Orlando: One of the gayest cities in the U.S. (Davie: student loan, how much)

[g0gat0rs]

Originally Posted by sibelian

You obviously feel angry and threatened by gay people trying to live their lives. That's too bad. Because who someone marries, or kisses, or sleeps with, is simply none of your f**king business. Take your "chick" to Dairy Queen and try to get over it, because the tide of present events is going to carry you out to sea.

I don't care enough about gays to feel angry or be threatened by them. I just find it hilarious that they think they're in now with the norm when that's far from the truth. Half the rainbow defenders on here are the same ones that look twice at a gay couple, u know the quick 2nd glance to see if what they see is really happening. It's not because they're trying to see what they're wearing either. It's because homosexuality is unnatural and that's their innate response to gayness. Another natural reaction is when a gay starts acting all flamboyant in public you stare at them. You can lie to yourself and say you're staring at them as you'd stare at another person causing noise but deep down inside why're you really staring at him? It's because you cant believe your eyes that a man is acting like a girl because that is your natural reaction. Next time you're in public, observe your natural reaction to gays and their gayness. You'd be surprised at your natural reaction to homosexuality. Of course most of you will lie and say "no I felt the same when I looked at a man/woman couple holding hands walking down the street as I did with a man/man couple." But remember, truth shall set you free. Be honest with yourself.

[brinkofsunshine]

Originally Posted by g0gat0rs

I don't care enough about gays to feel angry or be threatened by them. I just find it hilarious that they think they're in now with the norm when that's far from the truth. Half the rainbow defenders on here are the same ones that look twice at a gay couple, u know the quick 2nd glance to see if what they see is really happening. It's not because they're trying to see what they're wearing either. It's because homosexuality is unnatural and that's their innate response to gayness. Another natural reaction is when a gay starts acting all flamboyant in public you stare at them. You can lie to yourself and say you're staring at them as you'd stare at another person causing noise but deep down inside why're you really staring at him? It's because you cant believe your eyes that a man is acting like a girl because that is your natural reaction. Next time you're in public, observe your natural reaction to gays and their gayness. You'd be surprised at your natural reaction to homosexuality. Of course most of you will lie and say "no I felt the same when I looked at a man/woman couple holding hands walking down the street as I did with a man/man couple." But remember, truth shall set you free. Be honest with yourself.

How can you make a blanket statement, as if ALL people act the same way you do? Here's my experience: I simply don't notice them. Because they're just people. I've never noticed a gay man "acting all flamboyant in public". Or maybe even if I have it just doesn't bother me at all.

[IAm_FloridaBorn]

Yes, Yes, Orlando is a VERY HAPPY CITY!

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by g0gat0rs

I don't care enough about gays to feel angry or be threatened by them. I just find it hilarious that they think they're in now with the norm when that's far from the truth. Half the rainbow defenders on here are the same ones that look twice at a gay couple, u know the quick 2nd glance to see if what they see is really happening. It's not because they're trying to see what they're wearing either. It's because homosexuality is unnatural and that's their innate response to gayness. Another natural reaction is when a gay starts acting all flamboyant in public you stare at them. You can lie to yourself and say you're staring at them as you'd stare at another person causing noise but deep down inside why're you really staring at him? It's because you cant believe your eyes that a man is acting like a girl because that is your natural reaction. Next time you're in public, observe your natural reaction to gays and their gayness. You'd be surprised at your natural reaction to homosexuality. Of course most of you will lie and say "no I felt the same when I looked at a man/woman couple holding hands walking down the street as I did with a man/man couple." But remember, truth shall set you free. Be honest with yourself.

I'm sure a world where everyone acts on gut reaction instead of measured thought would be a great place. This line of thinking will not set you or anyone else free, unless your Utopian society emulates that of a maximum security prison and the bonds that like-minded individuals form within them.

[GLS2010]

Originally Posted by DavieJ89

One of my best friends whom I've known since high school recnetly came out to me. I might join him at P-House, Pulse, or Revs for a drink sometime. Im not gay nor am I interested in that "lifestyle" (sorry if that offended anyone, I didnt know how else to put it) but he is one of my best friends and Im supportive of whatever path he finds himself on

Really Orl? Straight girls go to the gay clubs?

