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Drakel
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I get what you're saying, and at a part I do agree with the fact that no one should have ideals forced upon them. Even so your placement of this, right after I just said that we should still try and solve major civil rights issues of discrimination, does irk me a bit.Well you have to understand that the LGBT thing as a whole is completely new. Society doesn't know how to deal with it, NOR should it be forced to handle it in a particular way.
This is again why I am Libertarian. No side should be able to use the government to force others to think they way they do, be that "Traditional" or otherwise.
I saw this a while back and thought it was interesting. Not the "nobody is born that way", but how they say that "Homosexuality" is "new" to our culture. I know its not exactly on topic, but it IS interesting to think about. Nobody is 'born that way,' gay historians say
As for the ending paragraph in this quote, Homosexuality isn't really a new thing, in fact it's been with us for a very long time. During medieval times it was mostly ignored and was relatively acceptable. As time passed things got worse and worse and we basically created a monster of hate towards anyone different from the social norms. Only in recent times have we started the process to end this discrimination and try to form a more equal world.
It's cool.Forgive me, I grew up both in America and Japan back and fourth every 4 to 6 months. Sometimes I am not thinking in the terms right. I thought you meant communities like a literal "city".
Ahh right. Alrighty then.You mentioned that the psychiatrist was probably expressing a personal bias. I just wanted to explain that I look at everything from a stand point that it is a personal bias.
Government sites? Government is partisan politics, and bias towards whoever is in power. I could give examples, but it would open up too much to talk about in the conversation. And I feel the same way about college studies, because you can have two opposing studies and people will gravitate towards the one that fits their own bias.
As for Government sites, they aren't so much of politics as much as they are studies, facts and the like. I try grab from only the most reliable sources I can find at the time. So don't fear any bias in them like what you mentioned, because they're more just stating facts.
I feel like I should take great offence to this by the nature of how it is written. However I'll just want to calmly state that homosexual people have always been with us in history, and while at first they were not really a major thing to be against, as time passed discrimination grew more and more and only within the 21st century have we started to try and fix this problem.I want to refer to this again, I don't think there was a bias in the past because "being gay" in the past was not a thing to "Be", but more of an "action that one could take".
Though assuming that is literally what you meant, than I suppose all is well here. Moving on.
That's basically what a lot of people want, though sadly the main problem is that we still have A LOT of homophobia, Sexism, racism, classism and the like that puts people down considerably and dehumanizes them for who they are, how they lived and what they are. This is very, very wrong and is a problem that many places face, not only the US. This is what I am talking about overall and is something that really does need discussion and to be solved, for no human should be dehumanized for anything less than committing acts that seriously harms or takes rights away from others.I'm going to take this to task. With about half the population split down the center(basing this on the political divide, which I think is an accurate-ish measuring stick for this topic) , I don't think the "overall populace" things that way.
What I think it should think is "Live and Let live", or better put in my way "leave each other the fuck alone.". XD
Sadly this world isn't as 'live and let live' as we would all like, and it's going to take a long time and serious amounts of good progress to make it like such. At the speed of our progress though, I will say that, off of a personal assumption, five or six more generations and we would've finally probably fixed these issues.
"I have no mouth and must scream" has never been so properly placed.For that LGBT Bullying Statistics, I offer this:
Fact Sheet: Lesbian Partner Violence
A Same-Sex Domestic Violence Epidemic Is Silent
In all seriousness though, what I meant by LGBT bullying statistics is, children who are gay or cross-dress to feel like their true selves getting harassed, bullied and harmed to the point where they refuse to go to their school, especially high-school and college students.
Though this does help with a new point. A lot of these domestic violence cases are probably a symptom of such bullying in the past, along with knowing nothing but hate, fear and just cruelty of other people's judgement. Even so. I think that domestic violence is REALLY hard to find since very few people actually WANT to report it, heterosexual or LGBT. No one wants to admit they are being abused and no one wants to admit that it's from their spouse. Those who do worked up that courage after a long, long time's worth of torment.
From what I gathered on that subject, it is actually relatively the same overall for both lgbt and heterosexuals. Though as said the results of how many domestic violence actually happen are very skewed and are likely higher statistic-wise than what we currently know.
http://gcfv.org/files/Are There Similarities and Differences Between Domestic.pdf