It's not a fucking LIFESTYLE, you patronizing bastards!!!

The BBQ Pit
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Ok, I’m well past the point of tired where being told that homsexuality is a lifestyle. How incredibly demeaning to have ones life trivialized. None of us chose this. While I’m happy in my life, I know many that are not because of such stupid things like the public perception that it is a choice. If that is the case, let’s start talking about…

The Christian Lifestyle… after all, you choose to be a Christian.

What about the Republican Lifestyle? Let’s oppress everyone who isn’t rich, white, and male! Wheee!

Maybe we could get into the WASP Lifestyle and see how names like Buffy and Biff aren’t congenital, they’re CHOSEN.

GROWL

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Just curious…
do you think being a bitch is a lifestyle choice, or is it hereditary…
In my case…I think it’s both…
:wink:

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Hissssssssss! :smiley:

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A hearty, “Fuck you” from this no-so-rich white male Republican. I’ve done nothing to oppress gays (or anyone else) and I resent your stereotyped (read as “prejudicial”) implication.

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Ditto. Fuck you, republican-opressor.

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UncleBeer, I think Hastur was trying to show the irony of the term gay lifestyle, NOT knock Republicans. Check the batteries in your sarcasm meter, dude! :slight_smile:

I think the idea he’s trying to get at is show the idiocy of the term gay lifestyle by comparing it with the idea of a Christian lifestyle, or a Democractic lifestyle or a Left-Handed, Myopic Dentist from Davonport, IA lifestyle.

No one ever uses the term Christian or Democratic lifestyle, so why is the term Gay lifestyle bandied about so much?

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He who Hasturd has a way of saying things that only serves to piss people off.

You are the first one to stereotype people you disagree with while in the same breath screaming about others who would put you into a category.

You are indeed a turd. I have no problems with anyones lifestyle (so long as they’re not in my face), but I have a problem with jerks who seem to think they are somehow elite, and in a position to tell everyone else how to live.

Here’s a hardy FUCK YOU, jerk.

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I absolutely agree with the intent of the OP, if not the tone. You don’t choose to be gay any more than you choose to be straight. You go where your hormones impel you.

UncleBeer: You’re inteelgent, pro-freedom and Fredrich Hayek, and I’m sure Hastur wasn’t going after all convervatives. However, until the Republican Party expels hatemongers like Jesse Helms and Tom deLay from the leadership, it will deserve opprobrium from fair-minded americans. I don’t love Democrats, but at least they acknowledge my right to exist.

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Er, intelligent, conservatives, and Americans.

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That’s OK, UncleBeer and friedo.

We can love the sinner and hate the sin. As long as you’re not actively engaging in Republican-like behavior, of course.

<running fast, far far away>

:smiley:

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Why some of my best friends… :wink:

I’ve often said that if you’re going to believe that homosexuality is a choice, certainly you’d believe that religion is also a choice, so if we get “special rights,” then that whole separation of church and state is a “special right,” then, based on your “lifestyle choice,” correct?

It never works, but it cracks me up nonetheless.

Esprix, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat

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Would it matter if it WAS a choice? I mean, would that make it okay to condemn gays? I say no way.
Who really cares whether it’s a choice or not. You’re not hurting anyone. Who cares?

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What exactly qualifies as being in your face? Generally, I’ve found people think just about any form of public homosexual activity that mirrors public heterosexual activity (holding hands, kissing) somehow qualifies as being in someone’s face, though hetero hand-holding, for example, somehow is out-of-face.

I suppose you tell heterosexuals who mention their marriage to (heartily) “Fuck off! Get that engagement ring out of my face!”

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Perhaps, (and this is not MY OPINION), it’s meant that some people keep pointing out that they’re gay/black/christian/left-handed, etc…and blame every misfortune on that fact.

Now, that is NOT my observation, for the most part, and I don’t see anyone here doing that…

I’m just pulling ideas out of my ass…

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Hey, get real. Whatever you sexual persuasion (or perversion), its how you wear it, especially in public. You (speaking of gays collectively) ask for the label by flaunting it. What you do behind closed doors is your business, but obvious public displays invite ridicule, and that public display can be discribed as a lifestyle.

So stop your whining Nogooddirtyrottenmotherfuckinbastard.

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Love the sinner, hate the sin.

::: dips Esprix in Clorox :::

Ah, that’s better. A shiny, new, Gay Republican.

(smilies forbidden in the Pit)

Anyway, re: lifestyles… It’s a semantics thing. Gay lifestyles can range just as widely as hetero lifestyles–from white-picket-fence suburban to flamboyant Castro-fetish. Would you like it better if it was referred to as the “gay subculture?”

I think that applying the word “lifestyle” is more of a means of recognition than of classification.

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Oh, bullshit. You know, Saturday night, Leigh-Anne and I went out to dinner with SqrlCub and DCNewsman over in the Dupont Circle area, which is, I’m told, where much of DC’s gay population congregates. Despite that, I saw a number of obviously heterosexual couples, but only one obviously gay couple besides the one we were with. Two men, walking down the street with their arms around each other’s waists. So, tell me, why don’t you waste your time berating the straight couples for “flaunting” their “lifestyle”? Could it be because deep down inside you know how patently stupid it is?

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Thanks, a very good addition for the Cool Band Names List.

Shiny Gay Republican

Superb.

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It is too a fucking lifestyle you dumbass oversensitive looking for trouble half-wit, moronic bastard!!!

(nothing personal that just felt good to respond in the style of the OP)

If as a Gay guy, if you read the Wall St. Journal, hang out at the country club, espouse conservative politics, and whatnot than you are a gay person that happens to be leading a Republican lifestyle.

If you are a staunch conservative Republican, who hangs out in Key West, talks with a lisp, Wears lime and paisley, and has other stereotypically gay traits, and performs other stereotypically gay actions, than you may in fact be an ultra conservative Republican leading a gay lifestyle.

All of these things (clothing, speech habits, vacations spots, etc) are done by choice and contribute more to your lifestyle than your innate sexual preference.

There is a a cultural commonality of interest and habit amongst gay people just as their is any other group, and it is perfectly valid and accurate to describe it in an appropriate term.

It’s a valid term. It’s nonderogatory, and I can’t imagine how one could imply that it was demeaning.

I suppose “Lifestyles of the rich and famous,” is demeaning because it seeks to oppress rich people.

Give me a fucking break. The world doesn’t owe you shit. Come live in it, and stop looking for trouble.

This kind of whining really pisses me off.

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tradesilicon: why don’t you crawl back under the rock your mother tried to kill you with?

I was attempting to make a point through sarcasm as Freyr aptly pointed out. If you don’t like being stereotyped, why do you think we do?