Originally posted by: Locut0s
Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Sexuality and sexual drive are two distinctly different things. When you grow up a little more, you may realize this. Or not and continue to be an insensitive jacka$$.
The clues are in the first few lines of this story. the first being... " sheltered life" The second... "Calling Mom...."
Dude never had the apron strings cut, has a poor self image, and an unrealistic view of the " Cold Hard World".
And the additional stereotyping you engaged him in did not address the underlying issue of Repression of Testosterone Based Behavior in Young Males in the Late 20th, Early 21st Century.
This rejection / modification of young male behaviors has this as it's eventual consequence. Boy's NEED to play rough just as girls NEED to play "House". It's part of the DNA coding we are trying to foolishly re-program.
I say the guy needs a true MALE Role Model / friend and your GF thought you might be that guy. Instead, you chose to be as adolescent about it as you could be, finding humor in anothers miery and THAT is what has upset her.
You failed her and you failed him, and she will probably always remember that failing.
Empathy would be better than Symapthy here. Try thinking of how you might feel were the situation reversed. Imagine how that question of "Are you 'gay'" would play out if your every waking moment were filled with confusion on the urges the guy feels versus the constant barrage of social messages of "no woman wants to be forced upon, let it develop naturally, "no means no", save it for marriage, etc. etc."
I say dude is messed up and Mom probably has herself as the root cause.
Poor guy.
Blah, blah, blame society and his mom, blah, blah, blah. Odd how his brothers and sisters ended up normal but he is a total mess. Dontcha think?
No. Just because some people manage OK in a family environment doesn't mean everyone will.
This guy has obviously led an extremely sheltered life. Now for some people with good coping skills growing up in a family like that won't necessarily change them dramatically, they will merely have a little harder time adjusting to life. I have also led a very sheltered existence and I'm also an older virgin, 23, so I can relate to that guy though I'd like to think my coping skills are better. This is not the only type of environment that can mess people up. My cousins live in an EXTREMELY family oriented family where everyone plays their stereotypical "happy upper class North American" family roles. Watching them is like seeing a drippy movie of what a good family should be. But it's also a very smothering environment. I can tell you that I could not stand being in an environment like that for long. And I'm sure they would say the same thing of other families. It all depends on your emotional make up and the type of emotional environment you grew up in.
And like others have said I see nothing in this that strongly suggests he is gay. There are plenty of repressed homosexuals who have trouble coming to terms with their sexuality, but they don't necessarily exhibit these problems. The fact that you think "gay" means 'namby-pamby can't face the world' seems to me to suggest that you know any gay people. I've encountered numerous gay individuals who have better emotional coping skills than your average straight guy. If anything better skills.