Discuss privilege from the POV of homosexuals vs. heterosexuals?
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Do your own homework. You're a college student. Don't be lazy and tell us to do your work for you. I mean, what if your professor finds out you're getting your ideas from Yahoo Answers and fails you? You're a big girl. DIY.
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Interesting article indeed. I do agree with you in the sense that it is not a choice- it is only explainable by they way a person FEELS or thinks, not by the way he WANTS to think. I hate people who hate people with different sexual orientations- they dont have a right to judge people by their feelings and preferences, although i dont have a gay/lesbian friend in person.
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If you were both blind, would you know the differences between you (other than maybe an accent!).\n\nI have talked with people on the phone who had assumed that because I sound white, I'm white and must automatically agree with their views and their prejudices on racial matters.\nOther other side, I have talked with none whites who assume because I sound white I am and therefore have the selection of prejudices they 'assume' I have on these things.\n\nI deeply resent those assumptions from both sides. No one gave anyone the right to assume to spreak for me, or to assume anything for me.\n\nI have listened to Black people talk and have heard their colour / racial prejudices, just I have with Brown people (Indian / Asian men seem to love their women to have 'light' skin tones...!).\n\nI have had none-white colleagues and friends who have shared the same tastes as me, liked the same books, films and activities ...and sometimes the same taste in female compansionship too. I once had none white girlfriend too.\n\nI suspect that your colleague who said "whites / blacks could never be 100% honest friends because were too different," was speaking about / for herself.\n\nPersonally I get pi***d off whenever I hear someone speak on 'behalf of others in such broad sweeping statements'.... and WITHOUT their permissions to do so.\n\nRegards.\nSash.
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"Oh, did you have sex with me?" or "I don't know what it's like to be gay, obviously you do...maybe YOU have something to confess?" or "Prove it".\n\nThen don't let them bother you, people like that are idiots.
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I could care less either way.  I'm in a great heterosexual marriage.  I love every min of it.  Now who am I to deny the same pleasures to a couple of the same sex?  What if my neighbors were in a same sex marriage?  It wouldn't really affect me.  It's not like I'm forced to partake in thier daily life.
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Interesting. I do believe homosexuals are wired differently than heterosexuals. (on a sexual level, anyway) I don't know if I'd call it a defect from a secualar view. \n\nI remember research from several years ago that showed a gay male's hyperthalamous (sp? part in the brain that controls the sexuality) was more simular to a straight woman's than a straight male.
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Is heterosexuality a race? A lifestyle? An instinct or a choice?\nYou ask [us] about wanting rights, yet you already have your own. Do/would you feel the same about blacks, asians, etc.?\n\nXq28 is believed to be the gene of "the gays", although it isn't quite proven. As for my parents, well, they were clearly heterosexual. Sorry, I've just gotta throw a big "DUH" in there...\n\nFor the record, "gay" is a lifestyle. Being homosexual is not. We do not define our lives by our sexuality (although like the heterosexual community, there are sluts, whores, etc).\n\nLet's say we stripped away the rights of heterosexuals, told them their lifestyle was wrong, evil, or an abomination... Wouldn't that make us the monsters? \n\nWhat if you loved someone so much you wanted to bond with them forever, but were told you couldn't because your love was wrong in the eyes of the world -and in the eyes of a god that may or may not exist? \n\nHow would you feel if you have to live your life as a lie, pretending to be something you know you aren't? Does that make you wrong, immoral, or evil? How would it feel to live a life where you would potentially fear being beaten or beaten to death because you love someone, or because you had an extra skip in your step, or any other stereotype you can fill-in here?\n\nWhere's the proof that heterosexuality is better? Where does it say we don't have the right to live, to pursue our happiness?! What religion or reason could drive a man to foresake his lover?\n\nHomosexuality is not a crime against man or nature.\n\nFrom an evolutionary standpoint, homosexuality is nature's population control.\n\nFor heterosexual guys who hate homosexual guys I ask this: What the f#c% are you worried about? Not every homosexual man is out to nail you. Believe me, there are some ugly MFs out there, and you are definitely not what we're looking for. Besides, if we're out chasing other gay men, there's more pu$$y for you to fight over! So WTF?! Lighten up, get over yourselves, and move on with your life.\n\nFor my lesbian comrades, sorry 'bout that comment...\n\nIn short, "Live and let live."
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I always find it interesting that the classic gay argument in favour of gay parenting is something like, "I suppose it's better for two heterosexual serial killers to raise a child than a nice gay couple!!"\n\nLOL!!!
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I have many friends that are either/or.  They are still good people but have a difference on their sexual outlook.  If they are your friends that is all they have to be nothing more.  I had a male friend who I did not know was gay and when he told me after 5 years of friendship I was only upset because he didn't tell me.  I told him I still loved him the same and we were best friends for many more years after that.  Some people are very mean when it comes to that.
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I think your counselor is being fair. He/She has an open mind. It cannot be denied that homosexuality does exist in today's society. The counselor is just encouraging you to have an open mind on these issues. He/She is not necessarily encouraging you to delve into homosexuality, or into adultery. Nor is the counselor condemning these as well. By keeping this balance, the counselor is just implying that these issues are indeed present, and that people should not judge anyone at all. For we were never given the right to judge others. That right belongs to a higher power.
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Sounds like such a dilemma lol. Gays have to look at somethin, right?
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I love when people speaks of equal rights...(this is discrimination against a sector of the population) (I do not believe people choose to be gay, hated, beaten and have to hide themselves)\n\n(we just ask for the rights of marriage, they can call it the forsaken union for all I care)\n\nIn our politically correct society maybe I should not be referred to as gay (I am not always happy)....hetrohandicapped... (they could give us a special sticker and a good parking place)
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Based on what you've said I will take a guess and think you are heterosexual.  You can't use your heterosexual idea of sex and try to understand homosexual activity.  For example, gay couples do not think one plays the "guy" role and the other plays the "female" role because they are both of the same sex...therefore they both play the same role.  Sexual orientation has nothing to do with social behavior.
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Since most people are straight, I think that is assumed unless told otherwise.\n\nWhy people care about someone's private life is beyond me, unless there the only way they can feel good abot themselves is by dtahinking that they are better then people that are not straight.
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The Nature vs Nurture arguments are still raging on this topic.\n\nI think there is pretty good evidence that most gay people feel they were born that way.  I think that some people my choose a gay path due to their environment, but that is much rarer.
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HONEY, WHO CARES IF YOU ARE GAY.  MORE POWER TO YOU FOR BEING HONEST WITH YOURSELF.  I AM A STRAIGHT WHITE FEMALE, BUT I ADORE THE OPENESS OF ANYONE WHO IS HAPPY.
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I agree it may be easier in the sense of dominate and passive issues that men and women face. In as much; it can be equally challenging if not more worse because of cultural limitations. Gays generally don't show openly affection to each others as their counterparts. Gays, are not allowed to marry; which in itself can cause all sorts of family problems if the other becomes sick. Gays are not allowed as much as straights in regards to health benefits and insurance. Gays aren't afforded the same courtesy that heterosexual get on a daily bases. These facts commingled with the challenge people have in general relationships can make being in a gay relationship very hard.