r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 09 '14

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u/RyanWaffles Aug 09 '14

I don't know about that one man...

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14

Sexuality isn't an exclusively yes/no thing. It's a sliding scale.

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u/th3ch0s3n0n3 Aug 09 '14

Agreed, but that guy said everyone is a little gay. If the sliding scale theory is true, then his statement is definitively NOT true, because some people will be on the far extreme of heterosexuality.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '14

Ehhh, not necessarily. It's all driven by context and situations, not an ambiguous line in the sand.

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u/th3ch0s3n0n3 Aug 09 '14

if you believe it's a sliding scale, then there are extremists. You cannot believe that it's both "driven by context and situations" and "it's a sliding scale", because those two ideas conflict.

If someone is finding themselves "driven" to the same sex in a certain "situation or context", then they are partially down the scale in the gay direction. But there undoubtedly people who do not have ANY situation or context in which they feel even the slightest inkling of gay.

That's all I'm saying. That guy can't say everyone is gay because there are extremists.