[quote=@Darcs]
I actually don't think so, hiding sexuality just encourages these weird hypocritical neo-puritan societal values...
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I know your post is bigger than just a single line, I promise, I'm not doing bullet-by-bullet dissections of anything, I just really think this sentence right here can be significant. "Weird hypocritical neo-puritan societal values....." Now, [url=http://www.classicforwards.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/billboard-religion-penis.jpg]I'm just gonna leave this here[/url] and suppose aloud that if we changed the word 'puritan' to -- well I was going to say 'religious,' but every time I use it people think I'm insulting them. I'm not. I'm religious. I like religious people. But I'll walk it back.

Let's just say that, in a pride parade, there is (often deliberate) weirdness, there is SOME hypocrisy (esp. considering the topic at hand -- straight people aren't allowed to have a pride parade -- but more generally consider the linked image), and, if we consider 'neo-puritan' to mean people holding certain values and enforcing them upon others, well.... you know what it's a stretch, but I think the school of tolerance has been elevated to near-religious status. Granted, the reason nobody complains is because that's kinda great. But still.

MY BROADER POINT BEING -- I hear a phrase like 'weird, hypocritical neo-puritan' and it sounds like an insult. But buddy, that's all of us. Isn't that the point of a pride parade in the first place? And if you're thinking, 'we're not hypocrites,' then I refer you back to the linked image -- just replace 'religion' with 'sexual orientation.' 

[b]Yes, I'm a hypocrite too.[/b] Part of being one is, I don't really know it, but I certainly suspect and believe it. My point isn't 'I'm better than you.' My point is we're both assholes, everybody's the same flavor of asshole, so there's no point insulting anyone about it.