Go Straight or Stay Gay: If you died today and you were told that you get a new life again but this time you had a choice...
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| Hypothetically, you die today. You are informed that the universe has become quite soul-conscientious lately so you're being recycled back to life another time. You're given a choice whether to be gay or straight this time around.
Given your current orientation, which do you choose? |
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| 24 | I am currently straight and that's how I would be my next life. | | 1 | I am currently straight but I think I'd give this gay thing a try next time. | | 1 | I am currently gay and straight would be my choice for my return. | | 4 | I am currently gay. In my new life I'd be chanting, "I'm here again, I'm queer again." | | 2 | I'm bi and I would choose straight. | | 1 | I'm bi and I would choose gay. | | 0 | I have no sexual orientation - I'd love to be decidedly straight next time. | | 1 | I have no sexual orientation but...let's go gay next, what the heck? | | 3 | I have no idea what I would choose. | | 0 | I would refuse to be recycled and demand to be judged for Heaven or Hell immediately. | | 4 | If this gay creator could only get my answers straight...[OTHER]: |
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| User | Comment |
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Crayons   | | posted 24-Sep-2007 10:10am |
What if I'm a guy next time around? Do I get to choose that too?
Otherwise, I think I'll stay the same. | bill   | | posted 24-Sep-2007 10:53am |
It seems odd to make this a choice. It never felt like a choice to me. If it was and I wanted to change, I would do it right now, why wait? | Galomorro   | | posted 24-Sep-2007 11:17am |
Currently gay, wish to stay that way. | | JessicaWoman99 | | posted 24-Sep-2007 11:49am |
I am straight woman and what I want to be | | Biggles | | posted 24-Sep-2007 12:48pm |
Assuming that the current levels of homophobia and discrimination would continue throughout my second lifetime, I would choose to be straight - why make life more difficult than it needs to be? I'd find it strange that gay or straight were the only options though - as if you're suddenly going to stamp out bisexuality entirely, so that everyone fits into neat little boxes... | | Richard47 | | (reply to bill) posted 24-Sep-2007 12:54pm |
> It seems odd to make this a choice. It never felt like a choice to
> me. If it was and I wanted to change, I would do it right now, why
> wait?
Kinda ditto. ""
I 'could' see, if you are bisexual now and had to come back straight or gay, what would you choose? (But even that is a stretch...) I would like to come back taller, though.
| bill   | | (reply to Richard47) posted 24-Sep-2007 1:00pm |
I'd like to come back thinner, but still straight. | | Richard47 | | (reply to bill) posted 24-Sep-2007 1:09pm |
There you go! A realistic reincarnation! | | CarlHalling | | posted 24-Sep-2007 1:27pm |
I'm straight; I've been fine with it...I'll stay that way. | | RGirl | | posted 24-Sep-2007 4:24pm |
Gay, stay gay. | dab   | | posted 24-Sep-2007 5:24pm |
Given a choice I'd not want to limit my choices, therefore bisexual please. | EyesOfCharisma  | | posted 24-Sep-2007 5:33pm |
I will be gay next time, or maybe still in this life time | | mrmarm | | posted 24-Sep-2007 5:56pm |
Ah, I don't know if this can be one of the options, but I'd came back Bisexual. | | mrmarm | | posted 24-Sep-2007 5:59pm |
Interesting good questions, one of you're most appealing I personally think. | | ultamate | | posted 24-Sep-2007 7:46pm |
I think I'd be bi and go for which ever one I like best. I think I'd come back as a white man for a while though just so I could see what it feels like to think I'm above everyone else in the world. Guess I shouldn't say that.....but I did. | | Enigma | | posted 24-Sep-2007 8:27pm |
I think the creator made this survey just so he/she could use the phrase "I'm here again, I'm queer again" which has potential to be a great chant. | | MacGregor | | posted 25-Sep-2007 10:06pm |
Straight now, straight next time. | Iseult  | | posted 26-Sep-2007 5:23pm |
I'm straight and would like to stay that way, but if I were a guy in my next life, I would consider possibility of being gay. | | docgbrown | | posted 26-Sep-2007 10:36pm |
If I came back as a dude then "I am currently straight and that's how I would be my next life." | FauxLo  | | posted 15-Oct-2007 2:29pm |
FoxTurtle does not like change, so... | cloudhugger    | | posted 1-Nov-2007 10:07pm |
I am bi, and I would again choose to be bi. The creator is so gay, he forgot that option. | cloudhugger    | | (reply to Biggles) posted 1-Nov-2007 10:11pm |
That's what I'm saying! Being bi is the most difficult, gay nor straight will acknowledge your exhistance. Gays don't believe in bi's any more than straight people do. That has been very difficult for me, and when I am with a man, I'm straight, when I am with a woman, I'm gay...what the hell!! | | OfTheSoul |
Sorry 'bout that, Cloudhugger. One of the first replies mentioned how I slighted the bi choice in this hypothetical. And you're right. People who stay in the middle of the road tend to get run over...even though they're the ones who are "looking both ways". (Hope you got all those puns, ha.) | cloudhugger    | | (reply to OfTheSoul) posted 3-Nov-2007 3:39pm |
Love puns.... I was thinking about it, why the gay community shuns bi's and what I came up with is what was mentioned previously. I thinks it is true we need to feel safe in our sexuality choices and if we are 'in a box' or identifiable than we can claim our justice. So to be not completely gay, may be a threat to the gay community, as they want to be recognized as viable human beings in their determined choice. And the straight community...well, they need to feel safe too, or they wouldn't be so scared of the gay community. It has been a difficult path, and bi's are not really on the chart as being believable. Gays and straights write bi's off as being confused, or wanna-be's. you don't see bisexual uniting and having parades or writing petitions for fairness. Why? Perhaps it is the lack of recognition, or being taken seriously is a very distant thought. At the back of the line. | | OfTheSoul |
There's only one problem I have with your expressed views (however you mentioned it twice): the word "choice". This survey purports to reveal everyone's honest view: Is sexuality a choice?
