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Topic	Straight people: Do you think there is something wrong with gay people?
Esrac 03/27/18 5:36:42 AM #76:	Dash_Harber posted... Esrac posted... Men preferring women, even having a particular type, isn't especially aberrant behavior. It'd have to be a pretty radical and specific preference. Men preferring other men is aberrant behaviour, by definition, when only ~4% or less of the population (in the US in this case) is homosexual. I don't think many men have only one specific type of woman they're willing to sleep with. It just seems weird when that definition would put a metric fuckton of common activities under the term aberrant, not to mention that it is sort of an inherently negatively loaded term. Esrac posted... When answering the question "Do you think there is something wrong with gay people?", I think voicing my personal feelings about gay people is appropriate in that context. It might be a weird comment if the topic were about something unrelated. The point is not that you are voicing your opinion, the point is that you first thought is, "I'd find them having sex disgusting". Like, I don't ascribe to Christianity, but when someone asks for my opinion I don't go, "Well, the idea of two married Christians having monogamous sex really grosses me out! But they can do what they want". It's sort of the whole weird, "Not that there is anything wrong with it" awkward response ala Seinfeld. Homosexual behavior is aberrant. By definition. If using words that correctly describe something is weird to you, I don't know what to tell you. Yes, the word can also be applied to other activities. Though probably not "common activities", because common suggests the activities are prevalent and typical in the given population. That would mean they probably aren't aberrant, since that world specifically refers to things that are atypical/abnormal. Ok. You observe that my immediate response to the sight of two men engaging in homosexual activities is reflexive disgust. What's your point? That isn't, by any means, an unusual reaction and is extremely common, regardless of levels of prejudice. The same response isn't typical of seeing hetersexual displays of affection. Your comparison isn't really valid. --- http://steamcommunity.com/id/Esrac/wishlist/ <cite>Esrac posted [p:898568761] in Straight p... [t:76456798]...</cite> <quote><cite>Dash_Harber posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Esrac posted...</cite> <quote>Men preferring women, even having a particular type, isn't especially aberrant behavior. It'd have to be a pretty radical and specific preference. Men preferring other men is aberrant behaviour, by definition, when only ~4% or less of the population (in the US in this case) is homosexual. I don't think many men have only one specific type of woman they're willing to sleep with. </quote> It just seems weird when that definition would put a metric fuckton of common activities under the term aberrant, not to mention that it is sort of an inherently negatively loaded term. <cite>Esrac posted...</cite> <quote> When answering the question "Do you think there is something wrong with gay people?", I think voicing my personal feelings about gay people is appropriate in that context. It might be a weird comment if the topic were about something unrelated.</quote> The point is not that you are voicing your opinion, the point is that you first thought is, "I'd find them having sex disgusting". Like, I don't ascribe to Christianity, but when someone asks for my opinion I don't go, "Well, the idea of two married Christians having monogamous sex really grosses me out! But they can do what they want". It's sort of the whole weird, "Not that there is anything wrong with it" awkward response ala Seinfeld.</quote> Homosexual behavior is aberrant. By definition. If using words that correctly describe something is weird to you, I don't know what to tell you. Yes, the word can also be applied to other activities. Though probably not "common activities", because common suggests the activities are prevalent and typical in the given population. That would mean they probably aren't aberrant, since that world specifically refers to things that are atypical/abnormal. Ok. You observe that my immediate response to the sight of two men engaging in homosexual activities is reflexive disgust. What's your point? That isn't, by any means, an unusual reaction and is extremely common, regardless of levels of prejudice. The same response isn't typical of seeing hetersexual displays of affection. Your comparison isn't really valid. --- http://steamcommunity.com/id/Esrac/wishlist/</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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