Forums → WEPR → Homosexuality

But so is "gay."

I figure "the n word" is just as offensive as "blackie."

i dont have much of a problem with them they kust make me feel uncomfortable when i am near them. its just really strange to be sitting behind 2 guys makin out on a bus

Yes, it can be awkward. But so would sitting next a black guy on a bus when you're related to a KKK member. You have no problem sitting next to this guy, but you know that you're relative would walk instead of sitting there.

i know it can be kind of awkward being around gay people...i know its happened to me when i was completely straight, you just gotta ignore them and go on with your business

Well when you go into detail like that yeah it seems sick but not all gay, bi people do that well they do but it doesnt affect you. I wont do that now cause it seems sick but it i like saying would you DO a girl DD well you wouls say yes but not now cause it is sick and for me I will get married to a guy or girl and it is what I want.

Ralphaturtle's post on the previous page brings up a point actually, about societal double-standards. A friend of mine (who professes to be homosexual) recently noted that he didn't figure that there was a problem with people disapproving of two guys/two girls making out in public (though I facetiously add that two girls is apparently somewhat acceptable within normal social discourse, especially if all parties concerned are drunk and the video goes on youtube later...you chauvinists :P)

However I then pointed out that it appeared somewhat less unacceptable that heterosexual couples flagrantly express their carnal desires (to the limit of the law) because while people may disapprove of the reckless behavior, it is much more 'normal'.

So ask yourself! Are you being uneasy at the two guys pashing on the bus behind you because they're two guys, or because you don't like any form of public pashing?

It's okay to say the former so long as you don't use this as the basis for some moral stance: "I am disturbed therefore they shouldn't be doing that". Displays of sexual/intimate activity that we're used to associating with the bedroom and other private areas of our lives are confrontational if it is being shoved in our faces, but I'd say that we're simply desensitised to the guy and the girl sprawled all over that park bench where I would have liked to eat my lunch, or something to that effect.

Once again we have someone who has a true grip on life. Strop, I gotta give it to ya: you got this under control.

It is true. No two people, (boy boy; girl girl; boy girl) should be in public feeling each other up.

There is a line of being respectfully affectionate in public and being down right obnoxious. As Strop was saying, it is acceptable to be respectful of those around you, but if two guys/two girls/girl and guy are making out in public (not in a bar, etc) then that is rude to others around.

Naturally many people will be disgusted by man on man but not woman on woman action because people have different tastes completely. I mean part of the issue itself is that many straight people find gay men disgusting and therefore what they do they find disgusting. Its not surprising really. I dont think making out is totally innapropriate in public but it is pushing it a little bit.

I think it really depends on where you are when showing PDA.

yes thats true but in most cases i think its ok to do stuff in public as long as it doesnt exceed first base. Thats where i draw the line.

It really is just one person's opinion over the other. I suppose we should all be respectful though.

Yes its well awkward wen u r sitting on a bus and sum random people are raping each other rite next to u. I sometimes just cough rele loudly and then give them evils and if they say anything call them disgusting filthy animals and then chuck them out of the bus. Not an overeaction at all rele.

Now I am in a texting battle with my landlord on homosexuality. He is trying to preach to me.

lol by text, a strange medium to persuade someone to change their sexual orientation i think it would be more polite face to face