(October 21, 2017 at 11:14 pm)emjay Wrote:(October 21, 2017 at 7:52 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I think you might be getting too caught up in terminology there. I can see how it might be classified as a disorder from a clinical standpoint - just as other reproductive disorders are so-classified. It's obviously counter to evolutionary advantage. The key is not attaching moral or any other kind of judgement to it. It is not something to fear, to revile someone for or disrespect someone for.
^^^ That's how I see it, and it's only society's judgment, as per the italics (my added), that gives it any stigma. So from my perspective, the blame for how homosexuals are treated is not in the definition... as development disorder (if it is) or whatever... but in society's judgment of that definition.
Yeah, I probably have a mental disorder myself: Asperger's Syndrome. It has something in common with homosexuality in that it hampers reproduction. I cannot stand the sound of a baby's cry - even on television. I'll plug my ears or leave the room to avoid it. A lot of other sounds have a similar effect on me but a baby's cry is the worse. On top of this, I just couldn't be bound by having to take care of a baby's every need. The total lack of parental instinct is definitely an abnormality and I would not take offense at it being called a "mental disorder" because it is IMO. It pretty much slides under the radar though because there is considerably less stigma on heterosexual men who have zero interest in being a father than there is on a homosexual man.
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