How can you accept gay people, but find it distasteful that they have sex?
This is a serious question? Really? I’d have thought it fairly easy – you know, I tolerate your beliefs, lifestyle, sexual preferences, choices etcetera, but I do not have to approve. Simple stuff that even someone as retarded as a Guardian columnist should be able to grasp.
The number of people believing there is nothing wrong with gay sex has fallen for the first time since the Aids crisis. The British Social Attitudes survey puts it at dipping from 68% in 2017 to 66% in 2018, leaving a third of the population in some way opposed. NatCen, who conducted the survey, said that, while further polling was advisable, “liberalisation of attitudes does seem to be slowing down”.
The findings coincide with the first decrease in more than a decade of people comfortable with pre-marital sex.
And this is surprising because? Oh, I see, you can’t see the elephant hiding in the corner because it’s wearing a burqa…
FFS! This was an obvious consequence of importing millions of people from a highly conservative culture who share the Abrahamic belief that homosexuality is a sin. What did you expect?
Some people pride themselves on “tolerating” what they perceive as cultural gays, but then recoil from evidence of their sexuality.
This is a perfectly natural reaction. It is normal. I would suggest that deep down most heterosexual people feel the same when contemplating gay sex.
The day might come when gay people are surveyed about their distaste at heterosexual sex (“unnatural in the eyes of God!”), when gay people are as unhealthily obsessed with policing straight sex as certain straight people are with policing gay sex.
Perhaps if some gay people didn’t find it necessary to loudly and pompously proclaim their sexuality at every opportunity? Hmm? Maybe if they didn’t think it okay to parade down the street half-naked in S&M gear in the name of “Pride”? Seriously sweetheart, we don’t care and really, really don’t want to know. It’s a private matter and should remain that way. I don’t tell people about my sex life and I don’t want to hear about others’. No one, literally, no one, is policing gay sex because no one is interested.
I agree with the Christian group who complained that tolerance these days seems not to be enough – we are expected to celebrate homosexuality and they do not wish to. Neither do I. Whatever consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes is up to them. But I fail to see why I should be expected to approve of or celebrate it. I’ll defend to the death anyone’s right to live as they see fit. But that’s it. I am not going to start waving a rainbow flag – because, deep down, I find it faintly distasteful. So, yeah, it is entirely possible to be tolerant and still find it distasteful.
This, I guess, makes me a very bad person with a make-believe mental illness who now needs a trip to the re-education camps. It also probably means that I am literally Hitler.
Tolerance means tolerating things you disapprove of doesn’t it? You don’t “tolerate”things you already approve of. It doesn’t make sense. Anyway I think tolerance of Gay Pride etc is as you say being strained by constantly having it pushed in our faces as well, of course, as importing large numbers of people who do not approve of homo sexual activity and who do not want it taught in primary school.
Fully agree with those who don’t want their primary school age children baptized into the joys of same sex or multi gendered relationship indoctrination.
Hows about letting them be children for a while eh? or have the enemy realised that propaganda from an ever earlier age produces more maleable results.
As for Pride and the general media pushing of the new agendas, not watching reading or listening to mainstream media output, you’d hardly know any of this was going on, thankfully those i work with who live alternative lifestyles discuss details of their sex lives with about the same intensity as the rest of us do, ie never.
I long ago concluded that other people’s sex lives are non of my business whichever direction they happen to swing. I think that having seen a fair bit of internet porn, I’ve become even more broad minded about stuff and nothing really bothers me at all now. As for the pride marches, l’ve only ever seen them on the telly but I find them colourful and mildly entertaining, they don’t really bother me. Presumably I will only need a small amount of re education due to not being on board with the totally flexible gender nonsense.
Yeah, personally the pride thing doesn’t bother me, but on the other hand I have this vague feeling that they should just get over themselves.
“… the bizarre phenomenon of almost “enforced asexuality”, where gay people (or anyone non-straight) can be accepted, even celebrated, but only so long as the “sex stuff” is played down to the point of being undetectable.”
Call me old-fashioned, but I’d prefer it if everybody’s “sex stuff” were kept out of the public domain; to do otherwise suggests immaturity, inconsiderate exhibitionism or a pathological desire for the approval (or otherwise) of a third party. If you’ll forgive the scatological analogy, a recently potty-trained toddler might well present a brimming vessel for the applause of bystanders but most adults – in Western culture at least – prefer to confine the excretory functions to relative privacy.
Personally I’m with Mrs Patrick Campbell:
“My dear, I don’t care what they do, so long as they don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.”
Funnily enough, the potty analogy went through my mind.