How has your view of the LGBT community changed over time?

[Jarrad]

Wow, way to blow this out of proportion.

1. I do not like when members of the LGBT community want to full-on make out in public. This goes for anyone actually. Keep that in the bedroom!
2. That has nothing to do with it. It is okay to show affection for those you love in public, but there is a limit for how much you really should show.

It's not blowing it out of proportion. I'm merely asking why you have those views. You're kind of exaggerating, by doing so you've blown it out of proportion!

I'm confused. Why would you make a comment about public affection specifically in a LGBT thread when you said yourself it applies to all genders/sexualities? Clearly you must have something against LGBT people kissing in public, otherwise you wouldn't have bothered to make the comment in the first place, since you said yourself it "goes for anyone", thus not a related issue to the thread's topic?

(Sorry if this is too confronting. I'm honestly not trying to start an argument, but stuff like this bothers me).

Best wishes! Hope you're okay, friend! x

 

[Wolfycheeks]

Wait I'm confused, how are you sort of bisexual. I don't mean this in like, a patronizing way, I'm legitimately curious.

Usually when people say they're bisexual, it means they like another gender somewhere between equally and almost not at all, and anything in that range would qualify, so why do you identify as sort of? Are you questioning?

Well, I think they call it like, biromantic..? When you're romantically attracted to both, but not sexually? I have no clue..

 

[That Zephyr Guy]

Well, I think they call it like, biromantic..? When you're romantically attracted to both, but not sexually? I have no clue..

Ah okay. Yeah you'd be right.

 

[Jarrad]

Well, I think they call it like, biromantic..? When you're romantically attracted to both, but not sexually? I have no clue..

..y r u ritin like mouse

 

[Wolfycheeks]

..y r u ritin like mouse

because i think this font is ugly and way too big.. i've always used this font for all forums, maybe i'm just used to it.

 

[Jarrad]

because i think this font is ugly and way too big.. i've always used this font for all forums, maybe i'm just used to it.

Does it not get annoying writing the [size1]s every time you want to make a post?

 

[radical6]

but it's way more ok for cishets to talk about being cishet than ti is for lgbtq+ ppl to talk about being lgbtq+. like everything can be cishet. but if something is lgbtq+ it's "forced" or ppl think that "the gays are taking over !!!"

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ppl think theyre lgbtq+ positive but they get upset about ppl being too lgbtq+
lmao

saying this is cisheterophobia.......

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reaslly..for a community of love...to be so HATEFUL!@@@

 

[Jarrad]

saying this is cisheterophobia.......

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reaslly..for a community of love...to be so HATEFUL!@@@

..no it's not?

I don't even know what cishet is but I can tell you the comment that guy made wasn't "cisheterophobic" lol

 

[radical6]

..no it's not?

I don't even know what cishet is but I can tell you the comment that guy made wasn't "cisheterophobic" lol

it is LITERALLY cisheterophobic and means you hate CISHETS...........

 

[Jared:3]

Omg I would so date this guy who made the thread

 

[Jarrad]

it is LITERALLY cisheterophobic and means you hate CISHETS...........

He didn't say he hates cishets though, so how is he cisheterophobic?

Nothing he's wrote could be seen as offensive to a cishet so why is it so?

 

[Miharu]

My opinion has never changed. I've never once thought it was bad for people to love/date the same gender. The way I see it, is if they love/like each other, then they like each other. That's just how it is. When you love someone you just.. well.. love them. XD It's really no one's else business but theirs. Just like how we have our own preferences, they have theirs.

 

[seliph]

We Are All Cisheterophobic

 

[That Zephyr Guy]

We Are All Cisheterophobic

to access the tumble-er dot comm you have to go outside and beat up a cishet

only then are you given your down with cis tshirt and a code with your url

 

[Elijo]

As a child I never thought that people could be transgender or a sexual orientation other than straight. My "logic" was either: "You either romantically liked someone of the "opposite" gender or you didn't like anyone at all." I basically thought that they didn't exist. Despite me having these particular beliefs, I still always thought myself as a boy. I also thought that I was those people who couldn't like anyone. People just told me that I was just being a tomboy and that it would pass when I was older.

When I was 11, I found out that people at school were dating people of the same gender and I was honestly surprised and also confused, but I didn't put too much thought into it.

