reparative treatment

[Leanne]

What is most disturbing to me is the degree to which people are obsessed with the sex lives of others. Look at the kinds of people who believe this "reparative treatment" is possible and a good idea -- they're buttoned down, uptight middle class prim and proper pricks (and prickesses) who love to be offended by anything that isn't in their own immediate experience, which they keep deliberately narrow because being offended is what gets them off (it's the only kind of fun they can have standing up). If you repress any desire it becomes perverted and in their case, anything that looks like it makes people happy but isn't missionary represents a desire they can't express themselves, so they become obsessed with thinking about it. Look at the origin of the word "vicarious" - it's no accident.

So your kid turned out gay. I turned out to be a poet, imagine my parents' horror -- I was supposed to be an accountant.