NBA Player 'Comes Out' -- but Tolerance Cuts Both Ways

Townhall.com ^ | May 2, 2013 | Larry Elder

[wbill]

Self loathing is at the core of most homosexuality

Interesting point, I'd have said "An Unnatural Need to be the Center of Attention".

I'll chew on "Self-Loathing", will pay a little more attention at the next get-together.

[Norm Lenhart]

Ponder:

Homos make everything about being gay. My sister in law was a master of that until her black girlfriend left her for a dude. Then she was straight and everything wasn’t about her gayness anymore. That indicates to me a need to belong to something and it can be a throwaway as it proved to be with her.

So why the need? What is missing that gay needs to fill the role of? As you saw, there is a big mental thing there and most mental problems come down to a problem with the self and the perception of the self.

When one has such ‘problems’ with unhappiness with the self, that is textbook self loathing. “I must fix me because I hate me. Gays like me when I do that thing so I will do that thing and be happy like/with them! I can belong!”

Except they aren’t really happy with their self either.

Viscous circle.

Something to think about.

[OldPossum]

In the 1950’s they were not “gay.” They were homosexuals.

I guess it depends where you lived then. I grew up in the South in the 1950s and I cannot ever recall anyone referring to them as "homosexuals." They were "queers" to us.