Gay poll for straight people: your politics and aesthetics

[katmai]

Was just being smartass, haven't voted yet, but will be #1, spent enough time in gay bars to be disgusted by two men kissing.

So in your view is this a matter of exposure or is it something else?

Well i grew up with homosexuality being accepted. My dad is oldest of 6 kids, two of his three sisters are/were Lesbians. Had other distant cousins who knew since I was young were out (helped being from/living in San Francisco I'm sure for them)

My best friend from Alaska is gay, he ended up moving to Colombia of all places as that is where his Husband is from originally.

So my point is I've been exposed to it all my life so can't say if it was something else as it is all i've ever known.

[crazy canuck]

Your poll does not separate out disgust for people probing eachothers tonsils in public regardless of sexual orientation.

Fair enough but then again I wasn't also limiting this to PDAs.

For example, I suspect most straight people are not disgusted when they see a man/woman couple kissing in a movie?

Well it is an important distinction.  I dont care one way or the other when I see men kissing on TV.  When I see PDA's it is different. 

[Martinus]

CC, assume I meant the kiss in a non-otherwise-offensive situation.

[crazy canuck]

CC, assume I meant the kiss in a non-otherwise-offensive situation.

What I mean is I dont care who is kissing who in an otherwise inoffensive manner.  But since your poll question left open the possibility of PDA, I voted 2.

[fhdz]

I voted Option 2, but I wouldn't say it's disgust at all, just a level of discomfort. I see nothing wrong with it and no reason why my biological reaction to something should have any sway over what is or isn't good public policy.

[Neil]

Voted option 4, because ewww.

[The Brain]

Why would two guys be kissing?

[viper37]

Be honest.

This is partially inspired by garbon's other thread - I think it's a measure of a truly wise man to be able to separate one's aesthetics from one's politics.

Edit: Voted "other" to see results.

#2.

There are financial impacts to this measure that should be considered, but it shouldn't be a reason to deny some group of people what the majority can do.  Besides, what I like or not should not be a valid basis for public policy.  We might as well forbid chocolate ice cream, if that's the case.

[crazy canuck]

Why would two guys be kissing?

Pretend one of the guys is an animal of some description and one is human.

[The Brain]

Why would two guys be kissing?

Pretend one of the guys is an animal of some description and one is human.

What kind of animal and what's the situation? Please be specific.

[crazy canuck]

Why would two guys be kissing?

Pretend one of the guys is an animal of some description and one is human.

What kind of animal and what's the situation? Please be specific.

I leave that to your imagination.

[Eddie Teach]

What if I support it, disgusted by two men, and enjoy two women kissing?

Men have cooties.

[garbon]

I voted Other. What's a gay person?

[CountDeMoney]

I feel disgusted with anybody kissing in public.  Public displays of affection are more annoying than tailgating, littering and the homeless combined.

[Ed Anger]

Fags: gross