RE: How would you react to a gay person who found you TOTALLY repulsive ?
September 27, 2015 at 3:41 pm
(September 27, 2015 at 3:30 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(September 27, 2015 at 3:22 pm)robvalue Wrote: Some people seem to think it justifies handing out unwarranted judgements by saying, "Just being honest!"
Bully for you. If I asked for your opinion, then that would be relevant.
I want to know if there's something I'm unaware of about myself of some importance (such as I'm about to fall down a hole) but I don't need random opinions from people about irrelevant things, as others have said. I have had people shout out random insults quite a lot actually.
I was presuming, in the context of the conversation, that the gay guy in question had a reason for making such a statement in conversation, rather than being unsolicited rudeness, in which case he'd just be an asshole whom I could safely ignore.
But what could that context be? Especially if the person says what the title of this thread says, that they find you "TOTALLY repulsive?" In what context is that not going to be rude?
Are you imagining a guy asking the gay man if he finds him attractive, and then the gay man tells him, "no, I don't particularly," and then pressing the matter further, with "exactly how unattractive do you find me?" Other than something like that, how could it not be rude?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
