I'm straight. No, I don't give a damn if you're gay, bis, trans, asexual, pansexual, whatever. I'm with Alex, though. Don't throw it in my face. I don't run around and beg for straight pride parades. I have many friends who are gay, and they're my friends because they're not running around flaunting it. People who throw it in my face that they're gay, bi, whatever, just piss me off. It's the same way as racism.

Why does it matter what we identify with? Talks like this only further seperate the gap between people. We wouldn't identify races or sexual orientation if people just stopped talking about, and stopped caring about it. There is no difference between a black guy and a white guy. Or a gay guy and a strait guy. Not one lick.

I'd like to quote a book I'm reading for my speech class:

"...Unless you live in a culture that recognizes such differences as significant, they are socially irrelevant and therefore, in a way, do not exist. a "black woman" in Africa, therefore, who has not experienced white racism, does not think of herself as black. African, yes. A women, yes. But not a black woman."

-Johnson, Allen G. "Privilege, oppression, and Difference." Privilege, Power, and Difference. (2nd Ed). New York, NY: Mcgraw-Hill, 2006. p 17. Print.


The same goes for sexuality. If we do not place any significance on what sexuality one prefers, then those sterotypes and bigoted statements would no longer exist.


-Apollo

I agree with this completely.


I don't feel any more seperate from anyone here after learning their sexuality. Do you?

You aren't looking at the statement clearly enough. Only the outer shell of it man. What I'm saying, is that if you don't identify yourself with a certain race or sexuality, then eventually those stigmas surrounding them will dissapear, and it will no longer matter.

In some ways yes, all of a sudden there are things you can't say and things that you try to avoid around these people. Don't misinterpret what I am saying but all of the things you are bringing up are just different ways to classify people.

Notice the name "What race are you?" why would you be asking if it didn't matter to you? If it didn't make a difference to you why would you bring up such flame bait?

Guess what? That's exactly my point. YOU feel that certain social restrictions have been put up after learning the sexuality of people. That's you who feels like that. You have attached other peoples sexual preference with how you act around them. I don't do that. I don't think it matters at all, and I act the same way around everyone. There is nothing I would say to a straight person that I wouldn't say to a bisexual person (vice versa and all variations).


Why are you kicking up such a fuss if it didn't matter to you?

People ask lots of things that don't matter. For example:

"How old are you?"
"What colour are your eyes?"
"What size are your shoes?"