Original post by blue23371. and 2. it's clearly natural due to the fact that homosexuality is found in hundreds of animal species all over the world. Swans can be gay... If you're taking defects as your reason and lambasting homosexuals for being outside of the 'norm', I'm pretty sure brown eyes were originally a defect? Our pancreas has become a defect, because it's good for nothing except exploding, and yet we don't rail against that? Humans weren't meant to survive cancer and yet we've been working f*cking hard to fix that.
3. If by celebrating you mean having things like gay pride, pride is necessary not because The Gays are saying they're better than straight people, but because it's a way of a community uniting which has been tormented by laws, homophobia, violence and murder for decades. Of course they're going to want to get together and feel proud about a part of their identity they've grown up believing is a defect, makes them unworthy or less than other people. Imagine if people arbitrarily chose another trait to vilify others over - big nose? You're disgusting and should hang for it. You'd grow up believing you were so much worse than everyone else, trying to hide or change your nose, when the only reason people are attacking you is because it's something we've chosen to dislike. If you think we celebrate homosexuality now, read some Greek lit. Socrates, Virgil, Plato? All into that gay s***. All of 'em.
See my previous point about the Greeks, they were gay as heck all the time and yet people study classics like The Aeneid and Plato's Symposium all the time? Also, literally by using the word 'queer' you're showing how little you understand it... in a pejorative context that is. Believe it or not, not many gay people like the label queer, especially being said by a straight person, because that word has been used to literally justify murder in the past. You have no idea about it not being representative, imagine how gay people feel? Every single time they see a film it's like, oh, right, this is nice, more straight people. It really sucks growing up with so little to relate to. There's the "One in 10" rule which is basically like, there's probably about 10% of the population who are gay, and that's only people choosing to identify with it or be honest, I think you'd find far more people who are either bi or bicurious. So no, it's hardly overrepresentative, and that representation is often the best thing gay people get. So suck it up. If we deal with your straight drama, you can at least hold down your vomit over two consenting adults of the same gender having their own screen time.
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But for real, are you seriously arguing that procreation is every person's sole goal in life? Are you serious? There is so, so much wrong with that I can't even begin to take you seriously. First off, homosexuality may have been an impediment in the Stone Ages (where homophobia belongs), but we have a population growing at unbelievable speeds. The fostering system is crumbling under the weight of children without parents or a suitable home life. Gay people are helping you all, so be grateful - imagine if the entire world was 100% straight... the rates of population growth would be unbelievable, and resources would be even more stretched than the way they are now? Maybe homosexuality 'evolved' as a way of checking population growth? Like secondly you say 'how does it benefit anyone?' but that's just a crock of s***, why does it need to benefit anyone? If someone's gay, and they accept who they are, their sexuality isn't done as a benefit but it's a part of who they are and they can't change it, and they're certainly not doing it to help you and your life. That's like asking why someone with brown hair has brown hair if it doesn't benefit them. It's just how they are, you sockmonkey.