(July 6, 2015 at 3:36 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I'm not. Admittedly, I spent my high school years in a parochial boy's only school, and a lot of the boys flirted with me. I did not enjoy it. I estimate that of my 200-strong graduating class, about half of them made a pass at me at some point. Sadly, when I declined them, quite a few did not simply stop, with a few going so far as groping me and even one incident where a student grabbed me from behind and dry-humped me against my will. Of course, since we were both clothed when he did it (and he couldn't be bothered to pull my clothes away), I'm not sure if it technically counts as rape.
Still, I'm well aware that most gay people will at least know not to keep at it when flirting with a straight person, and likely a lot of what I had to go through was closer to prison sexuality than regular gay people, but it still brings up bad times for me.
That is not a result of their sexuality, that is a result of evolutionary bullying. Add evolutionary testosterone, hormones, and church, and a prison setting, you get social ignorance. I was bullied too, but like rape, bullying isn't about gender, it is about power and control.
I am sorry you got harassed, but again, humans don't understand in general, the difference between gender, sexuality, and issues of power and control.
Back in the early 2000s I went to a pro choice rally in DC. Afterwords a gay couple invited everyone to their apt. Gays and lesbians and bis and straights were there. But these unfortunate hosts had a really drunk friend who grabbed my ass. I screamed at the guy, the hosts were horrified, kicked him out, apologized to me, and I said why? They didn't do it. But when you think about unwanted attention, or harassment, girls/ women go through that all the time from boys/men. That is not an issue of one's sexuality.