Given your response, maybe the most apparent difference between gay and bi is that bi's believe sexuality is a choice? I know I could choose to live a straight life - I even tried desperately to carry out such a life for seventeen years (12 - 29). Got laid, got married - the whole bit. And, quite frankly, does the fact that I did live out the straight way of life for so long qualify me as a "bi"? I don't know.
But, since 12 years old (actually, I was three when I knew I was different from other boys), all that was an act I had to deliberately carry out to appear straight - and I felt it was a necessity of survival.
I remember Thanksgiving Day at 12 years old, spending most of the day hidden, crying my eyeballs out because I discovered I was "a homosexual". Then, "hating God" for it; then, growing determined to change it; then (17 years later) realizing that I just wasn't going to achieve that goal in life.
How could anyone choose to be attracted to a certain gender? If that is your case...first, I believe it if you do; second, I am envious that you have a "choice" in the matter at all. If I ever had the choice, I would have been the first in line to "be cured". Give me the shot, pop me the pill, top it off with shock treatment. It all would have saved me so much hatred and disgust for myself, and one hell of a lot of lonely, undisclosed heartache.
I'd love to know what sort of person I would be if I were straight. (Although the few gay friends I have called me "the straightest gay" they know - ha!) Of course now, having been in a once-in-a-lifetime relationship with the same incredible man for so long, I "choose" to no longer "act". Screw it - my partner was worth the whole fight...with myself and the world. | cloudhugger    | | (reply to OfTheSoul) posted 11-Nov-2007 7:09pm |
I do try to not be redundant.
This sort of reveals my point. As a straight gay (  ) you do not see a bisexual as not having chosen this lifestyle. I did not 'choose' to be like this. If I understood you correctly. When I was about 7 years old, I wanted to be a little boy so much, but I knew that was not 'normal' and I knew not to tell anyone. I played with trucks and I played with dolls. I wore dresses because that's what my mom made me wear, but I remember not liking them. I played sports with the boys, and I would color with the girls. I have always been middle of the road.
When I played with the boys, I felt like one of them, when I played with the girls, I felt like one of them. When I was alone, I cried.
As I got older, I thought seriously about being male, because for some reason, I thought life would be easier. Especially going through puberty, it was very difficult because I was forced to be the girl I was born into. After puberty, I was able to face being a female, and I was really enjoying it. I didn't date till I was a freshman in high school, and it was the boy I had known all through grade school, we were already buddies, and that is how I felt the dates to be. I didn't know how to act. I didn't realize there was a choice, that is, here is where the word 'choice' comes into play. I didn't know about gay people, same sex relationships, until I started to have dreams about it, about when I was 17. I didn't know why the other girls on my basketball team made fun of me, I didn't know my coaches were gay. I figured it all out, on my own, but I didn't really know anyone like me.
I dated boys, some were very short term and a few were 2 years or more. Going to college was a whole new world. I played on sports and oh my god, women on women in the locker room. I was very interested and soon had a girlfriend. Some were short term and some were longer.
As I got older, I was comfortable being a woman and I am glad I did make any hasty decisions, I realized that being a male has it's own difficult challenges. I wear mostly men's clothing because it is more practicle and more comfortable, I like being called "miss".
That is my story. When it comes to relationships, I have switched back and forth since I was 18. I have been with a guy for 6 years, and I have been with my current Mary for about that now. Other relationships have been short term, or a bit longer. I think that is pretty normal. Maybe? I do not fit into a gay community, I cannot share my issues or thoughts with those who do not understand. I have no support community. I have been told more than on a few occasions that being bi is being wishy washy, not wanting to be on one side or the other... like I cannot make the full commitment to being gay, and the straight community...  they think I am just over sexed. A sex fanatic that cannot get enough sex, so I go for who ever when ever.
Maybe I do suffer from commitment issues? Maybe I am a sex fanatic, deep down inside, the beast waiting to rip out of my insides.......(I'm too much of a prude to be a sex fanatic)....I don't know...but when I am with one sex or the other, I feel like I am missing out on something. Something is missing. Some need is not getting met. We pick our partners to fill in those gaps, or make us feel whole. I never really feel completly whole. I don't know any other bi 's that can really explain this, it all sounds pretty flaky, but it is as real as being born gay, being born straight, being born and than not finding out you are gay until you are over the age of 50. (And that is another group that is not taken seriously). I don't sit down and think about if I am going to be dating a guy or a girl next, I just meet someone.
So if I was to be able to 'choose', I am sticking with my answer, I prefer to be bi. Be it as it may, I hope I didn't get too off the mark replying to your reply.
That is so sad, to see little gay boys cry, really it is so sad. Some day, life won't be so hard. jeez, I got tears welling up in my eyes now  . We know a young lad now who is getting a hard time a school right now, he hasn't really come out to himself or anyone right now, maybe he isn't, but it breaks my heart to see a young life being given such a hard time becaue they don't fit the mold. People suck so much sometimes. | cloudhugger    | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 11-Nov-2007 7:10pm |
> FoxTurtle does not like change, so...
So...? Straight or gay?
| FauxLo  |
FoxTurtle is what he is, so... | cloudhugger    | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 13-Nov-2007 8:10pm |
So... what side of the skirt? | FauxLo  |
FoxTurtle does not understand, so... | cloudhugger    | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 13-Nov-2007 8:31pm |
> FoxTurtle does not understand, so...
never mind | | thecomic22 | | posted 18-Dec-2007 5:07pm |
I'm sexually attracted to both genders. Do I gotta choose just one? |
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