Letters to the Editor
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Perversion therapy
Here's a test for the psycho therapists among. Let's test your theories. Take a well-adjusted, happily partnered straight man and convert him to exclusive homosexuality for a lifetime. Then get back to me.
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yeah right!
I think Cohen is just trying to cop a feel.
Notice too that the over shoulder shot of the 'client' with the email bit says that he likes "Christian music.."
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HILARIOUS
My favorite is the "reformed" gay guy shot in silhouette--so we won't see his identity--talking about how happy he feels being straight now. WITH HIS DELICATE CHINA ARRANGED IN THE BACKGROUND.
Fabulous.
the1bostongirl
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Jesus christ
The proud heterosexuals who claim to have "converted" from homosexuality always look like the most flaming gay people I've ever seen... It's funny, but it's also sad that this poor man is on television, exposing himself to the ridicule of every gay person who knows the truth.
Sexual attraction simply isn't something you can control. Forget "choosing" a gender -- we can't even choose our attractions within a given gender. Anyone who has ever suffered from an inconvenient crush knows that our desires are beyond our conscious control.
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tryin'
for the second straight post, you've used the phrase "try and (infinitive)." that's grammatically incorrect. it's "try to (infinitive)."
i hate to be that guy, but the neurotic grammarian in me won't shut up. sorry to try your patience--ho!
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Tropical Fruit Enemas work better...
That's nothing. Years ago I was dragged to a church's book club by my then-girlfriend. For the first hour, they reviewed a book by E. Lynn Harris--a very popular black gay writer that writes of lots of gay characters in his drama. I thought, I don't want to be here, but it's pretty progressive of these guys to take on this book.
The next hour? A presentation by a guy that claimed, among other things, to have a cure for homosexuality.
Apparently, he took groups of gay men to some island in the Carolinas or the Bahamas for a week and gave them intense therapy that included a diet of fresh fruits and,...wait for it...holistic enemas. Apparently the enemas had the secret seven herbs and spics of straightness mixed in. At first, I honestly thought it was a joke.
I keep imagining that all over America there are gay guys going, "I really want to take a vacation to somewhere tropical, but I'm broke. I wonder if I could come up with a way for mom and dad to pay for it...?"
I believe in the gay-straight continuum, though I'd never say so publicly, er, I mean, personally.
I figure it's "nature" with a big dollop of "nurture" thrown in. I agree with the other poster: if you want to know whether gays can become straight, you gotta ask yourself--what would it take to make me become gay? Not "oppurtnistically gay", but Gay gay?
Gonna take more than a damn tennis racquet, I'll tell ya that.
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Four simple words...
... It just doesn't work.
After going through "reparative therapy" in the mid-1980's I can report that it is an immoral and abusive process that does nothing for the client but reinforce any guilt that haunts them. Thank God that nice Paula Zahn showed a truly messed up practitioner of this twisted cult.
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Overbearing Mothers
have done it again. Tennis, anyone?
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For those potential dates....
That won't-say-he's-ex-gay client is now chatting online with women, looking for dates. Questions for those women:
"What's your comfort level with being one of those dates? Does having seen or read 'Brokeback Mountain' affect your opinion on this in any way?"
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Is it really that simple?
Okay, I'm not gay, so I really don't know jack in this area. But it seems to me that therapy with the label of "you're wrong", and especially "you're a sinner" is the loony and cruel idea.
If someone really thinks they don't want to be gay, they should be able to try to change that. It may work in a few instances, or it may not work most of the time, but they should be able to try it.
Human behavior is so varied that it would not surprise me totally to find that there were a few people who were gay out of aversion, not out of true nature. Everyone has the right to be what they are, and to find out what that is.
Do you posters see this as a "slippery slope" where if it is defined as a disorder, as it was before, we are right back where we started? I am curious, and also ignorant. Enlighten me, if you will.
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HALLELUJAH! THEY'RE CURED!
OK, Great! Thank God that problem is solved. Can you imagine how horrifying it would be for any gay man to endure sex with either "Bob" or the therapist? Quelle horreur!
But now that that problem is solved, how do we address the bigger issue - the elephant in the room - so to speak?
Is there any therapy available that would make Paula Zahn less stupid? I mean, does she just choose to be this compulsively inane, or is it a lifestyle choice?
But regardless of whether or not she was born that way or suffered some traumatic incident as a child, surely God can help!
I mean, one little guilt-wracked "Bob" furtively giving the occasional blow job to "straight" truckers in rest stops is bad enough, but the thought of Paula spewing her mindless vacuity out across the airwaves every single day is physically nauseating!
Get help, Paula! We care about your shriveled up, blond little spokesmodel brain. Just choose change!
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Musings
So often I have heard people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson say to someone who has given up Christianity, as never having been a real Christian to begin with.
Thus my theory is this, however flawed it may be. Someone who professes to not being gay anymore, either never was in the first place, or is so miserable for some reason with reasons having nothing to do with being gay or lesbian, that they grab at any solution that someone offers them. Heck someone could offer them a new diet, new exercise program, spiritual path and they would grab it. Rather than address the non-homosexual issue that is the real problem.
Not to get off topic, since I am not a scientist, but I have always assumed someone could be born with some type of a 'gay' gene, simply because there are people who are born intersexed/hermaphroditism, etc. Doesn't make them abnormal, just shows how unique and wonderful nature can be. So let's celebrate each others uniqueness and stop building walls and start erecting bridges.
~Beth