Adam,
It's a shame that such people are singled out at all by such silly webpages and such discussions. Why select a group of people and refer to them as a particular segment of society at all? Such a waste of time and effort to differentiate between people based on these silly things. So what if there is a list of fifty gay dead people? I'm sure somewhere is a list of fifty heterosexual people. Does it really matter? Why not simply refer to all law-abiding members of a society as the same "type" or whatever (since this thread is about types)?
No I disagree. One of the great things about life is that everyone is different and discovering and exploring those differences is the spice of life. What I would object to is how so many people isolate a particular group and arbitrarily judge them according to their own personal lifestyle choices.
But we are all part of different groups, we are both male for example. Being male we can share experiences that females can never fully appreciate, and visa versa. If you ignore the differences then you stand a good chance of insulting others with inappropriate comments. For example if you are hetero and have a gay friend and didn’t know they were gay and then go on about your hetero experiences then you stand a good chance of upsetting them by your ignorance.
One of the key approaches to making friends is to take a real interest in other people. You’ll find that the most boring people around are those that continually start a sentence with the word “I”. But my real point here is that if you don’t understand something about the person you are talking to then your ability to effectively communicate is severely limited.
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Bebelina,
When chosing a mate it´s the personality that should count, not the gender.
Nice ideal but gender usually plays a very strong role in shaping personality. You really cannot separate them. For example even you proclaim yourself as
Female Messiah. You are stressing your gender because you want to emphasize your differences to others.
Summary.
So rather than try to see and make everyone conform to the same uniform sameness, I would much rather we recognize and appreciate the enormous differences between all of us.
This is what makes life so rich.
I’m part of the management structure of a large corporation. We have a specific policy about, what we call, diversity, i.e. recognition and understanding the differences between people. We have learnt that people are happier and are more effective in their work if their particular lifestyles are understood and hopefully appreciated by others. From my perspective I don’t want to mix people of opposing lifestyles in the same team, it just wouldn’t be effective and the people would be miserable.
Cris