I had this whole idea of this video I wanted to make
kinda explaining my thoughts and ideas on sexual preference
and so the first thing when I started to do that was
googled sexual preference and it turns out that
the term sexual preference
is considered offensive and the reason that some people consider
offensive is because the term preference
implies "choice". So my first reaction to finding this out
was that their seem to be a lot of things I'm supposed to find offensive as
a gay person
that I didn't even know about
the second thing I thought about was that didn't really make sense to me
so it turns out that there are actually different types of preferences
and in psychology there are preferences that are
non-choice preferences like biological preference
and genetic preference and sexual preference
falls under those categories. So if you're educated, referring to it as sexual preference
isn't actually bad or shouldn't offend you
as long as someone is referring to it as
a biological or genetic or "non-choice" preference
Which I am, in this video, considering it a non choice
preference. So my first idea, before I did any of this
research was to compare
sexual preference to another type of preference
and I was just going to compare it to a food preference and then after a I started doing this research
I realized maybe that would be offensive to compare
your preference for gender to
a preference for food. But crazily enough
there are now European scientists that are researching
a new project on the genetics of food preference
so this research actually says that
our genetic makeup may dictate which
foods we find attractive and which ones we don't
so I was like that's crazy! it's all genetic it's all
non choice preference so I'm going to compare sexuality
with food preference and it's not offensive
okay so let's just talk about food. I'm going to compare
apples and bananas and my preference for them
My personal preference. I don't like bananas.
At all. I've never liked em'. I don't know why. Must be in my genes.
so when I'm faced with an apple or
banana I'm gonna choose an apple 99.9999999% of the time
but on this same spectrum there are going to be people who
pick a banana 99.9999999% of the time
because they don't like Apples, and that's okay! In that same way
on preference for men and women I'm
going to choose a woman 99.9999999999999999999
999999 percent of the time
and on the opposite side, there are girls that are gonna like
boys 99.999% of the time
in science those two ends are the extreme cases, right?
in real life I think we can all agree that you're more likely to find someone
who's going to pick
an Apple 60% of the time and a banana
40% of the time and people that pick an apple 50% of the time
and a banana 50% of the time, or banana.. whatever
any combination of these percentages. it actually kinda makes more sense
to be someone who just likes them both
that's actually a concept that makes more sense to us, right? meeting someone
who likes apples and bananas, is not that freakin weird!
we wouldn't consider someone who likes apples AND bananas selfish
or indecisive or confused
we would just consider them a person who finds joy
in apples and bananas
SO, if sexuality is a preference, a non-choice preference,
genetic preference, just like liking one food or another
is maybe now a genetic preference. Then would you not agree
that someone who is homosexual and someone
who is straight are actually the extremes! and there are
a helluva lot more people that fall in the middle
than on the ends. Doesn't that make more sense?
it's funny because I feel like it's not that hard of a concept to
imagine or understand but like
we still don't really get that in real life, right? Like
we still have a hard time believing that someone can
find equal pleasure in dating a girl as they can in dating a guy
and I think that has a lot to do with just stereotypes. if we would
stop thinking of bisexuals
as the crazy girl at a party looking for attention
and making out with girls or the gay guy
who is just half closeted. maybe we could open ourselves up to the idea that
it actually makes a lot more sense to find pleasure in both!
my main reason for making this video
is that, I've just seen a lot of negative
reactions to bisexuality
and the thing that bothers me so much about that
is that so much of that negativity comes
from the gay community. I just can't wrap my head around
how a group of people who have been personally
oppressed because of their sexuality
could do the same thing to someone else. like you'd think we'd understand more
than anyone
how painful that is, but yet we do it. So those are just my opinions
on sexuality and what I think of sexual preference and... yeah
I wanna hear what y'alls ideas are about sexual preference
and I just think it's an interesting thing to talk about and I like getting new ideas and opinions
about it
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