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Oh give me a f____ing break. That is the weakest, most tired and dishonest agrument that homophobes come up with. Nobody who looks honestly at the issue could ever believe it. Do you think a straight kid looks at the kid getting the crap beat out of him for being gay and says "oh, he looks like...

By the way, there is an online peition that you can sign in support of Lambda Istanbul. The site is: Lambdaistanbul Lezbiyen Gey Biseksüel Travesti Transseksüel Dayanýþma Derneði The Turkish authorities are used to just doing whatever they want with no consequences. Let them know the world...

36. Actually I think it's measuring queenliness, not gayness. If it were really measureing gayness, I'd have way different questions!

I have this sort of conversation all the time here: Why aren't you Muslim? -Why should I be? Because Islam is the true religion. -Why do you believe that? Because it says so in the Koran. -And why do you believe that's true? Because it came directly from God, so it's right! -And where...

True enough, there is no point in trying to argue with someone with the "my mind's made up, don't confuse me with facts" attitude! I probably misinterpreted your post, it just seemed very abrupt. Sometimes people really surprise me - the people who seem would be accepting end up distancing...

I can see a bit of both sides here, but I do *NOT* accept this attitude of "I'm paying so I get to treat you like crap" philosophy. Anyone who has ever worked as a waiter will know exactly what I'm talking about. People have bad days, bad weeks, bad years even. But the fact that I'm getting paid...

Yes, isn't the whole point learning to communicate as effectively as possible? After all, even hearing people use so many visual cues they learn themselves. Hand gestures, facial expressions, body position...even involuntary cues such as pupil size! Deaf people use a higher percentage of...

Hell, I'm hearing and I think I would have stopped her and told her to slow down too! I was in a department store with a friend, bought a sweater. The teenybopper behind the counter with her bubble hairdo looked and said: "Oh, like, wow, y'know, like that sweater is like, totally...

While I am very much against "oralism," I'd never dispute the need to be able to deal in English. In the US, pretty much every Deaf person I ever interacted with could function fairly effectively in English, if not necessarily eloquently or with perfect grammar. Here in Turkey it's very...

I lived for a long time in Seattle, which is overall a very liberal city. It's easy to forget that there are so many homophobes. I was reminded of it one night when I was walking down Broadway and a bunch of teenagers screaming "fucking faggots" drove by in a car and pelted me and others around...

I think it's important to remember this abour words: They have no meaning in and of themselves. They are just symbols. For what? For thoughts. Just like the shape "6" doesn't have anything that intrinsically means "six." It's a learned association. And as attitudes and thoughts change (over...

I bet they were real friends though. I think every gay person has to make these kind of decisions - "do I have lots of friends and hide myself or do I risk losing 'friends' and be myself?" You find out who your real friends are. Of course there are ways to respond and ways not to. Maybe with...

An important thing about language is that it changes constantly, there are always things becoming established, and falling out of favor. Grammatical gender (masculine and feminine nouns) disappeared from English about 800 years ago, while subjunctive is just now going the way of the dodo. While...

Actually, people try to reinvent oral language all the time! People go into tizzies about whether one should say "who" or "whom," "me" or "I," "gay" or "queer," "black" or "colored" or "negro" or African American." They have written artificial "universal languages" such as Esperanto...

It sounds like the mom needs to go get herself some help. Her denial of the situation not only keeps her from dealing effectively (and that is bad enough) but denying her kid any sort of communication is just majorly f___ed up. Does she think he's magically going to start hearing or learn to...

It's right down the hall! :)

It's been an education reading some of these but I guess mostly I'm not surprised because there is so much unawareness of so many things. But aside from a few true assholes (people who would actually make fun of anyone for how they speak - or don't, for example), I think most of the things...

She: "But that is so terrible!! You MUST have hearing aids! You won't be able to hear!!" **** Oh, how positively rude of you to have an experience and an opinion that did not match her personal sense of reality! And to consider being happy in a way that she would not! :lol: The world is...

I had exactly such an experience a couple months ago while flying from Minneapolis to Memphis - my ears weren't clearing on their own, and as we began to make our descent, I realized at one point that I heard no engine noise in the plane. It felt as if the plane were gliding, and I actually was...

A study showed that 80% of homophobic men registered considerable increase in penis size when showed pictures of gay sex. Why is that not surprising? ;) Q: You know the difference between a gay bar and a straight bar? A: In a gay bar, the homosexuals get a little bit drunk. In a straight...