Vorchev
25th June 2012, 13:05
A lot of people seem to forget what "gay" really means in the way of being joyfully out of place, and they don't seem to recognize that calling someone "gay" is a way of discreetly referring to homosexuality.
I don't really understand why calling someone "gay" is an insult. Is it because it's such a curt word that people don't like it?
Aside from that, there seems to be another problem - what about people who are actually gay, not homosexual?
For those who don't know, there are actually psychological disorders called "social anxiety disorder" and "histrionic personality disorder" which address this exact area. They concern people who feel giddy out of place, but aren't homosexual. I guess homosexuals can have these conditions too, but that's a different point.
This might be why many people believe you can condition homosexuals straight. In reality, you can't condition social anxious confident or histrionics coolheaded either. You can teach them what to obey, but that's emotional repression. Still, people treat these conditions as caused by the afflicted since emotions can be triggered by circumstances which people can anticipate.
As such, when homosexuals behave "gay", they're thought of as bringing it onto themselves for lacking confidence or not being coolheaded. Some homosexuals will even look at socially anxious or histrionics as potentially homosexual out of their own confusion.
What do you guys believe should be done about these conditions?
I don't really understand why calling someone "gay" is an insult. Is it because it's such a curt word that people don't like it?
Aside from that, there seems to be another problem - what about people who are actually gay, not homosexual?
For those who don't know, there are actually psychological disorders called "social anxiety disorder" and "histrionic personality disorder" which address this exact area. They concern people who feel giddy out of place, but aren't homosexual. I guess homosexuals can have these conditions too, but that's a different point.
This might be why many people believe you can condition homosexuals straight. In reality, you can't condition social anxious confident or histrionics coolheaded either. You can teach them what to obey, but that's emotional repression. Still, people treat these conditions as caused by the afflicted since emotions can be triggered by circumstances which people can anticipate.
As such, when homosexuals behave "gay", they're thought of as bringing it onto themselves for lacking confidence or not being coolheaded. Some homosexuals will even look at socially anxious or histrionics as potentially homosexual out of their own confusion.
What do you guys believe should be done about these conditions?