• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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          You think being gay is just about sex? Is heterosexuality just about sex to you? If so, I feel bad for you not having any romance in your life.

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            Homosexuality is a myth made up by the clothing industry to sell all their pink fabric and peacock sunglasses

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      The point of this post is to point out that the argument of “teachers are corrupting kids into being gay by talking about it and having books with gay people”. The fact that most people are straight doesn’t factor into it at all, unless you mean that everybody is born straight, in which case you’re just wrong. Btw a useful thought experiment in general is to swap “gay” with left-handed. Would you ever say that being right-handed is the “default handedness”? Would you care if a teacher mentions being left-handed?

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        If you have a pretty loose definition of default, it’s easy to conclude that right-handedness is the default handedness. I wouldn’t be surprised if OP agreed with that idea.

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          Right, but at that point “default” becomes a useless term. Elsewhere in the thread OP said they’d raise their kids “heterosexually” or smth, and if they’re consistent with wanting to raise their kids the “default” way, they’d also want to raise their kids right-handedly, as girls (because women make up slightly more than 50% of the population), in Mandarin, etc etc. Nobody’s entirely default.

          Sure, you could say that right-handed is the default. And? It doesn’t impact any other arguments.

          Going even further into extremes, over 99% of matter in the universe is helium or hydrogen. By that definition of default, helium and hydrogen are the default state of matter, and carbon-based lifeforms aren’t “supposed to” exist.

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      9 months ago

      default because of centuries of religion and culture ensuring anything other than heterosexuality was punished

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      And being composed of hydrogen and helium is the default for 99.9% of the entire universe, so why are you creating exceptions for carbon?

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      9 months ago

      That’s true

      But it also has nothing to do with this. It’s as good as saying someone is evil because the sky is blue.