w/e...its disrespectful and disingenuous for contemporary american gays to compare their struggles to the plight of our ancestors who faced institutionalized racism and fought to make it possible that you and every other black person has the right to be treated like a human being.
Gays have also, historically and presently, been denied their person-hood. Gays have also, and still do, face institutional discrimination. How many times do I have to point out that
being gay can get you fucking killed?
yes gays are being denied the right to marry, been discriminated against and are often victims of violence so there are similarities there
There is no 'but' after this. Gays, like Blacks, are discriminated against.
but there's a difference in feeling discriminated against simply because of one's physical appearance vs. what one does be hide closed doors....
It's not a question of what you do so much as who you are. Homosexuality, the attraction itself, is considered perverse which is why acting on it can get you killed, bullied, incarcerated etc.
its like me as a ameircan woman comparing my plight and struggles to those of middle eastern woman, i would never do it.
Sexism is generally much stronger and occurs far more often in the Middle East but some American women actually have it worse than some Middle Eastern women do (the 'Middle East' is a broad region and Sharia law isn't practiced everywhere). If I'm not mistaken, Saudi women can't vote, they require a male guardian and up until '05, forcing them into marriage was legal. That's institutionalized sexism, Black people (in the U.S, South Africa and I'm sure every other country where they're found) no longer face *institutionalized* racism.
You realize gay, homosexual means having sex with the same gender. Having sex with a man, if you're a man is homosexual no matter what you are attracted to, you're gay. And no one is born homo or hetero. Sexuality is learned and some kids learn homosexuality due to bad parenting. The best I can give it is a mental disorder and thus it should not be encouraged. It's clear that nature intends for man to be hetero, so thus homo has to be some kind of disorder.
Nature doesn't "intend" for anything. Nature is a mindless, amoral system of causality. We're a part of nature so every thing we do is necessarily 'natural'. Even if it weren't, by your reasoning, we already live 'unnatural' lifestyles since we're adapted for hunting-gathering in the African savannah yet we grow food, burn fossil fuels for energy etc.
And btw if Homo's were born homo, then why is there a sudden emergence of kids, little kids that are so called homo all of a sudden?? Because it's a choice, and right now it's a gay ass fad.
When 'society' becomes more 'tolerant', obviously people are going to feel less pressured to hide who they are. This is as meaningful as asking "if Black women are born with natural hair, why are there more BW with natural hair now than there used to be?".
And to compare blacks and gays is still stupid since Blacks can't hide shit, while gays can just not act gay in the same way a pedophile acts normal in public. Hide what you are if it gets discriminated against, it's obvious and people do it every day and for centuries. Black people have no such choice. Call me when homos can't get jobs cause they're homo and get paid less and get less schooling, and get hung, burned, can't vote, enslaved, can't go places, can't buy things etc.
Putting them in a position where they have to hide their sexuality in order to avoid alienation is itself discrimination. It makes no difference whether they can choose or hide their sexuality, they should be given the same consideration that everyone else demands.
