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You're talking about the individual, I'm talking about the culture. Micro, macro. If a broad culture wants to be accepted as normal, they *maybe* shouldn't let the minority "freaks" lead the way. Sure, the freaks are part of the overall culture (every culture has it's own freaks), and they are...

I thought "queer" was general homosexual, so I thought the LGB covered that. "Questioning" seems a bit odd, to me. Is that the period before coming to grips with one's LGB... identity, or is it something more long term/permanent? Agenger, asexual, and pansexual, I understand. Intersex? ****...

What's the Q and + mean in LGBTQ+? If you want someone to learn how to dive into a pool, you start with a low height. You don't force them off the 20' height, then say, "See, you survived, so you know jumping from the edge will be easy." I know. I was trying to make sure the image was clear. I...

I've seen some really good arguments that we *should* shop around for our doctors and hospitals, but we don't because we've all gotten accustomed to insurance "handling" it. I know I've shopped around for doctors outside of emergency situations. I shopped around for my vasectomy a couple years...

Are there any sci-fi (or sci-fantasy) novels where the characters are never actually identified as humans? Bullgrit

But you're ok with my mocking Southerners and NASCAR? [And doesn't NAMBLA have "love" in it's very name? I can't believe I'm talking about NAMBLA.] I just assumed we probably didn't have any furry sexers around here. If we do, I apologize for picking on them. I'll stick to picking on my own...

Because men with long hair and earrings weren't culturally/societally "normal" (business men, store clerks, doctors, etc.). Long hair and earrings became accepted as normal once "normal" men started doing it. When people saw that a guy growing his hair long didn't turn into a hoodlum, long hair...

My point is not that weird should be seen as normal, but rather the normal should be seen as, "yes, indeed these are just as normal as every other normal." Are gays weird? Or are they normal? I see the normal gays as normal, the weird gays as weird -- same as with normal gamers and weird gamers...

Insert photo of neo-nazi rally. Insert photo of klan rally. Insert photo of NAMBLA convention. Insert photo of furry sex party. :-) No, I'm not comparing gay pride with any of the above. What I'm illustrating without an illustration ('cause I ain't about to Google any of that from work) is I...

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Well, I've been told, years ago, by two different people, that that was the purpose of the parade, (one of whom did participate in such a parade). Essentially, (paraphrasing from memory), "Hey, we're here, we're real people, we're not monsters." From wikipedia [bold, mine]: Google: purpose of...

We haven't talked about our fitness lately (a couple years?), so let's start a new thread on it. I've started working on a hanging heavy bag at the gym, and I'm finding it very enjoyable. I bought a pair of MMA gloves, and I punch around the bag for 20 minutes a few times a week. I really like...

For the record: I find those flamboyant participants in gay pride parades hilarious, because I, too, have a good sense of humor, and I'm not bothered by gayness (in both senses of the word). But I'm already sold on the idea that homosexuality is not a problem in any way. But I know there are...

No. Note I said *openly* live. Please don't put words in my mouth, nor twist my words to mean something completely different. Looks like this issue is another case of "you must be completely all in acceptance of all of this or you must be completely all in opposed to all of this." Can one not...

NPR this morning had a piece on the controversy of a Gay Pride Parade in Korea. I wonder if such parades are more harmful to gays than if they just openly lived "normal" lives. I mean, I came to be accepting of gays by seeing they are just normal people, rather than by seeing flamboyant, queer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhE7sgvwipo In the above video, NdT brings up an interesting point for discussion. Intelligence in the evolutionary record. Maybe our level of intelligence *is* a unique thing in the universe. Considering it doesn't seem evolutionarily necessary for wide and long...

I knew about this kind of thing. And rights regarding patient healthcare. And child/parenting rights. Etc. These are the kinds of things that I figured would be cured with allowing gay marriage, because without marriage, gay relationships are no different than normal hetero boyfriend/girlfriend...

I can imagine, and I don't doubt, how it is in that kind of environment. But would you say that is representative of the norm in general society? Are these "rights"? Things to be enforced by laws? I can see forcing tolerance, but inclusion and acceptance? You may have to tolerate your neo-nazi...

It's interesting how vastly different our cultural experiences can be even though we are generally in a very similar cultures (US and Canada, not France and Iran, for instance). I worked retail and restaurant jobs in high school and college. After college, I've worked in white collar jobs for...

Thanks. I edited the word. I don't think the filter has ever edited me while writing here because I easily edit myself as I write. But this slipped through because of copy-paste. Bullgrit