RicOlie_2 said:
Bingowings said:
To equate homosexuality (an attraction to one thing over another) with a chemical addiction is such a stir but I've had it compared to child rape, motor vehicle theft and Gods knows what else on these boards so clearly the great liberal utopia people seem to think exists for homosexuals is as much a myth as the Garden of Eden.
Good grief, Bingowings, is the purpose of those analogies still going over your head? How many times must I explain what I meant before you get it? This shows to me how little you care about other points of view and how little you want to understand other people. Even when I renounce a position I held earlier or apologize for my lack of clarity or lack of thought in a post, you still bring it up over and over and over again. Every thread in Off Topic seems to end up being about homosexuality and it isn't because other people keep attacking you for it. No, it's because you insist on beating a dead horse and bringing it up at every opportunity, twisting people's words around as if you didn't understand what they said (and you expect us to get what you're saying all the time!?).
I get that you've experienced a lot of hate and misunderstanding, but what will you accomplish by repeating yourself over and over again? Nothing. You will accomplish nothing--except for one thing: you used to seem like a great and fun guy, but as time progresses you seem more and more selfish, self-centred, and prejudiced. I doubt that's what you want to be accomplishing, so try considering a different approach if you want better results.
I would also appreciate it if you made more of an effort to see other people's point of view, took things out of context less often, and didn't twist other people's words around, making them look bad.
Yeah I'm selfish and self centred being the lone voice of defense (by the looks of things) for a large minority of the human race against the fairy tales and prejudice of a large majority of the humans race on this planet and clearly represented on these boards.
Thread after thread after thread based on various religions and the subject is picked up everywhere else too but I'm selfish because I bang the drum for homosexuality.
I bang other drums too.
I don't hear people moaning so much about my repeated mentions of animal rights or Korean horror movies but when the god squad are in town it's very selfish to defend my sexuality which I repeat is not chose or removable or even expressed much in the way of activity.
Why should make any special effort to see your point of view?
I grew up in a society steeped in thousands of years of history of your point of view. It's been drummed into me since the day I was born. It's everywhere. Adverts, cinema, books, television all depicting over and over again the heterosexual family model. My parents were heterosexual as were the vast majority of my relatives, friends and their relatives too.
I live in a country based largely in the Christian tradition. I was taught Bible stories all the way up to secondary school without an option to reject those lessons and opted for more when I went to sixth form college. My television license fee pays for Christian church services to be televised. I visit Christian places of worship on holiday.
It you who might get something new from trying to see my point of view (largely by not make stupid comparisons between homosexuality and a raft of negative activities) because it is the unusual one. The one we don't both share.
I've spent over four decades walking in your shoes try mine on for size.