Watch These Straight People Answer A Question Gay People Have Been Asked For Years

[WillParkinson]

http://www.upworthy.com/watch-these-straight-people-answer-a-question-gay-people-have-been-asked-for-years-6?g=2&c=upw1

[pinto]

1. +1

Good piece.

[Warpy]

2. I've been asking homophobes that question for years

and I usually just get a blank stare and a slight smell of burning plastic as they try to reboot. After they reboot, they just start dittoing out of context.

I wonder how many of those this guy got before he started getting answers.

[rurallib]

11. I have asked some recently and the look on their faces is incredible

I almost start laughing - almost like a 3 year old caught in an out and out lie.

[Democracyinkind]

3. One of the best questions to pose to homophobes...

Most other of those good questions involve penguins, though, and that's why I prefer them.

[AsahinaKimi]

4. excellent video

[LostOne4Ever]

5. Awesome video!

Watching the ones who said it was a choice backtrack was awesome!

[nikto]

6. I do not believe sexuality is a choice...

But even if it were, so what?

It's just not a problem to me, either way.

[closeupready]

12. I agree, but in arguing with authoritarians,

such as those who promote the 'gayness is a choice' argument, one gets further in building bridges by discussing those for whom sexuality is clearly defined, rather than discussing sexuality as lying on a continuum, or discussing Kinsey, etc.

[ejpoeta]

7. what a great video.

it's a logical question. if gay people choose to be gay, then we must choose to be straight right? thanks for sharing this.

[Old Union Guy]

8. When I was much younger I chose to be straight. Really. Yes I did.

But it didn't work.

Gay and out now for a while now.

[MichaelSoE]

10. absolutely brilliant

[nikto]

14. I'm not fabulous enough to be gay

But I'm pretty cool, for a breeder.

[enough]

9. k&r (nt)

[curlyred]

13. I want to rec this a gazillion

[stevenleser]

15. Great vid and resposted on FB.

When deciding where I was on this issue politically, some 20 years ago, this same question came to me. I didn't decide to be straight, I just am, and it immediately followed that LGBT folks must be the same way.