Jim,
I didn't comment directly on the video last week because the sheer cuntery of the thread pissed me off, but before I skip back and read the inevitable avalanche of bollocks, thank God for you and for both of these videos.
It's amazing to me that fans of Bioware, of all the fucking studios to rally around, still pull this shit at every game release, and I'm glad there are people like you willing to take the piss out of them for it.
Anyway, back to the bollocks.
Lord_Gremlin said:
Well now, I do have a problem with gay people. Aka they are sick in the head and whatever excuse medics came up in USA when they realized they can't cure them did not just made them normal... Look, curing schizophrenia is not easy either. If possible at all.
Firstly, schizophrenia is pretty easy to cure nowadays. Most people with schizophrenia are fine as long as they take basic medication for it, so your point is kind of doubly retarded really.
Secondly, if homosexuality is mental disorder, what
psychological dysfunction do you think causes it? Because I know all the things which "the medics" thought caused it when they made it a mental disorder, and they don't exist. Paraesthesia doesn't exist (incidentally, the theory of paeaesthesia is why dumb people believe there's a link between homosexuality and paedophilia). Hormone levels don't make any difference. Levels of attachment to parents don't make any difference.
Homosexuality wasn't removed from the DSM because it couldn't be cured, it was removed because the people who believed it was either couldn't agree on why they thought it was in the first place, or were basing their belief on completely rubbished theories. They were still quoting books from the 1870s to try and justify this point in the 1970s. Your argument lost because it was stupid, outdated and didn't work, it's that simple.
So go on. Why do you think homosexuality is a mental disorder? Tell me what you think "goes wrong" in someone's brain or in their mind to make them gay.
Callate said:
It appears that human bisexuality, at least among men, isn't all that common.
Yes, just like exclusive homosexuality among women "isn't all that common".
Why do you think that is? Is it because:
a) Gay men have a special gaydar which means that they know that they're gay from the second they pop out of the womb and instinctively avoid vaginas.
b) Because gay men have a strong community with its own distinct culture which lesbians lack on the same scale, and because.. well..
..(by which I mean female bisexuality is socially acceptable).
You can
never do this with sexuality. You can't just look at the census and say "well, that tells me everything I need to know." People often don't know much about their own sexuality, people repress things or even outright lie about their sexuality and as in this case people don't judge their sexuality against an objective standard which applies to everyone. It's not that simple, you can't judge the world as if it is.
I'm a bisexual man myself, and I can tell you that there are people have done a far more equal proportion of both sexes than me who still identify as gay (or as straight for that matter) because it's just easier. They feel "culturally" gay or straight and base their identity of that, and since bisexuality doesn't have the same cultural recognition it's a lot harder for men to identify with.