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shawnq
This woman is bizarre. From her piece in the WSJ OpinionJournal.
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I was at a wedding, standing just off the dance floor, when a pleasant young man in his 20s approached, introduced himself and asked where I'd had my hair done. I shook his offered hand and began to answer, but before I could he said, \"I'm gay, by the way.\" I nodded as if this were my business, but thought: I wonder why a total stranger thinks I want to know what he wishes to do with his genitals? What an odd way to say hello.
What an odd thing to think when someone happens to mention they're gay. I doubt she thinks similarly when she learns someone is straight, but I guess you never know with these Republican women. Before last week I would have been surprised to hear a first lady joke about horse masturbation.
theodoresdaddy
okay, a young guy comes up to a middle aged (I'm being generous here)woman and asks where she had her hair done--I don't think he even has to say that he's gay

she'd be thinking it anyway
Joe in Philly
Maybe he said that so she wouldn't think he was hitting on her? You know, just being polite? Of course, Ms. GodOP wouldn't know about such things.
jqueer
It's ineteresting that was her reaction at a wedding. She was there to celebrate what the happy couple planned to do with their genitals, if they hadn't already.

I'm reminded of a line I heard at a John Corvino's "What's Morally Wrong with Homosexuality" lecture many years ago. He was recounting a conversation with his mother about her concerns that he was too "out."

"Why do you have to talk about who you have sex with all the time?" she had asked him. "Your father and I don't talk about sex." To which he noted that the sentence itself explicitly said that his mother and father had sex at least twice (he has a sister).

People just don't realize how much sexual subtext is in their day to day conversation until they're faced with pronouns they don't understand in context, then, all of the sudden, the conversation is about sex.
kujhawker
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jqueer:

People just don't realize how much sexual subtext is in their day to day conversation until they're faced with pronouns they don't understand in context, then, all of the sudden, the conversation is about sex.
I am reminded of a co-worker who came late to a meeting after lunch. "I'm sorry I'm late I was just having sex with my husband and I lost track of time." The other co-workers gasped. "You know how it is, we have been so busy this was the only time we could get it in."

Most everyone was shocked. I didn't understand the big deal, because I bet nearly everyone has had that circumstance at least one time or another.

Even with straight sex we are just to puritanical. We all know it is happening we just don't talk about it. I don't understand the big deal. Our sexuality is a major part of our lives. Sex drives all animals, it is just we have been able to expand it it beyond just reproduction. It is still and integral part of our lives.

I understand that sexuality isn't the only things in our lives, but I always look at someone quizically when they say it isn't part of who there are. My sexuality doesn't define me, but is an integral part of me. Saying sex isn't integral part of your life is like saying your arm isn't an integral part of your body.
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