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viraptor 6y ago
Sexual attraction and discrimination can coexist. See a large number of secretly gay politicians fighting against gay rights.
- bityard 6y ago
  If their preference is secret, how can you know there are large numbers of them?
  - happytoexplain 6y ago
    Formerly secret, and perhaps extrapolating (surely for N > 0 discovered cases, there are M > 0 still secret cases, since it seems unlikely to have a 100% reveal rate). And "large numbers" is highly subjective in this case. It would be reasonable to consider two to be a high number for something so surprising.
  - MikeTheGreat 6y ago
    "See a large number of formerly, secretly, gay, politicians fighting against gay rights." There, fixed that for you Mostly unrelated: That's also the correct use of an Oxford/serial comma, yes?
    - nkurz 6y ago
      > That's also the correct use of an Oxford/serial comma, yes? In the off chance you were being serious, no. An Oxford comma goes (or doesn't go) after the second to last (penultimate) item, not after the final. And even then it's only used when there's a conjunction between the penultimate and last item.
      - MikeTheGreat 6y ago
        I was - thank you for the clarification! :)
  - viraptor 6y ago
    I mean large in a relative sense. If there is a known small number of elected people, and we know that only few of them will be gay/bi, and we still find out every year or so that someone loudly campaigning against gay rights visited same-sex prostitutes or has a stash of related porn... Then either it's common or there's some weird correlation between that behaviour and drive for powerful positions.
    - ponker 6y ago
      A great explanation of this that I read somewhere was that only a gay person could believe the doomsday scenario of homosexuality ending human reproduction. A gay person thinks “huh that’s scary, what if everyone is like me” while a straight person thinks “I have 4 kids, how could that possibly happen.”

Sexual attraction and discrimination can coexist. See a large number of secretly gay politicians fighting against gay rights.

bityard 6y ago
If their preference is secret, how can you know there are large numbers of them?
- happytoexplain 6y ago
  Formerly secret, and perhaps extrapolating (surely for N > 0 discovered cases, there are M > 0 still secret cases, since it seems unlikely to have a 100% reveal rate). And "large numbers" is highly subjective in this case. It would be reasonable to consider two to be a high number for something so surprising.
- MikeTheGreat 6y ago
  "See a large number of formerly, secretly, gay, politicians fighting against gay rights." There, fixed that for you Mostly unrelated: That's also the correct use of an Oxford/serial comma, yes?
  - nkurz 6y ago
    > That's also the correct use of an Oxford/serial comma, yes? In the off chance you were being serious, no. An Oxford comma goes (or doesn't go) after the second to last (penultimate) item, not after the final. And even then it's only used when there's a conjunction between the penultimate and last item.
    - MikeTheGreat 6y ago
      I was - thank you for the clarification! :)
- viraptor 6y ago
  I mean large in a relative sense. If there is a known small number of elected people, and we know that only few of them will be gay/bi, and we still find out every year or so that someone loudly campaigning against gay rights visited same-sex prostitutes or has a stash of related porn... Then either it's common or there's some weird correlation between that behaviour and drive for powerful positions.
  - ponker 6y ago
    A great explanation of this that I read somewhere was that only a gay person could believe the doomsday scenario of homosexuality ending human reproduction. A gay person thinks “huh that’s scary, what if everyone is like me” while a straight person thinks “I have 4 kids, how could that possibly happen.”