Ya know, its always bothered me as a gay man, that people honestly think that you can "turn" gay or straight. Its not something you just wake up one day and go "im gonna like dudes today". Its more like something where you grow up in a society that teaches you that liking girls is normal. So before an individual has any kind of sexual or emotional attraction to either gender, they think they know what they want and try to live the norm. Then one day I hit puberty and I began to realize that guys are attractive to me, not girls. Its wasnt a decision, its honestly a realization of something that was already there.
but this post is meant as a joke and isn't meant to imply that someone can be "turned" at all. Your opinion is valid but necessarily relevant to this post
I think you meant irrelevant. But the word "turned" does sort of imply that the girlfriend was presumably straight until she saw lesbian porn and then just decided to be a lesbian.
I understand the merit of coupling the joke with the bad luck brian reaction image. Im not saying the joke isnt funny. But the more people spread the misconception of people "choosing" to be a certain sexuality. The more people believe that they could just choose to change.
If we are supposed to avoid everything that might lead to people drawing incorrect conclusions on the internet, there wouldn't really be much left.
I do see the logic in your statement, I just don't feel that this is the way to avoid misconceptions about homosexuality. Properly informing younger generations about homosexuality is a cause i can fully get behind.
But it is almost literally impossible to effectively inform younger generations about homosexuality. Parents teach their kids, what they think is right, that where the child gains their mannerisms and values from. And its not up to schools to teach whether homosexuality is right or wrong. Their only job is to teach acceptance, which there is a difference between someone accepting that another person is gay, and believing that someone being gay is actually ok. You can really only try to change peoples mind on an individual basis, in which posting my original comment could potentially change somebodys mind.
I believe that it is very possible to effectively inform younger generations about homosexuality. I do not see why you would not. But if you wanted to in addition enlighten some individual on this site, I find that to be a very worthy cause.
The thing i want to get across is that initially it seemed to me that you were complaining about OP's work (if it's not a repost), and that would be very unfair.
No honestly, I kind of go a bit overboard sometimes. But if there is anything I hate most in the world its blind ignorance. And although this place already has enough gay propoganda already, I cant help myself. I always see at least 5 people who feel the need to say things like, "I support gay people, but...." then they go on to say that they think people are gay because they choose to be that way, or they were molested or they had no dominant male figure in their life growing up and its all ******** . My original comment was not meant as a criticism to OP's content. Just trying to clarify that one does not simply "turn gay/lesbian". If they "turn gay/lesbian" chances are they were already gay/lesbian.
You're probably one of the nicest people on here to discuss with: no red thumbs, no personal shaming. Even when defending a very personal matter, you stay cool. commend yourself for that.
I appreciate that you were able to keep it friendly as well. You know, what most people don't seem to get is every disagreement doesn't have to be an argument. Honestly, when someone tells me im wrong, I embrace them to prove it to me, so I myself can be less ignorant. But it usually just ends up being "You're wrong faggot, eat **** " and then upon asking for an explanation, I get an almost identical reply.