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Many gays I know are perfectly ordinary people

Posted by: Nikhil Jaikumar ( DSA, MA, USA ) on December 14, 1999 at 16:19:20:

In Reply to: Take your sexuality and clear off alright! posted by Lark on December 14, 1999 at 14:54:54:

: I just have to say that I dont hate gays, I dont hate gay people who do terribly abnormal things to each other for gratification BUT I hate gay pride, I hate it because every toilet I go in has something scrawled on the wall about 'what a big shag in the ass' or something.

: That's not civilised never mind decent, never mind anything anyone should be proud of, then they go pracing about in leather and rubber and they wonder why society gets riled from it's I dont really care slumber to condemn the crap out of them.

: I've yet to meet someone who was just gay the way heterosecuals are just heterosexual, no it has to be their entire life, they way they dress, walk, speak and act and it just pisses me off.

Man, you're wrong there. I have two good friends from high school, one of them is gay, the other bisexual. You couldn't tell about either of them unless they told you. The gay kid is an activist,working for the Free Tibet Network. He actually got kicked out by his parents for a while and had to live with friends. He's a very nice, courteous, innoffensive guy. I think perhaps your acquaintance with gays is limited or unrepresentative. Many of them are perfectly ordinary people.

And by the way, Lark, let me caution you, just a bit of comradely advice, against reading Adam Smith. Remember what readingtoo much Adam Smith and following his precepts did to El Salvador, Indonesia, South Korea et cetera. Smith was the forefather of the 'ethic' we see today that makes possession of money and power the only benchmark in deciding what rights people have. It reduces peopel to how much moneyv they own, it codnemns teh rest to inevitable suffering and it rewards teh worst impulses in human nature.


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