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d_r

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31. they are trying to prove

Reply to Rex (Reply #11)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 10:12 PM

Feb 2014

to themselves and others that they aren't gay. "Look at how much I hate gay, see? I can't be gay. I hate it."

It is because they are gay but grew up being taught it was wrong and they can't come to grips with it so they have to deny it. Its the ultimate form of denial to persecute people who are like what you are afraid to admit you are.

People who aren't gay don't really care.

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From 2010. louis-t Feb 2014 #1

D'oh! I thought the update part was new. JaneyVee Feb 2014 #2

I remember this too. My first thought was…. "Again?!?!" nt stillwaiting Feb 2014 #20

Mine, too. Being gay is innate Warpy Feb 2014 #27

IMO a big part of the RW mindset is about stopping other people CJCRANE Feb 2014 #3

yep. nt awoke_in_2003 Feb 2014 #6

Rent A Boy seems to be a popular site with Republicans Oilwellian Feb 2014 #4

How Republicon is that? Berlum Feb 2014 #5

Old news is old sakabatou Feb 2014 #7

Absolutely! SoapBox Feb 2014 #9

Like fine wine... dchill Feb 2014 #25

... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2014 #8

Right? cyberswede Feb 2014 #10

I will never understand why closet homosexuals like George Rex Feb 2014 #11

I think it is very understandable. pangaia Feb 2014 #15

So they live miserable inside the whole time they are being hypocrites on the outside? Rex Feb 2014 #16

To be honest, it is, of course, not just GOP'ers who have issues with denial. pangaia Feb 2014 #18

Yes you talk about procrastination, one of my good - yet unwanted friends. Rex Feb 2014 #21

They want something to rein in their proclivities tblue Feb 2014 #26

It's hard to open up when you know that... Shandris Feb 2014 #32

Reaction formation: Anxiety of impulse or tendency leads to expression of the opposite. Gravitycollapse Feb 2014 #30

they are trying to prove d_r Feb 2014 #31

As the Dead sang in "Truckin'" PCIntern Feb 2014 #12

Is there one . . . OldRedneck Feb 2014 #13

oh, SNAP! NYtoBush-Drop Dead Feb 2014 #14

Plot Twist! armed_and_liberal Feb 2014 #17

One day they'll all get caught. And then we will be free. Initech Feb 2014 #19

Hypocrisy surely must rank among the most despicable of human foibles indepat Feb 2014 #22

So "the Long Stroke" Was To Help "Them" DallasNE Feb 2014 #23

Spelling error. Please fix. Blue State Bandit Feb 2014 #24

And then he said "Believe me for what I say I am, not for what I am". Thinkingabout Feb 2014 #28

How naive are the people that follow hypocrites like that? nt bluestate10 Feb 2014 #29

Well, I'm not really surprised. Lunacee_2013 Feb 2014 #33