(July 7, 2015 at 8:08 am)Brian37 Wrote:(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.
At this point, I'm well aware of that. In the years since I graduated high school, I've actually met several gay people, and they at least had the sort of restraint that kept them from trying to keep at it when flirting with someone who wasn't interested.
Really, I know that painting gay people with the same brush as the guys in my high school is like claiming all straight people are like Jimmy Savile.
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