Pronouncements about sexual predilections

[Silver]

If someone were to introduce themselves to me at a party and mentioned they were gay, I’d probably say something like, ‘That’s great, but I’m just here for the onion dip.’

Boru

The onion dip is gay, too.

[LostLocke]

If it is a huge part of your identity - that is fine.

But - not everyone wants, needs or cares to know about your sexuality.

If someone isn' t making an issue about your sexuality it is inappropriate for you to force knowledge of your sexuality upon them.

The thing is that I could make the same comments about other aspects of a person. They might mention what city they were born in, or what school they attended, or what their profession is, or whether they served in the military, etc.

If I don't ask or make an issue of it, don't tell me, I don't need to know, right?
But people volunteer those things all the time, they consider it part of being "them".

[Fireball]

I have an example of what OLB is talking about. I'm a member of a wood working forum. One of the members came out as gay, out of the blue. People were just of a mind, "Meh, so what? Show me your project!" In some places it makes a difference, but if you're working wood, who the hell cares about any number of perceived differences? Here, I can't see where it might make a difference. Honestly, atheists in general don't care a pinch of feces about someone's sexual preference.

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If someone were to introduce themselves to me at a party and mentioned they were gay, I’d probably say something like, ‘That’s great, but I’m just here for the onion dip.’

Boru

The onion dip is gay, too.

It's all the extra "cream", amirite!? 

[Silver]

I'm a member of a wood working forum.

Gay men are experts at working woodies.

[Fireball]

I'm a member of a wood working forum.

Gay men are experts at working woodies.

Not just gay men. That particular website has a header that says, "We love to work the wood!" 

Then again, I was stroking a large plank of white oak out in the garage today, and got a splinter   

[brewer]

Gay men are experts at working woodies.

Not just gay men. That particular website has a header that says, "We love to work the wood!" 

Then again, I was stroking a large plank of white oak out in the garage today, and got a splinter   

Sure....... splinter. You're not fooling anyone. We know a woody euphemism when we see it.