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[athaleon]

MAN I can't tell you how AWESOME it is when people are having a debate about homosexuality and a participant drops a logic bomb like
If they want to add that people who contributed to stuff were gay, then they should change the textbooks to include stuff like; Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, enjoyed delving into a nice ripe vagina once in a

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[zarniwoop]

It would make the serious textbooks far more awesome though, if it meant they were full of stuff like "After a hard evening's code-breaking, Alan Turing enjoyed a nice ripe cock of an evening, while Tommy Flowers preferred to relax after some tough design work by being spanked by a nun with giant tits" or "Hitler was a notoriously conservative shag, but Hermann Goering was game for anything".

[navyraptor]

"Nice, ripe vagina"

Y'know, describing it like that is NOT going to make me any less gay. It may even push me further in that direction.

This textbook we're writing sounds like a bad Monty Python skit.

[zarniwoop]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CAUi0uoy-YY

[navyraptor]

Exactly!

I could seriously imagine John Cleese as a historian calmly relating to his class the wildly lacsivious sex appetites of famous world leaders.

[incinerated]

Well, oftentimes one's sexual preferences simply have little pertinence to one's historical significance

[athaleon]

If you are unaware that there are people suggesting that textbooks mention that certain important people in history were gay, you can skip the rest of this comment.

It IS important that historical figures were homosexual. The more historical significance they have, the more important it is to show that despite being gay they were still good people who contributed to society. The purpose of adding this kind of information to textbooks is to prove that homosexuality is not a new thing invented by the hippies and that homosexuals are not all immoral freaks bent on destroying society, that in fact some have contributed significantly to it. It's much less ridiculous than specifying the sexuality of all historical figures because almost everybody is straight. Would you say, since we specify when an engine is diesel, propane or electric, that we should specify when it's gas as well? Gas is the default, you only need to be more specific when there's deviation from the norm. Heterosexuality is the default, people assume that any given

[incinerated]

Shit, I did not know that.

I HAVE, however, seen a few textbooks that have mentioned the sexual preference thing before.

I guess I just have a radically different mindset than most of America.
I honestly do not believe that someone's bedroom/kitchen/shower/camping mannerisms have any real bearing on their relation to me unless they're actively trying to hump me.

[incinerated]

P.S.
Diesel IS gas. It's just refined a little differently.
And propane is even MORE a gas than gas.

Because at normal Earthbound temps and pressures, propane is in gaseous form.
's gas.

Unless, if course... you meant gasoline.
Regular old 720 g/l petrol.

Then... yeah, I get your drift.

[incinerated]

The sad thing is that they say "Black History Month," but they really mean "Dark Skinned American History Month."

They never taught anything about aboriginal people of Austrailia or ANYTHING about the history and background of Africa.
Not even so much as a word in my schools.

And the sad part is, black people were the majority there.
They're hearing the same things over and over every year.
Not that what they teach ISN'T important, but it's such a NARROW focus.