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Kittigate

You began working for a company and find out you are the only 'straight' person employed there. Would you come out or stay ' in the closet'?

I think I would try to just pretend..

Posted - October 14, 2021
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  • 6023
    I would think the same thing I do when it comes to the opposite scenario.
    Why is it anybody else's business what is done in private between consenting adults?


      October 14, 2021 9:14 AM MDT
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  • 3024
    Amen!
      October 14, 2021 10:46 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    A person's sexual preferences are no one's business but their own.  I don't run around telling everyone I'm heterosexual and I don't know why anyone who isn't feels the need to shout it from the rooftops.  
      October 14, 2021 10:26 AM MDT
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  • 23641
    I get your point, yes. And I agree with you in principle, especially reading it from you, that there is no need to shout orientation from rooftops.
    But, unfortunately not all heterosexuals think like you do. Instead, many heterosexuals have taken it upon themselves to make sure to shout at non-heterosexuals - - "You are wrong! You are nature's mistake! You are a perversion of nature! You can go to hell! You are a major reason for the world going wrong!"

    After hearing such things shouted at one's self from so many others for a bulk of one's life, one might want to at least whisper back, "I am simply a human being."








      October 15, 2021 8:04 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    I am truly sorry that has happened to you and others.  I don't know why anyone cares who you sleep with or who you love or why.  It doesn't affect anyone else's life if their lifestyles are different.  I don't believe homosexuality is a choice - you are born that way, the same as others are born heterosexual.  Yes, they are human beings, the same as everyone else.
      October 16, 2021 8:43 AM MDT
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  • 23641
    Yes.

    Yes.


    Thank you, my friend.  :)  
      October 16, 2021 6:48 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    You are so very welcome, my dear. :)
      October 16, 2021 7:46 PM MDT
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  • 1817
    i simply wouldn't discuss it because my sexual orientation isn't relevant 
      October 14, 2021 10:52 AM MDT
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  • 10662
    Why should there be a problem?  I'm not ashamed of my heterosexuality any more than they are of their homosexuality.  I've worked with many people who were not, as you put it, "straight". They didn't go around flaunting their sexual orientation, they just did their job.  
      October 14, 2021 12:43 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      What would it have to do with the job itself or with my job performance? I am now retired, but I can’t imagine myself in any job or profession wherein my heterosexuality would or might threaten co-workers. Does such a job or profession even exist?
    ~

      October 14, 2021 12:49 PM MDT
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  • 44649
    Working in a gay bar? Nah...no one would care.
      October 14, 2021 1:39 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      Unless being other-than-hetero is a condition of employment or is clearly listed as part of the KSA. 
    ~

      October 14, 2021 5:17 PM MDT
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  • 16829
    I don't see it as anybody else's business but mine. I can't se how it would matter, unless I was working in gay porn.
      October 14, 2021 5:32 PM MDT
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  • In gay porn, it WOULD matter.
      October 15, 2021 1:44 PM MDT
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  • 53524
    That’s exactly what he said, right?
    ~
      October 16, 2021 5:17 AM MDT
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  • 23641
    I only now just caught that myself! I had seen the reply up there but didn't catch that Slartibartfast had exactly said it. indeed, you are correct.  :)

      (I now forget who "The-Now-Benedict" was - - just saw it yesterday but the name escapes me.)

    EDIT: One of your other questions answered for me - - Sandy Sandboxes This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at October 16, 2021 11:04 PM MDT
      October 16, 2021 6:53 PM MDT
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  • 17614
    I wouldn't care and wouldn't pretend. 
      October 15, 2021 12:09 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    I think it would be kind of fun for me pretending to be gay for a while but  then I think the guys would sooner  or later  catch on anyway. This post was edited by Kittigate at October 16, 2021 6:49 PM MDT
      October 15, 2021 10:22 PM MDT
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  • 17614
    One must rise early in the morning to get ahead of you......................
      October 16, 2021 2:52 AM MDT
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  • 11089
    I could never live a lie and I don't expect anyone else to.
      October 15, 2021 8:57 PM MDT
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  • 23641
    (Wow - - thank you, Kittigate, for the Pick. I was surprised. Very kind of you.)
      October 16, 2021 6:49 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    You are most welcome!
      October 16, 2021 7:01 PM MDT
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