Reply #319: You're happy with "sexual orientation." [View All]

That's fine. Nobody's faulting you for it. I respect your choice of definition for yourself, and most of us here, I am certain, would never dream of telling you you must adopt anyone else's term, or definition of yourself. But that's half the point: No one gets to choose that for you.

And you're right: Fuck whoever doesn't like the way you live your life. The only "choice" any of us makes is whether or not act upon our natural disposition.

Anyway, do read the rest of this thread, if you don't succumb to a migraine by the 150th post or so. The "backlash" is not based on a single post.

I also find the question of the poster's age perfectly reasonable; I've found that rigid attitudes are usually the result of extreme youth, and/or limited social exposure. People generally mellow as they age, and while genuine conservatives may not evolve into liberals, the older we get, the more willing most of us are to at least accept the existence of ideas and values contrary to our own, whether we like them or not, or whether we can change them or not.

And before anybody calls me a hypocrite, I can accept the fact that a lot of people will never see things the way I do. What I cannot accept is the knowledge that some people will always refuse to even try to understand the other side.