Our IQs have never been higher – but it hasn’t made us smart

Re:Our IQs have never been higher – but it hasn’t made us smart by RileyKyeden on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:10AM (#12612908)

A non-gay person probably interprets their isolation differently. It'd be "why can't I get laid like all my friends?," not "why don't I want to get laid like all my friends? Am I broken?" I had lots of offers, but I didn't want it from the people offering.

But that's my limited perspective as someone who's not hetero or bi. I could be wrong. I spent my first 29 years thinking everyone was making up the whole concept of attraction before I figured out what all those feelings I had for guys were.

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Re:Our IQs have never been higher – but it hasn’t made us smart by mordocai on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:22AM (#12612997)

I readily admit it is probably different in the details but as said I was under the impression that the feeling of isolation and friends moving on etc was pretty normal across the board.

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Re:Our IQs have never been higher – but it hasn’t made us smart by RileyKyeden on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:31AM (#12613046)

A person who rode a roller coaster and a person who survived a hungry lion experienced fear, but the details are what make the story. Being gay in the rural south is like facing a hungry lion.

From what I've read and heard, heterosexuality is like riding a roller coaster with a good safety record, and bisexuality is like riding the same roller coaster, but the other passengers are lions.

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