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"6. Are we ready for marriage? I do not believe so, nor do I have a reason to put time into fighting for it." Gee, thanks for speaking for us. Well, maybe *YOU* aren't ready for it but I don't think those of us who WANT to get married have you in mind. I find your comments show a great sense of arrogance, as you seem to think that you can speak for all of us. The fact of the matter is you can only speak for yourself.
My responses to your other comments: "Maybe once I see signs of the community truly coming together and giving a rip, but also finding somebody to spend my life with... I've been finding Mr. Right for 9 years now and none of us (myself included) is ready or possibly even capable." So it's all about you? How wonderfully short sited. A pity that if you ever *DO* find someone to spend the rest of your life with, you won't be able to enjoy it due to all the laws passed against gay marriage. A pity you aren't thinking about the long term implications of such laws, instead of just how it'd effect *YOU* instead of other people. You blame the community for not "giving a rip", yet aren't you the shining example of someone within the community of not caring?
"If your lover betrayed you, would you help him the next time he asks for it? Chances are you'd say yes. But what if he kept betraying you? At what point do you decide he ain't worth it anymore? That is how I feel with the gay community." And how has the gay community betrayed you? I wasn't aware that an entire community *owed* anyone anything. That is a very odd way of looking at things.
"and there are reasons why I am not shedding details... Well without details, your posts look incredibly supercilious. Maybe that isn't your intent, I don't know but that is the way you are coming off to me. You are painting everyone with a big broad brush, and honestly I can't think of anything at all which would justify it. Especially seeing as how your statements can only reflect YOUR thoughts and YOUR opinions and not the thoughts or experiences of everyone else.
"There are things I will still speak my mind for, have no doubts. We're still a community, even if I am the mauve sheep of the family. The little freak that's good for poking at." Still not making any sense.
"That is my point and I will not be called a freeper for it. I don't think you're a freeper, I think you are either narcissistic, highly misguided or both.
"People who are attracted to one another do so out of self interest. It is a mutual exchange of two fantasies. This is not love, this is lust. and this isn't freeper thinking either. This is dispassionate, stoic observation of an incontrovertible fact regarding human nature: Self-interest." Do I even have to justify this with a response? Honestly, if you actually believe that line I pity you.
Let's face it, this thread has NOTHING to do with marriage and some personal beef that you have with "the community". Because, that is the only way anything you've said in this thread makes any sense.
Either that, or you've been attending one of those Christian "cure the gay" camps and are being brainwashed. Either one is likely. Honestly, I pity you more than anything. I pity you for being short sited, and I pity you for the fact you seem to be under some illusion that you are owned something. (Fact: You're not owed anything. Sorry. No one is owed anything.)
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