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Are you sexist if you're gay? I think we can rest assured that sexual preference has nothing to do with being racist.
by jeremycw 12y ago
Are you sexist if you're gay? I think we can rest assured that sexual preference has nothing to do with being racist.
- TulliusCicero 12y ago> Are you sexist if you're gay? That's...a really interesting point.
- atom-morgan 12y agoExactly. It would be completely unacceptable to challenge a gay person's natural attraction to another person of their gender. How can they help who they're attracted to, right? Yet for a straight person...people almost immediately assume racism.
- A_COMPUTER 12y agoSexual orientation and sexual preference are not the same thing, though people argue where the line is. If you want to see a real shitstorm, see people arguing online if lesbians who sexually discriminate against transwomen are transphobic.
- tomp 12y agoPersonally, I see no difference. Also, if e.g. a straight person says they have experimented with the same sex, I take that as potential evidence that they only like a few members of the same sex, but (comparably) many more members of the opposite sex.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Sexual orientation and sexual preference are not the same thing, though people argue where the line is. Probably because there isn't a line. Rich and poor aren't the same thing, either, but there isn't a line between them either. Humans like clear binary categories (to the point of trying to force things into them) but reality often doesn't oblige by being neatly structured around them.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Are you sexist if you're gay? No more than if you are straight.