Being "disgusted" by other people´s sexual orientation (or race, skin color or whatever) is even worse that being afraid of it.
EDIT: Sorry for quoting the whole post, but I couldn´t figure out how to edit the quote. Now that´s a bit dumb, for sure. ;-)
Oh. How? Disgust is not a result of cognitive thinking, but stems from very basic feelings, the same as getting disgusted by eating raw cow intestines. To be exact, somebody else's sexual orientation is none of my business and I don't bother myself with it. It's simply for me the thought of having sex with another man, or two other men having sex with each other, that disgusts me. But if they do it behind closed doors instead of waving it at my face, I don't have anything to say. Maybe this clarifies...
On this board it has to be done manually - don't use the quote feature at all, but copypaste instead. Then use the force of BBCode. Write "quote=you" inside brackets [] and end with "/quote" inside brackets (without the quotes).
PS. You was in Africa, right? What did you do there and what was it like?
I see myself as a friendly and approachable person.
Well accepted - but then why use an alleged different sexual orientation as an insult?
why not use asshole, donkey, moron, idiot ... ... ... instead?
and if the kids in the kindergarten use "homo" as an insult, they should be tought that this is not right.
As a matter of fact, I am still there (in Ethiopia, to be exact). The work is very interesting, challenging and lots of fun! :-)
Well accepted - but then why use an alleged different sexual orientation as an insult? That's a very valid question. Probably because to many, that subject has a negative connotation. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that was what I meant for myself there.
Quoting bugjam why not use asshole, donkey, moron, idiot ... ... ... instead? Uh, why not just stop the insulting alltogether... :P
Quoting bugjam and if the kids in the kindergarten use "homo" as an insult, they should be tought that this is not right. You are absolutely right. Regardless of what we might think, we should teach our children to behave better than us. ;)
Quoting bugjam As a matter of fact, I am still there (in Ethiopia, to be exact). The work is very interesting, challenging and lots of fun! :-) That's really cool! I admire you lots for doing that - I was immediately impressed when I read about it in the demo Kitgum two years ago. Later that year I was looking into an opportunity somewhat similar, but the timing was really bad for me. Now I'd like to have a second look, but I don't really know where. I can't exactly buy a plane ticket and come down to Africa and say "Hi, I'm here to help, what can I do?" - and it's very hard to find organizations that offer volunteer work. Also with my degree in finance, I'm not high up on the list of wanted people, but I shall see how it goes.
