left hand."

 

[TenEightyOne]

I wonder what the world would be like if 'lefty' was used as an insult like 'gay'.

"Wow, those shoes make you look like such a lefty."

"Haha what a dork, I bet you secretly write with your left hand."

I can honestly say that bisexuality has caused me far less embarrassment publicly or privately than my left-handedness ever has

 

[Mike458]

Sorry if I am late to the party, but I was on the Internet and I found this: http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW Comics/bw/index.htm

Kill me now.

 

[Pseudopod]

You're better off using a marvel comic as your moral compass rather than that thing.

 

[Mike458]

You're better off using a marvel comic as your moral compass rather than that thing.

I don't know what they were thinking when they were creating that comic. What were they smoking when they made it?

 

[Pseudopod]

Bible pages, probably.

hang on a second, i know that would technically be like burning the bible, but at the same time, you're also getting high on jesus so it's all good