Gay men - a question?

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interesting question. I have two possible factors for your consideration. One is that men (or women) who have arrived at a gay identity have had to re- invent their sexuality from the ground up, and therefore have given it far more thought than the average straight person. The other possibility is simplythat gay men, like women, are generally more verbal than straight men. (Just imagine a gay man, a woman, and a straight man in a room together: generally it's a good bet that most of the conversation will be between the gay man and the woman.)

Studies show that just as males in the aggregate are statistically better than females at the "pure" sciences, math etc; so females on average show an edge in verbal skill, at all ages. I suspect that if homosexual men/boys were tested separately they would be found to have aptitudes more similar to women's than men's; ie, more adept at language than math.

Just a theory!
 

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headbang8 said:
Not sure if I'm a smart gay guy, but the answer in my case is no.

same answer. i aint smart, but will respond. :smile:

mom is a franklin roosevelt/lyndon johnson democrat. thinks the government should take care of almost everything. she dislikes abortion alot and is pretty religious.

my father liked "i'm not a crook" nixon. no, he/we were not wealthy at all. he once commented when i was a kid about a neighbor as she walked down the street - "damn gypsy". she was wearing stereotyped early 70s attire; looked like janis joplin. nope. hard to argue this man was liberal.

nineinch made a comment earlier that i've heard before from others. "most people here are gay males". not sure i agree with that, and strangely enough, i hope it does not become true. one thing i like about the board is that it seemed to be a melting pot of straight, gay, in between, women, and different locations. have never sifted through the member list and documented the numbers obviously. maybe we homos just post more.
especially lately.
 

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Yes GoneA, I put the term "gay world" in parenthesis, as I was fairly sure that my ignorance of this whole area might lead me to use inappropraite terms. Your subsequent points are very fair - I am sure that I do carry some cultural prejudices that if you dug deep enough you could "out".

However I think that Majormadness makes a very good point (and without wishing to be patronising, he is eighteen, so I am extra impressed), that if you do not conform to the stereotypical, some may have to question exactly what is going on in the world around them.

This is clearly a difficult thing to do and requires great use of reason and perhaps study. Those who are just able to fit in to the "norm", don't have to think too hard.

PS - Funnily, I was thinking about lesbians in this context, as I actually have more experience there, but felt that it was not really surprising that lesbians are not that well represented on a site about large penises.
 

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Lordpendragon said:
Yes GoneA, I put the term "gay world" in parenthesis, as I was fairly sure that my ignorance of this whole area might lead me to use inappropraite terms. Your subsequent points are very fair - I am sure that I do carry some cultural prejudices that if you dug deep enough you could "out".

However I think that Majormadness makes a very good point (and without wishing to be patronising, he is eighteen, so I am extra impressed), that if you do not conform to the stereotypical, some may have to question exactly what is going on in the world around them.

This is clearly a difficult thing to do and requires great use of reason and perhaps study. Those who are just able to fit in to the "norm", don't have to think too hard.

PS - Funnily, I was thinking about lesbians in this context, as I actually have more experience there, but felt that it was not really surprising that lesbians are not that well represented on a site about large penises.

i haven't seen anything really wrong with your posts. my world is different from yours. everybody's is. people should look inside to see the real intent versus focusing on minor word choices. you seem like you are trying to educate yourself to other types of people. excellent.

some homophobe saying "homosexual lifestyle" makes my blood berl. ooooo.
but thats not the case here.
 

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majormadness said:
Are you joking? I dare you to find a single god-damn book in all of WeHo.

But anyways, there does seem to be a disproportionate amount of great gay thinkers, considering that we only make up about 3-4% of the population. I have a theory about this. I think that for any person able understand their homosexuality has a nature of asking questions, observing, and handling big thoughts. That is exemplified by their ability to defy many elements and discover their true nature. Such question-asking, observation, and big-thought-management also happens to be the cornerstone of science and academic study, as well as comedy (Seinfeld got a garage of Porches out of observations).

This quality is also present in any people that face adversity, thus making drunkard, closeted man's-men (i.e. - Ernest Hemingway), black women that were sexualy abused when younger (i.e. - Maya Angelou), or just plain honkeys that were beat up by their moms all their lives (i.e. - Dave Pelzer) into literary geniuses and the like. Adversity spawns creativity and management skills, which are also keystones of science, academics, and comedy.

So, in my half-asleep rant, I hope I gave you an answer...

Yes you did, and that was beautiful. It would have taken me three pages, haha.
 

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Dr. Dilznick said:
LPSG certainly has its fair share of wannabe intellectuals. Despite the overuse of "big words" their posts never contain any original or thought-provoking ideas; they're just an exercise in mental masturbation. Anyone with a university-level reading comprehension knows that being succinct and cogent is much more important than breaking out the thesaurus whenever possible.

Amen, brother. There is also a healthy contingent who consider google and wikipedia to be the most profound source of information. One poster who has now thankfully moved on to new trolldom and another who currently plagues the chatroom insist on trying to pass off inane wikipedia factoids as knowledge. Someone will say "I'm going to Prague tomorrow" and sure as shit he will pop up two minutes later with "There is a lovely bridge there called the Charles Bridge. My Czech is no longer what it once was or I would give you the name in that language."

Love you, Dilznick. Don't go changing.
 

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My question is why is the level of discussion on this board so diverse and deep? It constantly amazes me. I am sure I couldn't find this kind of stuff anywhere else on the Internet all in one place. There is something here that deserves an explanation. I just don't know what it is.
 

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dcwrestlefan said:
i haven't seen anything really wrong with your posts. my world is different from yours. everybody's is. people should look inside to see the real intent versus focusing on minor word choices. you seem like you are trying to educate yourself to other types of people. excellent.

some homophobe saying "homosexual lifestyle" makes my blood berl. ooooo.
but thats not the case here.

Okay, well, I guess you're referring to my post, so I'll say that I chose to post about his word choice because I felt it provided a deeper insight into his question. I didn't think (or indicate, really) that his use of the term "gay world" pointed to his (nonexistent) ignorance on the matter.

I do agree that he is trying to learn more about people and yes, that is excellent.
 

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Dr. Dilznick said:
Anyone with a university-level reading comprehension knows that being succinct and cogent is much more important than breaking out the thesaurus whenever possible.

Very nice when people practice clear communication like that plus understand and translate to me in simple words what i myself trying to say. And when they know how to explain complicated things with simplicity... Its very very nice! Thank you.

Nice too when we see real real wealth , rich, 'important' people living very simple life style and just human nice, not pompous or distant or whatever. They are not impress with things and are just real.

Well, there are people that are just plain 'likeble' and they become ours or we embrace them in some way.:smile: