Someone assumed I was gay again...

[Archae]

I'm 58 years old, but I never married.

Nope, no divorces, I just never got married.

So some guy on another message board assumed I was gay.
(Complete with nasty anti-gay slur. Yup, the guy is a "conservative." )

I'm totally hetero, and I accept gays, as they are.

I had a great-uncle who lived to be into his 90's, and he never married.
And he had girlfriends. Even into his 80's! (Maybe longer!)

I know a few guys who are in their 40's and older like me who never got married.

So why the assumption of being gay?

[Angry Dragon]

1. Some how feel threatened by you??

[Guilded Lilly]

3. Yupppp. Methinks turning a personal, internal unhappiness or fear into

an assumptive slam or supposed shallow insult on someone else is a sure sign of individual insecurity and flawed view of one’s own life.

Methinks he doth protest too much?

[Guilded Lilly]

2. My assumption? Narrow-minded stereo typing, much like the old maid...

Ageism/gender stereotyping of women who aren’t married.
It’s a sucky, dense attitude that insults heterosexuals, LGBT and...human intelligence.

Their flaw. Their mental baggage.

[WheelWalker]

4. It's not about you. It's about them.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. I have a male friend, now 70, who likewise never got married.

Just never met the right woman is the best way to express it.

Other than that he is, as I like to say, a flaming heterosexual.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Same thing for me with men

Never met the right guy at the right time. I've met the right guy(s) at the wrong time and lord knows I met some wrong guys at the right time.

[MFM008]

6. People like making assumptions

I get pegged as a man because of MFM. Which are my initials.....
Go figuere..

[blueinredohio]

7. My brother never married he said I'm not working all week to hand it to some woman

and he can tolerate kids for a little while but really doesn't like them.

[Trust Buster]

8. Why on earth would you refer to this jerk as a conservative ?

[Archae]

9. Not a conservative. A "conservative."

A fake, a phony.

[Funtatlaguy]

10. You write well.

Good grammar
Good speller
And, probably a good (maybe even a fabulous 😃 dresser?

[Archae]

11. Not really...

Pull over shirts and jeans.

[Funtatlaguy]

13. Lol. Maybe you are just a polite

Well mannered, well spoken person.
Take it as a compliment.
Unless it’s a woman you want to have sex with.
Then, ask her just how bad she wants to find out.
She will then be obligated to have sex with you. 🤣 haha.

[Archae]

15. That's just it, I don't know any "pickup lines..."

And my tang get all tonguled up talking to women.

I kind of envied this one guy I knew decades ago.

He'd walk into a bar, see a nice looking woman, walk up to them and say flat out, "Wanna fuck?"
Oh, he got slapped, punched and kicked a lot, but he got girls into the sack too.
I haven't seen the guy in decades, and I realize now that the girls he got, weren't the type I wanted to get to know.

But, takes all kinds, I guess.

So now the only girls in my life are my family, and my 2 cats.

[Funtatlaguy]

16. Just watch Joey in any old episode of Friends.

“How YOU doin?”

[Generic Brad]

12. What a strange assumption to make

How someone thinks they can know someone's most intimate and private details based on the smallest snippets of available information is beyond me.

[ailsagirl]

17. That it's hopeless stereotyping is obvious

It's them, not you

[Laffy Kat]

18. Honestly, I think it's a generational thing.

Kids these days are all over the place sexually and they don't care. Once our generation dies out, no one will assume anything and no one will judge either. The kids have got this. It's all good.