Quote:While this is true, when did it stop being okay to be respectful? In my case I wasn't demeaning to High Score but his response was petty. Telling someone that what they said is bull crap just because they don't agree is childish and shortsighted in my opinion. I guess I'm of the generation or was raised in such a way that that is not how you treat people. You will see me disagree with people here but I won't call people names nor be deliberately hateful.

 

But hey, if people here want to be that way that's on them. I was fine with HS until he said, "Interesting. Has nothing to do with anything we were talking about, but I'm glad you got that off your chest." He didn't want to hear anything I had to say or he might not have seen where I was coming from. Regardless, I don't care. He has his opinion and I have my experiences that I stand by and that's as far as it goes for me when it comes to talking about it with him. 

 

Listen...

 

I am sorry if I was being rude. I didn't call you any names as you allege, but rude in tone I will give you. I got a little upset that you were apparently broadbrushing an entire group of people and reducing their lives down to a cry for attention or fitting in. If you have known somebody where that was the case, fine. I know lots of people where that absolutely WASN'T the case. 

 

All too often, people are decidedly emphatic that all gay people are the way they are because they chose it, because it doesn't fit in that particular person's worldview that it could be any other way. This can be yours (or someones) opinion, but I certainly don't have to like it or agree with it.

 

Then you bust out the part about people you know, and how "You don't know anything about me or how I have lived. It would make some people here cry if they knew the things I've dealt with. I don't say that wanting sympathy because I sure don't need it, just pointing out a fact." I failed to see how somebody you knew choosing to be gay related to whatever hardships or struggles YOU have experienced. You said you didn't want to talk about it, but gave a vivid enough description that would make people think that yeah, you indeed do want people to ask you about it.

 

The point I was trying to make was 1) you allegedly don't want anybody to care 2) it's none of my business, and I don't care, and 3) it doesn't seem to have anything to do with your gay friend who chose to be gay.

 

As for everyone else, I never once infringed on anybody's free-speech (this part is laughable) and I have the right to my own opinion on the subject. I admit to being rude, but lets not for a minute pretend like no one else has been rude to someone of which they disagree.

 

So, apologies to americus 2.0. You have the right to your opinion, I just think its unfair to project people's homosexuality as a cry for attention.

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