From: littles@lycos.co.uk
I've seen this happen too often in the gay
community. Why single out any one particular community? It happens in every community, throughout the whole of society, every minute of every day.
I think you _know_ what I'm talking about.
Alas no, not being gifted with telepathy nor having any direct experience of the gay community. Perhaps you could care to elaborate.
Reality is
constructed for us from birth. We are 'fed a steady diet' of something we like to think of as 'reality' throughout our lives, whether it's nude art or billboard posters for jeans.
And these don't affect our perceptions? I'd like to see the social
scientists on the Lyst come in on this one.
Of course they affect our perceptions. Our perceptions are affected from the moment we're born, if not before. It's impossible to live without having one's perceptions affected.
Not, however, as disturbing as sly insinuations of homophobia.
Neil, to accuse me of homophobia is like accusing the pope of being
anti-Catholic. Let's just say when I speak of the gay community, I speak from personal experience ;)...
Well, I'm afraid it read like a sly insinuation, and to have any substance it would have to involve at least some measure of experience of that community. But since you don't elaborate on the nature of your reservations or the reasoning behind them, your fleeting negative remark becomes encrypted in phobic irrationality.
Neil