It needs to be studied without bias is what I said.
There is a 1948 film starring Olivia de Havilland called “The Snake Pit,” in which it shows the horrors (at that time) that occur in a mental institution. I don’t know whether the film is based on a novel, however.
Deep breath… Ok. You have no idea what what SHE went through. Transgender people feel as though they are born in the wrong body. They go through life struggling with themselves. They often hate themselves, no matter how kind some people are. How do you think you can judge someone based on an article written about them. For that matter, what gives you the right to judge anyway? May he who is without sin cast the first stone. You did not know this girl, or the struggles she went through. People like you react negatively to transgender people, and only fosters the self-hate they already have. This should be a message for others to be more loving and accepting, not to beat trans people down.
But judging someone based on comments on an internet forum and then categorizing them as “people like you” followed ironically with a quote from Mother Teresa that isn’t exactly being followed in your own comment is ok?
I’m always a little puzzled as to what people mean exactly when they talk about a “homosexual lifestyle”. For example, is it part of a “homosexual lifestyle” when a homosexual person goes to work five days per week, goes home (sometimes to a partner or spouse) every evening, makes dinner at home most evenings or goes out to eat from time-to-time, watches TV some evenings or reads a book lying on the couch other evenings, goes to church or Mass on Sundays, etc.? When a heterosexual person does all those things, is that a “heterosexual lifestyle”?
I believe they are referring to homosexual sexual activity, or at least that’s what I mean when I use the term. I think the confusion comes from people defining homosexuals solely by their sexual practices.I’m always a little puzzled as to what people mean exactly when they talk about a “homosexual lifestyle”. For example, is it part of a “homosexual lifestyle” when a homosexual person goes to work five days per week, goes home (sometimes to a partner or spouse) every evening, makes dinner at home most evenings or goes out to eat from time-to-time, watches TV some evenings or reads a book lying on the couch other evenings, goes to church or Mass on Sundays, etc.? When a heterosexual person does all those things, is that a “heterosexual lifestyle”?
Thank you.
If a gay man has sex a few times per week with his partner or spouse, that’s hardly a “lifestyle”. According to Wikipedia, “The term Lifestyle can denote the interests, opinions, behaviors, and behavioral orientations of an individual, group, or culture.” In many cases, the “lifestyle” of many homosexuals is hardly different from that of heterosexuals, except for their sexual orientation. For example, I have friends who are gay Republicans and except for what they do in bed and their opinions about the morality of homosexuality, they are quite conservative and are hardly distinguishable in most respects from other Republicans.
There are also people with same-sex attraction who are not for same-sex marriages. Perhaps those are the kinds of things I am talking about in being accepted or not, same-sex marriages.If a gay man has sex a few times per week with his partner or spouse, that’s hardly a “lifestyle”. According to Wikipedia, “The term Lifestyle can denote the interests, opinions, behaviors, and behavioral orientations of an individual, group, or culture.” In many cases, the “lifestyle” of many homosexuals is hardly different from that of heterosexuals, except for their sexual orientation. For example, I have friends who are gay Republicans and except for what they do in bed and their opinions about the morality of homosexuality, they are quite conservative and are hardly distinguishable in most respects from other Republicans.
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So a gay man having sex a few times per week with his partner or spouse isn’t a lifestyle because it isn’t, using your definition- a behavior or behavioral orientation? And this idea that it isn’t a lifestyle because it somehow doesn’t classify as a behavior or behavioral orientation is furthered by heterosexuals engaging in heterosexual sexual activities also not qualifying as a behavior or behavioral orientation?If a gay man has sex a few times per week with his partner or spouse, that’s hardly a “lifestyle”. According to Wikipedia, “The term Lifestyle can denote the interests, opinions, behaviors, and behavioral orientations of an individual, group, or culture.” In many cases, the “lifestyle” of many homosexuals is hardly different from that of heterosexuals, except for their sexual orientation. For example, I have friends who are gay Republicans and except for what they do in bed and their opinions about the morality of homosexuality, they are quite conservative and are hardly distinguishable in most respects from other Republicans.
Um…that is not a point of ‘confusion’ about the definition.
I apparently selected my words poorly. What I was referring to was the idea that everything a homosexual person does somehow is part of the “gay lifestyle” based solely on the fact that said homosexual may engage in homosexual sex. I have seen other people classify something as part of the “gay lifestyle” solely because the individual doing it was homosexual.
Let’s say that this youth was “only” suffering from depression. This is a legitimate sickness that greatly affects one’s behaviors, attitudes, and thoughts. If she had been suffering from a brain tumor, I doubt we’d be arguing about her suicide note – we’d likely chalk up her language and anger to her illness. Those suffering from serious depression usually lose all perspective. It’s not surprising to me that she was not behaving in a stable way or that she was filled with anger – depression often leads to such reactions. And 17-year-olds actually aren’t as able to manage depression. The human brain isn’t even fully developed until 25 years or so, and that goes for the decision-making portions of the brain, too. I think we have to consider that she was legitimately ill and her ultimate choices were heavily flavored by this fact.
Thanks for the link!
People pushing the concept that homosexual relationships are no different with heterosexual relationships want you and me to stop using the phrase “homosexual lifestyle,” another way to normalize and have everyone accept it. Of course, when it is used by most people, it is not meant to refer to activities like going to the market or watching tv, or a preference for jazz over rock, etc. Homosexual lifestyle is being in a same sex relationship, or one who is looking for a same sex partner, believing in same sex legal unions / “marriage”, forming a family, as though gay parenting is equivalent to traditional parenting. IOW, this is conditioning, another thought control via language control. Just like how “gay” and “homophobia” came to be common usage, their current meanings not anywhere near the original denotation or connotation.
It shouldn’t be accepted as good.