But.. honestly I think you have a point there... really.. why would an individual start so many threads on the same topic if they weren't constantly looking for a specific type of stimulating conversation?
nodnod.
Yup. I'm not one to leap from "I think homosexuality is wrong" to "YOU MUST BE REPRESSED!" I don't even usually make the leap from hatred to repression.
But when somebody *regularly* writes long, exceedingly graphic descriptions of homosexual sex acts, and seems incapable of discussing gay people, say...buying vegetables to make salad, without seeing it as being sexual...
well, you really gotta wonder.
I know this isn't quite the place for it, but now I've started talking. I'm starting to see, more and more, the way gay people are hypersexualized, *not* due to a grain of truth in the stereotype, but because so many
straight people simply can't think about gay people without imagining sex.
There was an article in my newspaper a few months ago that included an interview with several gay teenagers and young adults. Most of them said, of course, that they had some sense of being gay when they were young children, six or seven.
There was a letter to the editor later, asking why a six year old would even be *thinking* about sex, let alone what kind they prefer. They must have been abused, the writer thought, for them to be imagining sodomy and thinking about who they want to do it with.
Because, yeah, children's crushes are always blatantly sexual like that. Really, can our culture not even look at a *child* who turns out to be gay without imagining them in bed?
And those same people call *us* sick.