Space Master wrote:
I disagree about the genetic thing. Genes just code for proteins. Emotions, feelings, etc, don’t boil down to chemicals in my view, because a beaker of serotonin sitting on a table isn’t in itself happy etc. etc.
well whatever causes the emotions (which even science isn’t sure of itself) its something that seems to be defined early on in life and I don’t think it can be changed by something as simplistic as a TV show, or what clothes someone chooses to wear.
For instance a bloke who wears more revealing clothes is sometimes accused of being “gay” when they may merely be taking advantage of better weather, or be proud of their body or simply find that stuff fits them more closely as they have put on weight recently (this problem tends to affect shorter people who used to get away with wearing youths’ sizes until they reach their 30s.. :laugh_at:) or they are just an emo…
In other words I don’t think sexuality is merely a lifestyle or fashion choice which is what the right-wingers try to use to justify homophobia.
I do find it wholly wrong that so many people these days still feel “threatened” by someone being gay or admitting to it.
I’m a straight male but a few of my friends over the years have come out or are quite open about being gay and I have never felt unnerved by this.
It doesn’t make me any less “masculine” because some people I know have different ideas. I do get a bit worried that popular culture has gone back in progressiveness some years compared to the 1980s and early 1990s..
