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Please, any idea where I can stream this match? |
Be good at whatever you do. |
Wow! This is sad! |
I like some of his tracks but everyone mustn't be a fan. I don't see anything wrong with saying "he makes good music but I'm not a fan". That's respectfully acknowledging his talents while assertively stating his kinda music doesn't appeal to you. Music is an art, you just like what you like. Some other persons might say Asa or nothing, and that's valid too. The problem only arises when you feel you're better than others for having a different taste. |
Can't remember but it was almost one month counting from the time I actually started searching cause I'd earlier gone on vacation to cool off after my final exams. Some of my classmates were picked by on-campus recruiters that arrived after I had already traveled. I felt bad but today, I'm happy things went that way. Years later, I was back in search of talents. |
She's reporter and she's doing her job. Stop sexualizing her. The way you guys police women in Nigeria is alarming. Maybe if you had spent this amount of energy on your studies, you'd have known how to spell "journalist". |
DannyG8:It's from your end cause you had the dream, nothing extraordinary here. Your brain can't 'conjure up' a mental image of her if the thought of her had never crossed your mind at all. Maybe nothing serious like hate or like, but you've definitely had reasons to think of her at some point. |
Dude, leave this alpha male rubbish and address the issues in your life. You're facing domestic violence and you're more interested in a title that only exists in your head. You guys on the platform are full of surprises. |
mysportdab:OP, this is an incomplete sentence. What happened to the 37 workers? Nice one from the team. Human rights should be protected at all levels and at all costs. |
mysportdab:OP, this is an incomplete sentence. What happened to the 37 workers? |
Lol... They are all shouting "is this supposed to be news?" cause it wasn't a negative note. I'm sure if the kid had written "I hate you", they would have been celebrating and reminding her why she shouldn't have married the man. |
DannyG8:Then you loathe her. The point I'm trying to make is that whatever led to her appearing in your dream is from your own end, and has nothing to do with what will happen in the future or how she perceives you. |
He is sad cause another family has decided to love their own kids unconditionally? For the lady's sake, I sincerely hope the relationship ended after that visit. |
Olobofife:Hahaha... OP, your mind is playing tricks on you. You've probably entertained the thoughts of being with her before. |
"... and If you want to be popular, just pick a fight with someone popular!" - Cardi B, 2017 |
Nobody would have thought oo from Daddy Jam Jam – to catching fevers with Wizzy Baby and now to low budget Obama.If she turns him down: they only like money, they'll never go for a poorer guy. If she accepts him: shocking! She's sleeping with low budget Obama! People sleep with people and she's not any different from the majority of people reading this thread. She's an adult and like someone said, it's her choice. That's if this is true. Meanwhile, is it that none of the team members noticed the spelling error below? ![]()
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Please, where can I stream this match online? |
blueAgent:The burden of proof is not on me, brother. If you scroll up, you'll see your comment where you explicitly said doctors have found proof nobody was born gay; maybe we can start by providing that proof. Personally, I do not think science has enough data to determine sexuality at birth. However, the fact that there are thousands gay people out who grew up just like everyone else in all types of environment speaks volumes. blueAgent:No, sex between two consenting adults can never be compared with sex with a minor. I don't think I need to say much on that. Yes, I'm sentimental towards gay people especially those in Africa and I'm unapologetic about it. To me, staying silent while others are being persecuted is tantamount to encouraging it. Like it or hate it, there's no justification for persecuting gay people in Africa. None whatsoever. |
blueAgent:No, I didn't invalidate your experience. It's just not very useful in this particular context in which you've brought it up especially if you consider the question I asked that made you share the story. Having had a roommate with whom you didn't get along well doesn't really give you any insight into the life of a gay person. He might have been abused but given your relationship with him, he'd say anything to make you more sympathetic or less judgemental towards him. Like I said, people tell thier truth when they're at ease. Sleep with them? Lol... I've said over and over again that all you need to do is to be welcoming/receptive and open minded enough to have, at least, one of them as a close friend without judging. That is the only you can understand what it means to be gay. Otherwise, you'd just be like a black man telling a white man how to tan. And to answer your question about the ones I know, yes they said so. I grew up in an environment where gay people aren't as closeted as they are in Africa. I have them as friends, colleagues, school mates, etc. These guys don't have any major event that made them gay. At puberty, they realized they were different. Some had a hard time accepting themselves but that was all about it. There's nothing ironical here. Like I said, sexuality isn't just about sex but the emotional connection between two people. I don't have any problem with you calling it psychological. Attraction is psychological. Being straight is psychological. The point, however, is that it is not a psychological issue. It is the mother nature doing what it does best, variation (applies to virtually everything natural). What you call normal is anything common/visible around you, in this case heterosexuality. Homosexuality may not be as common but it's a valid sexuality nevertheless. Live and let live. |
njelrapheal:Not really, trans people are happier after transitioning. If you have any contrary statistics, please drop me a link and I'll appreciate it. That will enrich my repository of human right stats. People assume they'd be unhappy because they've got no idea how unhappy these guys were prior to transitioning. Bro, life is however you and I make it to be and everyday, we work to make it even more livable cause as humans, we are to live life and not endure life. Recall that a baby's gender was determined by chance in the past, today parents can engineer that. Babies develop in tubes today. Women give birth vis CS. People do cosmetic surgery. You can't be unhappy for the rest of your because "that's the way life is" while there's solution out there. You don't really expect people to desist from something that makes them feel good cause you don't like it. At the same time, you can't fully understand the struggles of others. I don't understand what you mean by "foist it on others" |
advanceDNA:Ok, I'm actually relieved you don't hate people for thier personal choices. I don't really think you understand the extent to which these trans people felt trapped. To give you an idea, can you imagine waking up in the morning and realizing you now have a female body and therefore must put on female outfits, do things ladies do (including sanitary stuff) and share washrooms with women? You might not mind for day, but for a lifetime? The transitioning procedure, whether surgical or not, is long and difficult. Someone who decided to embark on this journey knowing how long and difficult it is definitely sees as the only means of survival. It's nice of you suggest therapy but therapy will not really change them from who they are. Neither will therapy remove the existing gender norms in the world. Therapy will definitely not stop others from looking down on them (especially the male ones). A few people might regret making the move (just like any other life decision) but the vast majority of trans people out there are happier after transitioning, and honestly, that's all that matters. All in all, we live and let live. |
advanceDNA:Lol... I think he got it mixed up. |
njelrapheal:Hmm... Ok, you came in late. I wouldn't want to repeat myself but I'd try to reply nevertheless. People who transition into other genders don't know how to be any other thing but that gender. It's almost a survival thing. A woman doesn't feel comfortable with beards, a woman does feel comfortable being flat chested, a woman doesn't feel comfortable having a deep voice, a woman doesn't feel comfortable with a bulge in-between her legs, a woman doesn't opening her legs wide while sitting, a woman doesn't comfortable with lumps of muscles and thick lips, etc. Now, Imagine one lady that has all these discomforting features at the same time. That's suicidal. That's an lifetime of sadness. And that's exactly what some men feel. They feel trapped in a body that doesn't agree with who they are. They are expected to put on men's stuff, share bathrooms with men, etc. That's hell and such a person can never be happy. We are talking about adults here. You don't outgrow who you are. You only perfect the art of pretence/camouflage. Like I said earlier, people who transition don't just do it to look good. They don't do it for fun. They don't do it thoughtlessly. They do it to be happy. They do it to be themselves. They do it to be free. And contrary to your submission, the majority of them end up much happier with their lives. I'm against stereotypes myself. I'm against gender norms. But I know that even in the absence of those, gender will always classify us. In today's world, parents chose the sex of thier unborn kids. I don't see any reason why an adult can't have that same right over himself. You may not agree but another party cannot remain sad for a lifetime cause of your own personal convictions. Therefore, while you are well within your rights to disagree with thier decision as an observer, you shouldn't stand in the way of thier right to take that decision. We only live once. |
blueAgent:You see the first part in bold? That's all that matters. You can't know about the history and struggles of someone whom you only had to tolerate cause you had no choice. Such a person would never have you as a confidant regardless of how many years you live together. You have to connect with people to know them. I'm not trying to invalidate your experience but it just doesn't fit in here. I asked you a question "how many gay people do you have as close friends or as family members open to you?" Sincerely speaking, do you really think your room mate counts? Africans aren't open minded towards gay people. You hate them even before meeting one for the first time. They hide from you and when you eventually find out, you think you know enough about them to tell them what made them gay? It doesn't work that way. The people you know became straight? Brother, the fact that you don't even know the gay people around you is enough to tell you wouldn't know if or when someone's sexual orientation changes. It's not written on the face and it's not a function of whom you're sleeping with at the moment. Sexuality goes beyond sex (this is one thing people don't understand). Like I said to someone above, sexuality is about the deep emotional connection you have with someone. Anybody can sleep with anyone. Straight people sleep with men for money, gay people sleep with women to cover up. But a gay man can never love a woman the way he loves a man just like you can never love a man the way you love a woman. @second_bolded_part, actually what you said was that it has been proven nobody was born gay. Thanks for peddling it down a bit. Tell me more about gay people when you have them as friends. Otherwise, your assumptions made from a distance will remain all you've got. |
