***I was originally going to post this in the Forum Lounge, but it is definitely way too long.***
Trolled the fuck out of my Human Growth and Development class yesterday. Due to an argument that some other kids were having in class last week, my teacher went off syllabus, split us up into groups and gave each group a slip of paper with a "Dilemma" we had to react to. My group's dilemma was something along the lines of:
"You become very good friends with an older man. Another one of your most trusted and good friends introduced you to him. You grow very close, and he is a defacto uncle for you. Suddenly you find out that he is gay. The friend that introduced you knew this when he introduced you guys. The older man does not know that you now know he is gay. What would you do?"
I immediately sensed a good opportunity to troll, and obviously seized upon this. My response was I didn't have the slightest problem with him being gay, but that I would feel betrayed by this older gay man, someone who is supposedly a "close, good and trusted" friend. This man is obviously out of the closet and open about his sexuality with others, so why would he deceive me in this manner? If we were close friends, he really should have shared that with me.
I didn't think this was too controversial of a statement, but ohhh no. The teacher and a lesbian in the class jumped on me for this, and said that I don't have any right to know what his sexuality was.
I responded, saying that yeah, as someone who is close and trusted friends with this guy, I really do have a right to know. Its not like he is in the closet - he is open about this with others it seems. I then said that something as integral a part of your identity as your sexuality is definitely something that all of your very good friends should know, not just a select few - and that if he didn't want to share that with me, then we clearly aren't close friends.
This pissed the teacher off biggggg time. She was really angry about me saying that sexuality was such an integral part of your identity, and said "Yeah, MHaes, well what if you have a 1 inch penis? Would you tell all your close friends something like that?"
I said. "Well, having a 1 inch penis would not be part of my self identity, nowhere near to the extent being a homosexual would be."
She responds, "HA! Yeah right, you're a male! Having a 1 inch penis is DEFINITELY part of your self identity!"
I told her, "Wow, it seems that you know a lot about what it means to be a man. I'd love to hear a lecture from you on masculinity since you seem to be such a renowned expert in the field." This REALLY pissed her off.
But at this point the lesbian chimes in, saying that perhaps the gay older man was hiding it from me because he feared for his safety. She pointed out that in the past, "gays have been persecuted for their sexuality, being beaten, tortured, and thrown over barbed wire fences and left to die."
I replied, "Wow, talk about an appeal to emotion. However, I'll respond to it.
#1 We are in New England, not Nebraska. Gay people really don't fear for their safety up here, so that example is stupid.
#2 Apparently we are very good close friends - since he is out of the closet and open about his sexuality, why would he be friends with anyone who is a homophobe? Why do that? Do you really think a gay person would be friends with someone who they think would kill them if they shared their sexuality with that person?
#3 [This one really set them off, I had to hide my snickers as I said it] Isn't it a bit narcissistic to think that everyone is out to get you for being gay? I mean seriously, lets look at what narcissism is. Two huge components of being narcissistic are selfishness, and egotism. It's pretty selfish, IMO, to not share something as integral to your self Identity like your sexuality, with some friends but not other very close friends. And egotism is an obsession with how you appear to others - and by not sharing something like your sexuality with a close friend because you are worried about how you might appear to this friend, are not showing some egotism?"
They were fucking livid after this happened. The teacher said "Well, MHaes, are you not narcissistic for not sharing that fact that you have a 1 inch penis with everyone?" The lesbian chimed in with some comment about me having a 1 inch penis, so I turned to her, looked her directly in the eye, and said "You are welcome to see my dick." This shut her up quickly. I then turned to the teacher and said, "Wow, you really seem to be focused on my penis. I wonder, what would Freud say about this?" This shut her up also.
We had about one minute left in class, so I decided to finish my trolling up with a bang, so to speak. "Clearly this older man is going through life with a distrustful outlook on everything and everyone he meets. This probably has contributed to him losing a fair number of friends, but more importantly, that really can't be healthy. It must be so difficult to live in a dichotomy like that. I wonder what effects that is having on his mental health."
