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    [–]pacmanla 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Under their terms, homosexuality will always be hateful or "phobic" because it's a pin in their "biological sex doesn't matter" balloon.

    I keep asking this question, regarding this statement. If homosexuality puts a pin in their "biological sex doesn't matter" balloon, what do they think of heterosexuality? Does it not also "put a pin in their balloon"? I'm curious as to why not attack heterosexuals so vehemently as they seem to be attacking the LGB portion within their own so called "community". I genuinely ask this as a heterosexual male, who's curious for answers. Is it just "vanilla" heterosexuals looking for a special definition, because being straight is too "boring"? People with serious mental issues? I'm really curious.

    [–]Taln_Reich 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Essentially, I think there's two reasons why LG people are more hit by that. The first is that commonly LGB-people are grouped with the transgender population. The second becomes clearer, when one considers that sexual orientation for transgender people is roughly one third opposite-gender, bisexual and same-gender each, which (since there is vastly less LGB-people than straight people) means that the ratio is highly skewed towards LGB-people being confronted by transgender people wanting to date them.

    (Note: I'm working on a spreadsheet regarding the latter reason, but I'm still missing what ratio of transgender people include/exclude bisexuals - whichmy preliminary back-of-the-envelope calculations have shown has a significant effect on the results)