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They don't need to be made aware of it on a consistent continual basis. They don't need to be immersed in it to get a good enough idea.
Lots of people prefer to keep their personal lives private. I've always been single and don't date. Those who don't know me well might suspect I'm gay. And I couldn't care less. It's none of their business.
That’s how thought-experiments works, we leave the known and verifiable and look into the realms of what-ifs.
False equlivency. Most people agree that speeding is wrong. No one is vilified for saying speeding is wrong. Society isn't worshpping speeders. Speeders aren't demanding worship. Speeding isn't elementary school curriculum. There's no reckless dirver story hour for kids. Speeders aren't singing and chanting that they're coming for peoples children.
As long as it's not comparing apples to oranges. Which whataboutisms often do.
Pretty grim I'd guess. You'd need to be on your guard all the time. Always afraid of being 'exposed'.
I think you're using the word normal as meaning par for the course or quite common. It isn't. But that a small percentage of the population will be gay is normal. Going back to my AFL comments, there are 18 teams and say a squad of 30 per team. That's 540 guys. With player turn over, retirements etc, the number would be well into 4 figures over the last few years. The chances that none of them are gay are so astronomically small as to be all but statistically impossible. So some must be. But they're all like your neighbour. Afraid of what workmates or team members or family will say.
What's old news? Gay people being denigrated for being gay? Well, yeah. Very old news. The problem is that it's not just old news. It's new news as well. BPPLEE's neighbour. Some of the hundreds of men that play AFL. Anyone who is scared to come out because of the sort of comments that we get in threads like this. Anyone who is afraid that they'll be thought of as paedophiles (honestly - that does happen).
Exactly. We have just the opposite. From a very early age kids are taught about road safety. What is the right thing to do and what isn't. So if a kid tells her dad 'Hurry up, I'll be late for school' then he will explain about the harm that speeding can do (and you just reminded me that we had a character called Coco the Clown come around schools to do just that).
How you have the nerve to say that when you started this very thread with a complaint about gay people being paedophiles. The source of which was a lie, was shown to be a lie in the first few dozen posts but which you refused to accept for hundreds more.
If I was hanging around little kids I would expect people to be suspicious of me. Other than that no one has ever bothered me regarding my personal life. Strangers don't care. Co-workers know they can't. So that doesn't really leave anyone else except neighbors. And these days neighbors pretty much ignore each other, unless one is playing their music too loud.
Most do because people usually aren't interested in strangers. If I went out of my way to call attention to myself, it would probably be a different story. But I don't put on a show of being different. I practice "when in Rome" appearance and behavior. It's really not that difficult.
If you were doing it for no good reason without permission then yeah, of course people are going to be suspicious. Do you know anyone who does that?