The class was over, I stood up, and walked out the door. My ruse was successful.
Trolled the fuck out of my Human Growth and Development class yesterday. Due to an argument that some other kids were having in class last week, my teacher went off syllabus, split us up into groups and gave each group a slip of paper with a "Dilemma" we had to react to. My group's dilemma was something along the lines of:
"You become very good friends with an older man. Another one of your most trusted and good friends introduced you to him. You grow very close, and he is a defacto uncle for you. Suddenly you find out that he is gay. The friend that introduced you knew this when he introduced you guys. The older man does not know that you now know he is gay. What would you do?"
I immediately sensed a good opportunity to troll, and obviously seized upon this. My response was I didn't have the slightest problem with him being gay, but that I would feel betrayed by this older gay man, someone who is supposedly a "close, good and trusted" friend. This man is obviously out of the closet and open about his sexuality with others, so why would he deceive me in this manner? If we were close friends, he really should have shared that with me.
I didn't think this was too controversial of a statement, but ohhh no. The teacher and a lesbian in the class jumped on me for this, and said that I don't have any right to know what his sexuality was.
I responded, saying that yeah, as someone who is close and trusted friends with this guy, I really do have a right to know. Its not like he is in the closet - he is open about this with others it seems. I then said that something as integral a part of your identity as your sexuality is definitely something that all of your very good friends should know, not just a select few - and that if he didn't want to share that with me, then we clearly aren't close friends.
This pissed the teacher off biggggg time. She was really angry about me saying that sexuality was such an integral part of your identity, and said "Yeah, MHaes, well what if you have a 1 inch penis? Would you tell all your close friends something like that?"
I said. "Well, having a 1 inch penis would not be part of my self identity, nowhere near to the extent being a homosexual would be."
She responds, "HA! Yeah right, you're a male! Having a 1 inch penis is DEFINITELY part of your self identity!"
I told her, "Wow, it seems that you know a lot about what it means to be a man. I'd love to hear a lecture from you on masculinity since you seem to be such a renowned expert in the field." This REALLY pissed her off.
But at this point the lesbian chimes in, saying that perhaps the gay older man was hiding it from me because he feared for his safety. She pointed out that in the past, "gays have been persecuted for their sexuality, being beaten, tortured, and thrown over barbed wire fences and left to die."
I replied, "Wow, talk about an appeal to emotion. However, I'll respond to it.
#1 We are in New England, not Nebraska. Gay people really don't fear for their safety up here, so that example is stupid.
#2 Apparently we are very good close friends - since he is out of the closet and open about his sexuality, why would he be friends with anyone who is a homophobe? Why do that? Do you really think a gay person would be friends with someone who they think would kill them if they shared their sexuality with that person?
#3 [This one really set them off, I had to hide my snickers as I said it] Isn't it a bit narcissistic to think that everyone is out to get you for being gay? I mean seriously, lets look at what narcissism is. Two huge components of being narcissistic are selfishness, and egotism. It's pretty selfish, IMO, to not share something as integral to your self Identity like your sexuality, with some friends but not other very close friends. And egotism is an obsession with how you appear to others - and by not sharing something like your sexuality with a close friend because you are worried about how you might appear to this friend, are not showing some egotism?"
They were fucking livid after this happened. The teacher said "Well, MHaes, are you not narcissistic for not sharing that fact that you have a 1 inch penis with everyone?" The lesbian chimed in with some comment about me having a 1 inch penis, so I turned to her, looked her directly in the eye, and said "You are welcome to see my dick." This shut her up quickly. I then turned to the teacher and said, "Wow, you really seem to be focused on my penis. I wonder, what would Freud say about this?" This shut her up also.
We had about one minute left in class, so I decided to finish my trolling up with a bang, so to speak. "Clearly this older man is going through life with a distrustful outlook on everything and everyone he meets. This probably has contributed to him losing a fair number of friends, but more importantly, that really can't be healthy. It must be so difficult to live in a dichotomy like that. I wonder what effects that is having on his mental health."
The class was over, I stood up, and walked out the door. My ruse was successful.
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