Politically Correct Oprah has 'Bias' Towards Gay Marriage

(Opinion) Politically Correct Oprah has 'Bias' Towards Gay Marriage

By Suzanne Venker

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  • GreenBean
    stereotypes

    "[Homosexuals] are not just like the rest of us."

    Stereotypes of homosexuals are not like the rest of us. Where you are mistaken is in believing that the majority of homosexuals adhere to stereotypes. In fact, the average homosexual is not anything like the stereotypes, and you would be surprised to realize there are many homosexuals for which you would be unable to identify as homosexual.

    "Objectionable" differences between the average homosexual and heterosexual include public displays of affection and whatever happens behind closed doors (which shouldn't matter to any reasonable person anyway).

    So while you claim that homosexuals are "just not like the rest of us", it seems to me that the only reason this seems true to you is in the fact that heterosexuals may be uncomfortable with seeing public displays of affection between homosexuals (akin to the displays you would see between heterosexuals). It has nothing to do with the homosexuals behaving differently than a comparable heterosexual couple would in public. It has to do with how a heterosexual interprets what they see. The problem is with the heterosexuals, not the homosexuals.

    - GreenBeanUS November 13, 2009 11:50AM

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    • fluffyone
      Re: Stereotypes

      You are absolutely correct GreenBean. The problem is with the heterosexuals. I've known too many people that were borderline cases or beyond the shores as one would call it. The discrimination and the bias clearly lies with the heterosexuals. The thing is this, you needn't even be homosexual. I've had the family doctor try to nail me as latently homosexual and criticize my behavior. This is a general social problem. You're not even allowed to violate the sacred idea of hetero- sexism by variation along the lines of biological determinism. I think a priori, there is too much "belief" in things that cannot even find any justification as being natural. People are violation each other as much as nature is being violated. Nothing gives anyone preeminence over others. Nature is not a male delineated hierarchical system. Nature is interrelatedness. "People" infuse things that work perfectly fine with a false mystical feeling of being sublime.

      - fluffyone November 18, 2009 10:40PM

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