And I've been wasting all my time and money at Vintage, Antigua, The Beacham, and Finnhenry's

Many. Sometimes you'll even find straight guys at the gay clubs. One time I went to pulse with a girl who is straight and she ended up meeting and kissing a straight guy there. This was on college night, our generation is very open minded when it comes to sexuality.

[GLS2010]

Originally Posted by g0gat0rs

I don't care enough about gays to feel angry or be threatened by them. I just find it hilarious that they think they're in now with the norm when that's far from the truth. Half the rainbow defenders on here are the same ones that look twice at a gay couple, u know the quick 2nd glance to see if what they see is really happening. It's not because they're trying to see what they're wearing either. It's because homosexuality is unnatural and that's their innate response to gayness. Another natural reaction is when a gay starts acting all flamboyant in public you stare at them. You can lie to yourself and say you're staring at them as you'd stare at another person causing noise but deep down inside why're you really staring at him? It's because you cant believe your eyes that a man is acting like a girl because that is your natural reaction. Next time you're in public, observe your natural reaction to gays and their gayness. You'd be surprised at your natural reaction to homosexuality. Of course most of you will lie and say "no I felt the same when I looked at a man/woman couple holding hands walking down the street as I did with a man/man couple." But remember, truth shall set you free. Be honest with yourself.

g0gat0rs, I cant believe what I'm reading. I have been part of many discussions with you on this website for the past few years and you were always one of my favorite posters. We always agreed with one another. I am shocked you think the way you do on the topic of homosexuals. I my self am gay, I have been gay for as far back as my memory can go. I may not have admitted it until recent years but I have always been gay. I bet if you saw me in public or heard me talk you wouldn't be able to recognize me as a gay guy. If I could choose to be straight I would because it would be so much easier to live in society, most gay people feel the same but we can't change who we are. For that reason we embrace who we are and we aren't afraid to be ourselves, everyone deserves to be who they are and live their life. Yes some people may look twice at gay couples (especially older people and closed minded people) because for so many generations the gay lifestyle has been ridiculed, causing gay people to live there whole lives in a lie, unhappy just so they can please other people. Gay couples are becoming more common in public now-a-days because it is finally becoming more accepted, more than ever. Its about time, and its only going to become more "normal" as time goes on so I would advise you to get used to it.

[DavieJ89]

Having met GLS, I can vouch for what he said about not being able to recognize him as a gay

I had no idea myself until he said so just now. I'll admit it came as a surprise

[FloridaNative35]

I can't believe this thread is still going on. You cannot reason with g0gat0rs, because people like that are not reasonable. Sad for him.

[Spring Hillian]

It all sounds about right to me.

Originally Posted by sibelian

Certainly a candidate for the most idiotic post of 2012, and the year isn't even half-finished.

You've just listed, by the measure of many commentators and magazines, the most desirable places to live in the USA, with lower rates of joblessness and higher percentages of people with college degrees, as well as greater access to culture, advanced medical care, and recreational activities. These are the cities of the future, where new economies will grow because of high-productivity knowledge bases and low cost of living. See, for example, Business - Derek Thompson - Recovery, Part III: Why These 20 Cities Are Leading the New Economy - The Atlantic. Although I have no doubt you'll find some trite way to discredit the conclusions.

What I find more objectionable, and more typical, is your unstated but clear insinuation that "predator = gay = pedophile = lowlife". Most perpetrators of child sexual abuse are men, and the vast majority of them are either heterosexual, or unclassified ... because many child molesters don't have an adult sexual orientation; they are fixated or stuck at an early stage of psycho-sexual development, or are regressed. Their sexual attractions are based on age, not gender or sexual orientation. Further, your insinuation confuses the gender of the victim (most are boys) and the presumed sexual orientation of the perpetrator. Thus, if it's male on male abuse, you assume that the perpetrator is gay. Wrong. This issue has been well-studied and there is simply no linkage between homosexuality and child molestation. See, for example, Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation.

If you want to live in some inbred, insular conclave, where everyone thinks alike, looks alike, and knows each other's business, and the highlight of the week is the potluck at the pentecostal church down the road, more power to you. But your empty-headed dismissal of Orlando and the other cities as "cesspools" filled with "lowlifes" is indicative of a mindset that is, to put it politely, hysterically fearful, judgmental, and closed.

[Soup Not See]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

It all sounds about right to me.

There's an obvious problem with comprehension on this board ... read my response to the post you just quoted ...