• toomanypancakes
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      391 year ago

      That sounds like a you problem. By the way, able to and supposed to are different.

      • @Dystopia@lemm.ee
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        -471 year ago

        In nature you’re supposed to, being able to is related to health problems. But yeah, I will raise my son/daughter in heterosexuality, if he/she wants to be gay/bi/etc that’s fine. But I don’t expect little boys to like other boys for example

        • @HamsterRage@lemmy.ca
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          381 year ago

          The “supposed to be…”, is a really big problem.

          First, it’s factually wrong. Homosexuality occurs all through nature and it’s not a mistake or random abberation. Presumably there’s some advantage to having a percentage of any population not reproducing. Perhaps so that they aren’t burdened with children and are free to fill other roles in their community, herd, flock or whatever. This increases the group survival/reproduction rate, even though they aren’t reproducing themselves.

          Secondly, “supposed to…” implies that there’s something wrong with any non-heterosexual individual. It sounds like, at best, you’ll accept their homosexuality as natural but, at the same time, you understand that they’re actually defective. That attitude isn’t going to lead to good things, and not something I would like to see widespread in society.

          And finally, the fact that you would even say this points out the need for more education on this in schools, not less.

        • DreamButt
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          321 year ago

          There is no “suppose to” in nature. Nature is literally random

    • Flying SquidOP
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      41 year ago

      Lots of individual animals never reproduce. Why are humans special?

    • Poggervania
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      -11 year ago

      Genders are a social construct, yes, but some people are literally born gay. It wasn’t like they chose to be gay - they just are. To say that sexuality is a “result of society” is absolutely ridiculous. To put this in perspective: can you, a straight guy, can just choose to be gay? Can you suddenly decide that you want to suck a dick? That’s how you know it’s not a social construct - you’re literally hard-wired to be whatever the fuck sexuality you are.

      I sort of get what you’re saying with heterosexuality being the “default” because it’s quite literally how the human race needs to reproduce, but please don’t go saying that people choose to be gay, because they do not.