So gay!!!

[Hopper]

I really love this one, too, eh, Marcus?:

"Citing “the right to marry” as one of the “important challenges” in a place where “it’s a great time to be gay”, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health helped produce [a book which] included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous sex."

That's what "Public Health" is alla bout, for gays anyway, aint it?

 

[chemdude1232]

With regard to schools being proactive toward showing that homosexuality is "normal," I think doing just that is fine. Treat homosexuality the same way heterosexuality is treated...it's not explicitly discussed time after time (we certainly never had a heterosexuality seminar in our gym) but is accepted as a generality. If the school does it well enough (big "if," I know) then its reinforcement in such a brute-force manner won't be necessary.

 

[Scat]

I really love this one, too, eh, Marcus?:

"Citing “the right to marry” as one of the “important challenges” in a place where “it’s a great time to be gay”, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health helped produce [a book which] included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous sex."

That's what "Public Health" is alla bout, for gays anyway, aint it?

No doubt. When are they publishing the "Guide for Anonymous Straight Sex while Visiting Boston"?

 

[Hopper]

With regard to schools being proactive toward showing that homosexuality is "normal," I think doing just that is fine.

Well, I'm glad ya put "normal" in scare-quotes, at least, eh, Chem? Statistically speakin, it aint normal, it's abnormal and deviant (from the "norm"). Whether it's RIGHT, sumthin to be encouraged, endorsed, and openly advocated, is another question, of course. Just because it's abnormal and deviant don't mean it's wrong, but it DOES mean it's not "normal."

 

[Scat]

Well, I'm glad ya put "normal" in scare-quotes, at least, eh, Chem? Statistically speakin, it aint normal, it's abnormal and deviant (from the average). Whether it's RIGHT, sumthin to be encouraged, endorsed, and openly advocated, is another question (from the question of whether it is deviant or not), of course. Just because it's abnormal and deviant don't mean it's wrong, but it DOES mean it's not "normal."

I had a discussion with someone that admitted that gay sex was not the norm but refused to use the word abnormal because it carried such a negative connotation.

 

[chemdude1232]

Scare-quotes? Really? If that's how you want to interpret my usage of quotation marks, go for it. By "normal," I meant "it happens in nature," and I apologize if you didn't get that (though I'm sure you did...you're smarter than that, Hoppy).

 

[Hopper]

Scare-quotes? Really? If that's how you want to interpret my usage of quotation marks, go for it. By "normal," I meant "it happens in nature," and I apologize if you didn't get that (though I'm sure you did...you're smarter than that, Hoppy).

Well, Chem, I really wouldn't have guessed that's what ya meant by "normal," I spoze. Murder, genocide, infanticide, and all kinda abnormal and despicable things "happen in nature." If that's the test of what's "normal," then everything that happens is "normal."

 

[Scat]

Well, Chem, I really wouldn't have guessed that's what ya meant by "normal," I spoze. Murder, genocide, infanticide, and all kinda abnormal and despicable things "happen in nature." If that's the test of what's "normal," then everything that happens is "normal."

You forgot throwing poop when upset.

 

[Hopper]

I had a discussion with someone that admitted that gay sex was not the norm but refused to use the word abnormal...

Right, Marcus, so in true Orwellian "doublespeak" fashion, the abnormal is presented as normal.

 

[chemdude1232]

Well, Chem, I really wouldn't have guessed that's what ya meant by "normal," I spoze. Murder, genocide, infanticide, and all kinda abnormal and despicable things "happen in nature." If that's the test of what's "normal," then everything that happens is "normal."

You are free to think what is normal and what is not. So are the other 6 billion people alive.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

Some of the changes in school curiculum since gay marriage was ruled legal in MA.

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html

Damn, I know. I mean, I hated it when it was decreed in schools that interracial relationships were being taught as normal for our kids. Damn this country!

 

[Hopper]

You are free to think what is normal and what is not. So are the other 6 billion people alive.

Sure, goes without no kinda sayin, eh, Chem? Does "freedom to think" have anything to do with the definition and meaning of "normal," or any other word with established meanin, though? I don't see "happens in nature" as a recognized definition of "normal" by this here dictionary, anyway:

nor·mal   /ˈnɔrməl/ Show Spelled[nawr-muhl] Show IPA
–adjective
1. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
2. serving to establish a standard.
3. Psychology .
a. approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment.
b. free from any mental disorder; sane.
4. Biology, Medicine/Medical .
a. free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation.
b. of natural occurrence.
5. Mathematics .
a. being at right angles, as a line; perpendicular.
b. of the nature of or pertaining to a mathematical normal.
c. (of an orthogonal system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the square of the absolute value of any function is 1.
d. (of a topological space) having the property that corresponding to every pair of disjoint closed sets are two disjoint open sets, each containing one of the closed sets.
e. (of a subgroup) having the property that the same set of elements results when all the elements of the subgroup are operated on consistently on the left and consistently on the right by any element of the group; invariant.
6. Chemistry .
a. (of a solution) containing one equivalent weight of the constituent in question in one liter of solution.
b. pertaining to an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight unbranched carbon chain, each carbon atom of which is joined to no more than two other carbon atoms.
c. of or pertaining to a neutral salt in which any replaceable hydroxyl groups or hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other groups or atoms, as sodium sulfate, Na 2 SO 4 .
–noun
7. the average or mean: Production may fall below normal.
8. the standard or type.
9. Mathematics .
a. a perpendicular line or plane, esp. one perpendicular to a tangent line of a curve, or a tangent plane of a surface, at the point of contact.
b. the portion of this perpendicular line included between its point of contact with the curve and the x- axis.

https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/normal


As far as "normal behavior" goes, I don't see it here, neither:

"In behavior, normal refers to a lack of significant deviation from the average."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normality_(behavior)

It's true that the word "natural" is thrown in, once, as a sub-component of one of these explanations of what "normal" means, but given the context of all other explanations given, I can only see that as an implied contrast with "supernatural."