To begin with, Otto, that’s not what I said.
What I said here earlier, and all over the place quite frankly, is that I couldn’t care less what people do behind closed doors. If that’s what they like, then by all means, they can have at it. I’m not saying it’s an unacceptable life style, not at all. I’m saying it’s a perfectly acceptable lifestyle, if that’s what they choose to do.
Where have I said otherwise?
But after saying that, however, I don’t think it’s wrong for me to say I don’t want to see it. And I don’t think it’s acceptable for you to tell me otherwise.
Does the fact that I don’t want to see it invalidate my position that others should not only be allowed to do it, but that it’s their right?
Because that’s how I feel, and I’ll tell you right now, it pisses me off that someone can’t see that distinction for what it is- a distinction between giving people the right to do what they want, but not necessarily wanting to witness it.
Honestly, what do you expect?
I’m heterosexual. Given that, I’m not all that interested in sitting around a watching a gay video. I’m especially not all that interested in watching it when I had plans that were completely different. Plans, I might add, that were crashing and burning right before my eyes.
I didn’t write that from the perspective of all guys, or all heterosexuals, or human kind or anything… It was the lone perspective of this guy, and this guy only.
The other part of your post that ticks me off is you attitude. Yeah, your attitude.
You bitch at me for not being tolerant.
Take a look in the mirror, pal.
Tolerance goes both ways, Otto, not just the way that serves your interests the best.
In this case, like I said earlier, it was clear from the get-go what the situation was- it was a hetero guy with his girlfriend sitting down to watch what was presumed to be a hetero porno… except it wasn’t, it was a gay video.
How’d you expect me to react?
I didn’t attack alternative lifestyles, nor did I say anything offensive or bigoted about it. You got the perspective of what happened from my viewpoint, not the neighbors, not the guy across the street, not the guy sitting next to you.
How would you like it if I came in here and said the things that you said if that post had involved two gay guys, or two lesbian women?
How would you feel if I said, “It wasn’t your actions that I found disturbing. It was your presentation of blind heterosexual panic as not only understandable but hilarious. We get it. You like dick on dick, or pussy on pussy. Stop overcompensating”?
I have a feeling you’d be pissed, and others would be pissed, and I’d agree with them completely.
Why? Because that attitude is intolerant of others who don’t share the same viewpoints that they do.
How are you not doing that to me, here?
Like I said, Otto, tolerance goes both ways, not just your way, when it serves you best.
You’re pissed that I seem to be intolerant? Look in the mirror.
And finally, to clarify that last point, had that post been about gays and/or lesbians, and the situation was the exact same, except that they saw a straight video instead of a gay or lesbian one, I’d probably laugh harder than if it was what had actually happened.
That is, I’m sure there are homosexuals and lesbians who would not only be surprised by getting a straight video, I’d bet a few would actually respond to having it come on the way that I did.
I sure as hell wouldn’t come in here and tell them they need to be more sensitive to my feelings, or more sensitive to my lifestyle. I knew what I was reading, and I should know, or at least understand, that it’s going to come from that perspective.
Saying that should include my perspective, simply because it’s my perspective and not the writers perspective, is not only ludicrous, it’s intolerant and naive.
*And since you hit a nerve, Otto, and since you brought it up twice, regarding the overcompensating crack- who’s overcompensating here Otto?
And besides, [Homer Simpson again]It’s funny because it’s true…[/Homer Simpson again]
