It might be an innocuous “sex in general” comment in a general conversation about sex. As a generic response to any allusion to lesbianism, or to what was supposed to be a “Great Debate” about censorship in a high school yearbook, it is inappropriate. I believe Zette has already dealt with this.
Yes, it is rude to grill people about their sex lives. But despite the rudeness of such an act I never said anything about simple questions about other people’s behavior, which however rude they may be, might be motivated by genuine intellectual curiosity. No one here has objected to any such thing. The closest anyone came to it was Janie, who said “When is it EVER appropriate to question ANYONE else so explicitly about their sexuality and sexual activities?”, and note the qualifier “so explicitly”.
The questions I really object to are questions like “Can I watch you have sex?” or “How about you have sex with me and my girlfriend?” These are questions that are never appropriate for a stranger or casual acquaintance, and are rarely appropriate even for someone you have a close relationship with.
According to ssj_man2k any lesbian or bisexual woman should expect it as a reasonable consequence to her failure to remain in the closet. Unless of course she lives in the South, in which case she should expect to be murdered instead.
They might well be expecting to be stared at. Or perhaps they just got caught up in the moment. But I am quite certain that of all the people who have ever kissed in public, precious few did so hoping they they would receive sexual invitations from strangers because of it. As I said earlier, it seems to me that people kissing in public would be less likely to welcome such attention than others, since they are after all making a public show of their romantic attachment to each other. I doubt if anyone seriously believes that heterosexual couples who kiss in public should expect to be propositioned because of it.
You might not have said or implied it; he did. I don’t have any problem with you here, except for your attempts to misrepresent your opposition. I don’t understand why you feel the need to defend ssj_man2k’s remarks, or what you hope to accomplish by doing so. He’s the only one who knows what he really meant, and if he can’t explain himself then I hardly see how you can succeed where he failed.
There’s a difference between finding something innapropriate and taking personal offense at it. It seemed to me you were taking such comments quite personally. In any case, while I am still relatively new here, I have seen worse examples of thread hijacking than this, even in GD.
Once again, I feel I must point out that no one here has asked you anything like this.
Again I remind you of the OP. We were talking about two women not merely “out of the closet” but kissing each other in public.
I can’t really say, as I’ve never done it. If it were on, say, a city street corner I wouldn’t too surprised. All kinds of…ummmm…“unusual” people in the big city.
Again I remind you, we were talking about two women kissing each other in public, not “…any woman known to be attracted to other women…” (emphasis on “any woman” added by me).