Comments on: OPINION: Born this way?

By: Susanna Roxman

Susanna Roxman — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:22:28 +0000

I don’t know . . . have been thinking, sometimes, along these lines myself. Perhaps there is something “fluid” about everybody’s sexuality. When I, at 10, discovered mine, it wasn’t about other people at all. It just was. I was, I think now, asexual as an adolescent, in the sense that I never found anybody attractive. This caused great problems . . . as I wasn’t drawn to boys, some people jumped to the conclusion I must be drawn to girsl, and this was seen as bad. But, in truth, I didn’t find anybody attractive. I was 25 before I felt drawn to anybody at all. It so happened (?) that this person was a pretty, well educated American boy. Since then I have been straight. But I sometimes enjoy slash. Maybe some old distinctions should be scrapped? I don’t know really.

By: Ashton

Ashton — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:56:37 +0000

My goodness aren’t we very extremist today. You really need to take a breath, step down from the soapbox and understand that there are so many people who don’t fit into the homo/bi/hetero three boxes.

I feel it is more appropriate to interpret his comments as “I don’t know, I could be bi…just cause I haven’t met a guy I’m attracted to, it doesn’t mean I couldn’t be attracted to men”

Furthermore, this guy isn’t the one we should be railing against, he is actually on our side. Have we been fighting for so long that we don’t know who the bad guys are anymore?

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:18:32 +0000

I don’t think he was saying sexuality is a choice at all, quite the opposite. I think he was saying that it’s fluid and ever changing. Right now there are no men that he is attracted to but he is not opposed to the idea that in the future there might be a man that walks into his life that he finds attractive. He is keeping an open mind and saying that the heart wants what the heart wants and that no one can really tell their brain what that is. I think his opinions were very much geared towards the “born this way” way of thinking. I personally commend him for what he said. He is a cis gendered white male, and he is showing his support for LGBT acceptance and rights. I think it was beautiful.

By: Ellian

Ellian — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:32:18 +0000

I don’t think he said that sexuality is a choice, he merely said that people were attracted to the person, not just their genitals. Which is true.
It’s not because I’m not attracted to women that I might not, someday, fall in love with A woman. I believe there is a huge difference between sexual attraction and romantic attraction. They often go together but sometimes they don’t.

By: Jack London

Jack London — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:37:58 +0000

‘Born this way’, like ‘10% of people are Queer’ is a convenient (and clever) lie we’ve been spreading since the 70’s to combat bigotry. Unfortunately we must continue these lies because most Australians aren’t ready to hear the message ‘it’s ok to be different, weather you’ve chosen it or not’.