Poll: Is it wrong to automatically assume some is heterosexual?

[Scde2]

It's not wrong, just gets a little irritating when people assume I'm straight because I'll then feel the need to correct them and I dislike telling most people that I am gay. How would most straight people react if most people assumed they were gay? But it's not offensive in the slightest and it's a reasonable assumption to make.

 

[sam42ification]

Right, and a world in which being gay is viewed as some kind of abnormality (which is unfortunately common) is only possible with a hetero-normative worldview; like 'people are straight and to treat everyone like they are straight is fine because it's statistically more common. Anyone who is gay/bi is awkward and should just deal with it.'

That kind of what i said in my first comment. That it is normal just to asume that. What i also said is that in the future it shouldn't be like that. "Anyone who is gay/bi is awkward and should just deal with"???? Thats just being a dick.

'in the future'... Why wait?

I agree but because a lot of the people in parlement are old close minded dicks and won't allow gay/lesbain marrage. Plus there are a lot of old close minded dicks supportin them. (Or at least in Australia not sure how it is else where).

 

[GotMalkAvian]

Since roughly 9/10 of the population still identify as straight, I don't really think it's wrong to assume that someone falls into that category. To me, it's the same as assuming that someone doesn't have cancer or assuming that someone doesn't play D&D. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with being gay at all (hell, I'm starting to think I swing a bit that way, myself) but it's definitely not the social norm by a longshot.

Likewise, I won't take offense if a gay man flirts with me. I will politely tell him that I'm flattered but not interested. I would expect the same courtesy if I ever flirt with a gay woman. We've all hit on someone who wasn't interested or been hit on by someone who didn't interest us, so why should the person's genitalia really change the situation that much?

 

[zombiestrangler]

Usually no. But there are certain criteria that can point towards the person not being hetero.