When I was 13 I finally had my first actual crush... then several more over the next few years. I seemed to romantically like people of multiple genders; not just the "opposite" gender. I also found out about the transgender umbrella and soon I discovered that I was actually trans ftm myself. I am still not entirely sure about my sexual orientation, but I can tell that I am Panromatic (can be romantically attracted to a person regardless of their gender). My sister had a best friend who is Asexual and I became very open of people in the LGBT+ community (most of my friends are part of the community in some way). I'm rambling on too much now.

 

[pocky]

I had my first encounter with a transgender person when I was 11 years old. I was in middle school and there was this guy (also 11) who went by the name of Jay I never paid much attention to him but near the end of the school year when yearbooks came out one of the kids in my class pointed out that Jay was listed as 'Jessica' in the yearbook. A bunch of other boys then joined in and started telling everyone things like 'Jay is a girl. I went to elementary school with her.' Jay wasn't in the same classroom with us but the information spread like wildfire.

I didn't join in on it but I remember being very confused by the whole concept. I didn't realize that there was a difference between sex and gender so I wasn't sure of what to call him in terms of pronouns. When I went home that day I asked my mom about it, but at this point in time we had just recently moved to the US from a 3rd world country so my mom wasn't able to educate me on the subject either as those aren't things that are talked about back home. Basically people back there are extremely closed minded when it comes to the subject (even more so than in the US)

My mom wasn't closed minded like the people back home, but at the same time she had no information to educate me with. She did tell me that if Jay introduced himself as a he then I should respect him and refer to him using male pronouns. She also advised me against telling other people about Jay's biological sex and that the choice to tell someone was his and nobody else's. I didn't worry much about Jay's gender after this but I was still pretty uninformed about the whole subject.

The next year Jay didn't show up for school, he had transferred to another Middle School because of all of the bullying. I didn't see him again until High School. By then I was a lot more knowledgeable of LGBT issues, but I still didn't know enough about trans issues even though I was a bit more educated than I had been years earlier. I do remember that I felt sorry for him when I saw him again because he seemed like such a sad person, he had gotten into trouble with the law too so every time I saw him I wondered about what was going inside of his mind. I think it was around that point that something really clicked in my head and I realized that Jay wasn't hurting anyone, and that it wasn't fair for him to suffer just because others didn't understand that he was being himself. Not that I had thought that he was hurting anyone before or that he deserved any of the ridicule, but I had just been so concerned with what to call him that I hadn't stopped to realize that he was a person just like me.

Now I'm 24 years old and I've met my fair share of transgender people. Two of them are very close friends of mine, best friends even. So they've educated me a lot on the subject and I've educated my parents also. I still get a little embarrassed when I think of how I used to see the world, but I think that it is important to share these sorts of stories. A lot of transphobia and homophobia comes out of ignorance so I like to remind people that others can change.

 

[p e p p e r]

It hasn't really changed, I've never thought it was a big deal & I've always had gay friends. Who people choose to love is no one else's business

 

[KarlaKGB]

..no it's not?

I don't even know what cishet is but I can tell you the comment that guy made wasn't "cisheterophobic" lol

lol how can u say something isnt cisheterophobic when u dont even kno what cishet is. wat a cretin

 

[Mellyjan3]

Glad I read this so I know who not to befriend on here.
Idk if being a person belonging to the LGBT community affected it but my view has always been the same. There's literally nothing wrong with it. Gay people are no more weird and obnoxious than straight people, there is nothing that differentiates them from me and you except who they sleep with and love. They're humans like us. I grew up with Jehovahs witness parents, who are now split, but my mother never forced any belief on me. She's made it clear ahe doesn't think we deserve children and stupid **** but she has gay friends and doesn't let her religious views affect friendships, she always says as long as she doesn't have to hear about what goes on she doesn't care. I've also never came out as being polyamorous or interested in both sexes because I know as much as she loves me it would bother her.
And yeah, I will admit I was really ****ing annoyed when all these specific terms started being used to define what you are, who/what you identify as because people were identifying as lampshades and ridiculous things, but I do love the awareness it has brought, and how much help its been for people like me who never understood there was others like myself, and words I could use to express who I am simpler.

 

[visibleghost]

it is LITERALLY cisheterophobic and means you hate CISHETS...........

down w the cis
make it illegal for heteros to marry
[that oraclw from animal crossing voice] YEEEEEEEE

nah but srsly i love when cishets accuse others of being cishetphobic it's my fav thing

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Omg I would so date this guy who made the thread

xer is a girl tho .. ):

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also @ pocky damn those middle school kids should **** off. i hope jay is doing alright now smh