advanceDNA:We are all social beings and unless you plan to live in caves alone or isolate yourself like Medusa, it's practically impossible to ignore social constructs. Do you know money (the concept of currency) is a social construct? Yet virtually everything we do life is aimed at having it. Marriage is a social construct. Dressing is just a social construct yet Bobrisky is one of the most hated people in Nigeria for cross-dressing. The concept of countries is a social construct yet people move from one country to another when they feel the former isn't working for them. Gender norms are social constructs and it's not any less important than the ones I've mentioned above. Institutionalized social constructs give shape to human existence and it's practically impossible to ignore them as long as we are alive cause that automatically implies social ostracism, the fastest route to suicide. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being girly, that I totally agree with. But unfortunately, life is hell for them. You've never heard? Well, I'm telling you now. A boy who feels better putting on tight trousers, a boy who likes to keep long nails and hair, a boy who can't walk without moving his waist like a lady, etc. is automatically irritating to an average straight man. People hate them for no reason. Regardless of how much self love you claim to have, you can never be happy when you attract hatred from all angles just by existing. It's so easy for you to say cause you've not walked in these people's path. You can disagree with me about self love but if you agree that no one just wakes up and decide to hate himself, then you invariably agree that self love is influenced by external factors. Nevertheless, like I mentioned earlier, transgendering isn't all about self hatred. People change gender to be where they want to be. Government does not encourage or discourage anyone to become trans. Government doesn't just take that freedom away. Freedom is one thing Africans need to appreciate. You may not approve of something but you shouldn't take away that freedom from others cause you don't like it. Do you really worry about the chemical/blade anatomy they go through (that would be very kind of you) or do you just hate transgenders? |
blueAgent:No. |
blueAgent:First, I'm sorry for your ordeal. I can only imagine how much impact that must have had on you as an adult. You see, your personal path of being abused as a kid and possibly getting addicted to se.x at some point in your life doesn't necessarily mirror the life pattern of gay people. As a matter of fact, viewing the gay struggle through the lenses of your personal experience as a non gay person is the reason behind most straight people's dispositions towards the gay community. We unempathetically judge them by heterosexual standards. If you can recall, my question was "how many gay people do you have as close friends or as family members open to you?" Yes, you mentioned you had a gay room mate back in school. But you used the words "unknown" and "unfortunately" and that tells a tale about your experience. Those two words sharply contrast with the ones in bold in my question above. "Unknown" means he wasn't open to you (not surprising seeing how they aren't accepted) and "unfortunately" means it wasn't a good experience and you guys aren't close anymore. Sorry, I fail to see how this would give you an insight into the life a gay person. People open to friends and confidents. To really know about gay community, you'd have to have some of them as friends who confide in you. Otherwise, all you'd get would be assumptions or things said by people in distress. Like I said, gay people aren't people who suffered terrible childhoods. Gay people are found in every environment; within the rich, the poor, the isolated, the socialized, the well-treated, the ill-treated, the blacks, the whites, the religious, the irreligious, the intelligent, the dumb, etc. It is a sexual orientation just like being straight. |
advanceDNA:Good morning from here. Self love/confidence doesn't just come as a personal decision. It is influenced by external factors. Even when we are ugly, our mothers tell is how beautiful we are. When we are good in playing football and our male friends praise us, we will feel good about ourselves. Things like these make us appreciate ourselves as we grow up. A very efiminate kid is told by neighbours that he's different. He's hated and bullied by his fellow kids who don't see him as good enough to share the same space with them. Strangers look at him like an alien when he's passing by. Even adults that should know better mock him. He grows with the idea that he's unwanted/unacceptable. Self confidence lost, self love non existent, he tries to hide himself from the world and he always questions God who made him that way. Sir, you don't just instruct such a person to love himself, not when he'll still be living amongst those who constitute his source of anguish. However, there's a slight difference between self hatred and gender limitations (a thin line actually). While people like the hypothetical kid I described above may want to transition into the opposite gender and move to a new area, I'd like to also mention that a trans person isn't necessarily always someone who suffered self hatred in the actual sense of it. Many experienced gender limitations. A masculine looking girl with zero interest in ladies' stuff who has always dreamed of playing with Toronto raptors or doing other stuff males do may feel limited by her own gender. Such a person may feel useless as lady. On the other hand, some boyish women would never want to transition cause their passion can be pursued even as a lady and I learned (not sure) people are generally more tolerant towards them than towards the effeminate guys. In that case, no limitation/no self hatred. Finally, transgendering isn't tightly coupled with sexuality. This is because not all efiminate guys are gay (but how many women would want to date them?). Yes, many men who transitioned into women date men, but not all. I know a straight guy (or rather, heard she was a man) who transitioned into a lady and now has a girlfriend. So you see, it's not all about se.x. If it were, we wouldn't have trans in Canada cause anybody can have sex with anyone here regardless of the genders. Maybe some of them try to fit into social constructs like you said, and if that saves them from a lifetime of sadness and social ostracism, I wouldn't stand on thier way, brother. |
