tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115935.post113741103416660295..comments2023-12-01T11:40:00.045+11:00Comments on Dikkii's Diatribe: A Slight Case of Overbombing Part 1 – Why people do not choose to be gay.Dikkiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07897381809885423712noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115935.post-71958547344008300012021-07-15T16:12:01.335+10:002021-07-15T16:12:01.335+10:00Good luck & keep writing such awesome content....Good luck & keep writing such awesome content.<br /><a href="www.thepuredentclinic.com" rel="nofollow"> Best dental clinic in Faridabad </a><br /><br /><a href="www.dantyog.com" rel="nofollow"> best child dentist in greater Noida</a><br /><a href="www.chmclass.com/" rel="nofollow">coaching in Greater Noida for CBSE 9 10 11 12th</a><br />Feeling wonderful after reading as such post. Thank you for sharing. Keep going <br /><a href="www.oilin.in" rel="nofollow">Virgin Linseed Oil BP</a><br /><a href="www.oilin.in/about-us" rel="nofollow">Pure Linseed Oil </a><br />CRKB IT SOLUTION PVT LTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11245148088020136095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115935.post-1138016188520281272006-01-23T22:36:00.000+11:002006-01-23T22:36:00.000+11:00Hi Anon,Whilst I can acknowledge that family has t...Hi Anon,<BR/><BR/>Whilst I can acknowledge that family has traditionally been held to involve people of complementary sexes and kiddies, this definition becomes somewhat troublesome from two perspectives - firstly, I consider that I and the lovely Ms Dikkii consider ourselves very much to be a family - despite the fact that we are unmarried and childless. Secondly, the definition of family online seems to be happy to occasionally encompass two or more people.<BR/><BR/>I looked this one up in the <I> Family Law Act (Cth) 1975 </I> which funnily enough, doesn't even have a definition of "family".<BR/><BR/>But I'm rather happy with definitions 1b and 2 from <A HREF="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=family" REL="nofollow">Dictionary.com</A>.<BR/><BR/>Which means that two (childless, sexes unspecified) would be considered a family by these definitions.<BR/><BR/>I'm also fairly sure that based on what I've seen so far, which is really only Dictionary.com and Wiktionary, that there is no consensus and that the definition above seems about half accepted.<BR/><BR/>I'm going to step in here at this point and re-iterate my view that, semantics aside, this is a convenient red herring for what is actually homophobic discrimination.<BR/><BR/>Just the fact that we're debating the meaning of family is proof of this. We debate the definition of family, they (being the hawks in the Howard government) get away with the real issue.<BR/><BR/>You raised the point that I might have missed the specific use of the term "anti-family" - I may have, I may not have, it's not important.<BR/><BR/>If the term "anti-family" has a specific meaning where family is not the broader meaning I have alluded to above, then I think we are the poorer for that and the "pro-family" lobby (quotation marks intended) can rightly claim a most unsavoury victory.Dikkiihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07897381809885423712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115935.post-1137987431972111962006-01-23T14:37:00.000+11:002006-01-23T14:37:00.000+11:00You test read: The whole thing about gay marriage ...You test read: The whole thing about gay marriage that I thought would appeal to the increasingly conservative Einsteins in Canberra, is that marriage is supposed to encourage a monogamous family unit, which is about as family as you can get.<BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>I believe what they will mean by "anti-family" would be that you can't procreate. A family has traditionally been considered two complementary sex adults and their children. If there are no children then they are referred to as a "couple", simply by the definition of the word. Now unless you have a mixture of sexes then no children can result. Of course there is adoption, but this would be a clear minority and governments only deal with majorities - that's how the get elected after all.<BR/><BR/>I would like to mention that I whole-heartedly support gay marriages. What people do in the bedroom is entirely up to them and they should be afforded the same rights of any complementary sex couple. I just thought that you missed the point of the term "anti-family".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com