• Poggervania@kbin.social
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          Genders are a social construct, yes, but some people are literally born gay. It wasn’t like they chose to be gay - they just are. To say that sexuality is a “result of society” is absolutely ridiculous. To put this in perspective: can you, a straight guy, can just choose to be gay? Can you suddenly decide that you want to suck a dick? That’s how you know it’s not a social construct - you’re literally hard-wired to be whatever the fuck sexuality you are.

          I sort of get what you’re saying with heterosexuality being the “default” because it’s quite literally how the human race needs to reproduce, but please don’t go saying that people choose to be gay, because they do not.

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            I always feel like “Choose to not be gay” people

            1. Want to try sleeping with someone of their gender
            2. Decide to suppress their needs because of religion / societal pressure
            3. Say to themselves “I’m not gay because I married a women/man”
            4. Project this on to all people and say that gay people gave in to their desires while straight are strong and don’t

            They don’t realize not every man wants to suck dick.

            They don’t realize step 1 already makes them gay no matter their choices.

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              This feels like the “One drop of blood” test but for sexuality. Things exist on a spectrum. Gay isn’t just “not straight”. People aren’t gay just because they wondered about same-sex relationships.

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          You think being gay is just about sex? Is heterosexuality just about sex to you? If so, I feel bad for you not having any romance in your life.

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            Homosexuality is a myth made up by the clothing industry to sell all their pink fabric and peacock sunglasses

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          Look, why not just come out of the closet. It’s clear from your post history that you are obsessed with thoughts of gay sex. Just admit what you are. It’s 2023. Think long and hard.

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      default because of centuries of religion and culture ensuring anything other than heterosexuality was punished

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      The point of this post is to point out that the argument of “teachers are corrupting kids into being gay by talking about it and having books with gay people”. The fact that most people are straight doesn’t factor into it at all, unless you mean that everybody is born straight, in which case you’re just wrong. Btw a useful thought experiment in general is to swap “gay” with left-handed. Would you ever say that being right-handed is the “default handedness”? Would you care if a teacher mentions being left-handed?

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        If you have a pretty loose definition of default, it’s easy to conclude that right-handedness is the default handedness. I wouldn’t be surprised if OP agreed with that idea.

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          Right, but at that point “default” becomes a useless term. Elsewhere in the thread OP said they’d raise their kids “heterosexually” or smth, and if they’re consistent with wanting to raise their kids the “default” way, they’d also want to raise their kids right-handedly, as girls (because women make up slightly more than 50% of the population), in Mandarin, etc etc. Nobody’s entirely default.

          Sure, you could say that right-handed is the default. And? It doesn’t impact any other arguments.

          Going even further into extremes, over 99% of matter in the universe is helium or hydrogen. By that definition of default, helium and hydrogen are the default state of matter, and carbon-based lifeforms aren’t “supposed to” exist.

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            Excellent arguments. I didn’t mean to imply I think children should be raised without mentioning homosexuality.

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      And being composed of hydrogen and helium is the default for 99.9% of the entire universe, so why are you creating exceptions for carbon?

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      That’s true

      But it also has nothing to do with this. It’s as good as saying someone is evil because the sky is blue.