Ask a gay man anything..

i'm not about to pretend to know how it feels to be in your shoes. i do know that many people have that intense, rooted guilt over many things. is it REALLY over "just" being gay, or could it be something else closely related, such as hypothetically feeling like you've disappointed your family, for example? or feeling guilty about yourself over something, not necessarily about being gay but about not being something else? oftentimes there are things that are so entwined with something more obvious that it's easy to not see the underlying and identify the culprit as the loudmouth.
i'm not trying to TELL you what you are or aren't, or what you feel or don't feel. i'm just using examples to try to describe my thoughts. and probably failing. i'm babbling. :eek:
there's a difference to me between being guilty of a specific and not being at peace with what is true about yourself yet misunderstood by most others. the latter does not make it wrong or untrue...it means that you haven't found inner peace with something and haven't found a way, or people, who can honestly relate to it and help settle yourself and find peace. :heart: the latter is much harder to see, process, validate, accept, and put to peace.



not all the time. some people are just built to feel guilty...because they constantly measure themselves against some preset measuring stick (such as a religion's, or a family's, or society's) when that measuring stick is just not accurate for themselves. they constantly fail against this stick that isn't even right for them, and they constantly feel guilty because they aren't better, or aren't quite as mainstream (which means easily identifiable), or are lacking...even though they can't figure out what's "wrong," they don't feel "right."



guilt can be either, just like any emotion to any one or another. i do think you can choose happiness oftentimes, but i don't feel like you can choose the rawness of JOY...the instinctive, unexpected, unprovoked feeling of happiness and peace as one. but then again, that's just my perspective, which is based on my personal experiences...

I find women are sympathetic to homosexuals because in early periods, they were under the same abuse and treatment, being treated lesser than others.

Fortunately they had large numbers and won better conditions. Our struggle is the same, but we have smaller numbers to push with.

My guilt stems partly with disappointing friends and family, but also the fact naturally I shouldn't be this way. I cannot procreate the species naturally (I will never make a bond with a woman strong enough to have babies with her, nor will I care for the baby as I should) nor can I even offer advice because of my fundimental biases.

I think you have hit it, though, that I am not comfortable with myself. I did not measure up to what my parents bore me and trained me for. Society does not deem me equal to everyone else, making me feel at fault for something I have done.

Oh well, it is about time I grow up and except that I won't change, mainly because I am too lazy now.

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The self loathing is strong in this one.

Describe your feelings if since age 7 you have been asked by your parents if you had a boyfriend at school, or talked to your classmates about playing kiss and tell with the other boys and asking you way you don't. Imagine commercials shown on the most watched events in history using "straight panic" jokes, insulting heterosexuality to give a laugh. Imagine if the only way to procreate the species was through homosexual intercourse. Imagine that laws were constructed or destructed soley based on heterosexuality. Imagine you could never get custody of your child because you were proven to be an "unstable" heterosexual that would be bad for the child.

Wouldn't you feel a bit sad?
 
Describe your feelings if since age 7 you have been asked by your parents if you had a boyfriend at school, or talked to your classmates about playing kiss and tell with the other boys and asking you way you don't. Imagine commercials shown on the most watched events in history using "straight panic" jokes, insulting heterosexuality to give a laugh. Imagine if the only way to procreate the species was through homosexual intercourse. Imagine that laws were constructed or destructed soley based on heterosexuality. Imagine you could never get custody of your child because you were proven to be an "unstable" heterosexual that would be bad for the child.

Wouldn't you feel a bit sad?

I'd feel pretty damn gay, I'll tell you that.
 
I'd feel pretty damn gay, I'll tell you that.

So you would be willing to deny yourself fundimental feelings inherent to your humanity, causing stress and depression every minute of your existence? I am sure your kid(s) would suffer because of that because you couldn't parent under those added conditions.