blueAgent:Trapped in a body is an English expression and regardless of the choice of words you prefer, the fact is that some people are naturally effeminate and feel more comfortable doing girly stuff. I'm sure you know one or two of such people. What you call childish feeling is somebody else's life story. Empathy demands that we try to see things from other people's perspectives and appreciate our differences. You believe some people are born intersex only because it's physical. You are not gay, you don't keep gay friends but somehow you can tell gay people how they were born. Isn't that really convenient? So everybody is born straight? Do you really think life is binary? Black or white, gay or straight, kind or wicked, etc? No, bro, nature is full of in-betweens. Sexuality is a spectrum, some people are gay, some straight and some bisexual. The thing is, you can't understand people you haven't even tried to accommodate. What you know about gay people is born out of sentiments. You were born in a society where being gay is frowned upon. You grew up with that and you'd probably stick to that even in the face of logic. But, at least, let them live. I'm sure that's not too much to ask for. |
blueAgent:First, we have gay animals. So many of them. A little Googling is all you have to do. Yes, humans are either male or female, nobody argued that. Even gay people are either male or female. Sexual orientation doesn't change people's gender. We aren't talking about gender variation but variations in sexual orientation. Nature is known for variation. No aspect of nature (not even day and night) is without variation. So what makes you think it’s possible for more than 6 billion people on earth to be born straight? No, bro, hat's not how nature works. You think gay people have troubled past or you know this for sure? How can you be home and propose theories about people you've refused to even associate with? How many gay people do you have as close friends or family members who are open to you? You see, the problems in Africa is you guys use brute force against anything you aren't used to. You don't associate with gay people, you don't befriend, accommodate or tolerate them but you think you know their history more than those of us in the western world who dine with them, accept them, talk with them and hear their stories? I've been living here all my life, I have childhood friends, school mates, colleagues, clients, etc. who are gay and I'm telling you authoritatively that the majority of gay people had normal childhoods pre puberty. The only thing they suffered was the rejection and self hatred that came after they realized they were different. As for the counselling part, read my response to the guy above. In summary, you aren't really any saner than they are. |
blueAgent:No, no such method worked at any point. Homosexuality is not an illness. It's not something you "cure". The idea that it is a disease is what led to some of the most inhumane acts in the world. Gay people were subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, corrective rape and other gruesome procedures hoping to "cure" what was a mere variation in sexuality. Good these things are banned today. It is sheer discrimination to even suggest these guys are ill just because they're different. It destroys their mental health and makes them suicidal. I'm very certain that was how whites saw blacks in the past. I mean, counselling cannot make you change from being straight to being gay. What makes you it would make a gay person become straight? You see, homosexuality is not just about having sex with same gender. Anyone can do that, even straight guys do that for money these days. Homosexuality is more about the intense emotional connection (aka love) that gay people cannot feel for the opposite gender. In order words, you can be gay without having sex with anyone. Again, stopping sex with the same gender while forcing yourself to sleep with the opposite gender (like closeted married gay men do) doesn't really make you straight. We have gay people who are professorship of Psychiatry and Psychology, doctors, lawyers, engineers, programmers, inventors, etc. If these guys are telling us they aren't sick but just different, what right do we have to insist they are sick just because they are not like us? Why not just let them be? Why are we so afraid of variations? I've read people say "rub it on our faces" and I wonder exactly what that means. You're in your house living your best life. How exactly does a gay man's life rub on your face? We are saying people should stop hurting gay people. Let them live. Let have human rights. And you're saying it's rubbing on your face. How exactly does that work? You are the majority. Heterosexuality is more-or-less the norm. The religions, the media, everything is heterosexual, and gay people have to live with it; they conform even when they can't relate. And then we talk about letting these guys enjoy basic human rights and you're complaining it's being rubbed on your face. How exactly do gay people that constitue a handful of the world's population rub it on the faces of the more than 6 billion straight people out there? You want to them to hide themselves when you pass cause they aren't good enough to be seen? Let's be logical, bro. The western world is not your face, Africa is. And Gay people don't even have enough visibility in Africa. Your movie industries are afraid to tell thier story. Maybe when they do, you'll begin to understand what these guys suffer. Meanwhile, no kid is brainwashed. Kids are taught acceptance/tolerance, something Africa needs even more. |
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