After reading this, Cactus, I have lost a lot of respect for you. I have never, ever "chosen" to be gay. It is who I am. I did not choose to be gay. I just am. Why would I choose to be gay, when living as a straight man would be a hell of a lot easier? Really? If I had the choice - what would make me go "oh, you know what, I'll live a life where I get reprimanded by people at school, my face smashed in (due to their own inability to understand what being gay is) and the inability to walk down the street holding hands with my partner because of fear of reprisal".
Yeah Cactus. It's totally a choice.
Edit: Just to be a little clearer: the reason I am gay is because I am sexually attracted to men, not women. How is that a choice? I didn't wake up one day and think "I'm going to like men today". I just do. And, actually, after having a few minutes to cool off, I think I would still be gay if someone gave me a choice now -- because there's nothing wrong with being gay. It's the rest of the world with its prejudice and discriminatory actions that needs to change. Not me.
Well this was possibly funny for the first day but it's gotten old and boring really fast. I figured comedy had something more to it than saying "fuck" and "homo" every other sentence, but apparently that makes a person funny around here.
Are we just keeping cookie around as some sort of animal in a cage, that we point and laugh at? Because (unwittingly?) he's now filled that role on the forum.