Who knew that "sexual preference" was offensive, insulting or derogatory?

[Chris]

Tucker had a guest on that pointed out that the gay magazine The Advocate used the term just a few weeks ago.

And nothing Orwellian here...

Dictionaries Caught Rewriting Definitions in Real-Time to Support Democrat Attack on Amy Barrett


https://www.revolver.news/2020/10/am...rriam-webster/

I too saw reports of dictionaries changing definitions after the Hawaiian spoke.

[Sunsettommy]

I confess that I did not know that using the term "sexual preference" was offensive, insulting or derogatory. I have gay family and friends and I would never knowingly use a pejorative term. I had never thought of it but I have used that term synonymously with "sexual orientation". I am curious whether others, like me, did not know this.

Note: this is in the On the Serious Side portion of the forum and it is a "tpf" thread. This is a serious question / poll.

It isn't offensive, insulting or derogatory by itself. How can it be insulting to say, MY sexual preference is have sex with a women, how else would I marry one and have two girls?


This is just another snowflake leftist whine that is calculated to weaken America with bogus narratives to create internal dissention over phrases, look at the nonsense in the media over this. There is nothing offensive about the phrase Sexual Preference itself. it is how the phrase is used in conversation that might injure someone.

They think there are more than two sexes in America, which is totally irrational, unless they accept any of the following rapid human evolution of Asexual reproduction in humans, or Fission reproduction, or Budding, Fragmentation.....


There are only these real life possibilities that exist for humans:

Same sex relationship

Male and female relationship

Bisexual relationship

Abstinence


All other snowflake crap is a sign of mental illness.

[Adelaide]

Can you explain the context?

If I asked a bisexual friend, it wouldn't be a big deal. If I asked a peer I don't know well it might become an issue in part because there is an assumption of preference and sexuality.

But I consider it more common courtesy than trying to be politically correct. I want to treat others how they wish to be treated (dignity, respect), and I hope they'll do the same.

[Chris]

Can you explain the context?

If I asked a bisexual friend, it wouldn't be a big deal. If I asked a peer I don't know well it might become an issue in part because there is an assumption of preference and sexuality.

But I consider it more common courtesy than trying to be politically correct. I want to treat others how they wish to be treated (dignity, respect), and I hope they'll do the same.

Say Mary is gay and believes it's genetic. I believe it's a preference, at most a genetic disposition but still chosen in behavior. How is my saying "sexual preference" offensive?

If not enough context, provide enough to where saying it would be offensive.

[DGUtley]

Context? - ask Mazie Hirono.

[slackercruster]

Nothing wrong with sexual preference. Fluid and bi sex identities use preference. All 57 varieties of them do...unless you speak dem.

[Peter1469]

Is what is your preference today fine?

[Chris]

Context? - ask Mazie Hirono.

“Even though you didn’t give a direct answer, I think your response did speak volumes,” Hirono said. “Not once but twice you used the term ‘sexual preference’ to describe those in the LGBTQ community.

“And let me make clear: 'sexual preference' is an offensive and outdated term,” she added. “It is used by anti-LGBTQ activists to suggest that sexual orientation is a choice.”

The Hawaii senator said labeling sexual orientation as “both a normal expression of human sexuality and immutable was a key part of the majority’s opinion in” Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the U.S.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...th-term-sexual


In short, no context. It's just offensive.

[Admiral Ackbar]

It doesn't matter what you know now to be offensive or not.. No matter your "understanding" These freaks look to make more $#@! offensive every day. What is ok now is not ok tomorrow. I don't care if they are offended or not. There is no right to not be offended

[carolina73]

I actually thought they would be offended by being denied free will and the ability to chose.

Oh no, you cannot be gay or straight because we determined you were born "this way".