Ailith430 wrote...
Like I said earlier, pick three words to describe a particular character's personality, and "straight" or "gay" would never be among them, because a persons sexuality isnto a character trait.
If you had to picl three words to describe yourself as a person, would you include your sexual preference? No, because it's not what defines you.
It will depend largely on the context, actually. With heterosexuality being the widely spread default people rarely feel the need to clarify this point outright. But consider number of people who do feel the need to specify their ******- or bisexuality from the onset -- apparently they do consider it important enough aspect of what kind of person they are.
Also, if you're limited just to three words then you're hardly going to describe yourself as an actual individual rather than just generic collection of three traits. For example, it's unlikely you'll choose to mention whether you're a cat person or a dog person. And yet people with preference towards either can have quite different mindsets and value different traits, making them very different individuals. This applies to other aspects of our personalities, like taste in music, our preference (or distaste) for danger, whether we're reckless or planning, lazy or not, optimists or pessimists, atheists or not and many, many other factors. But you wouldn't claim that none of these things describe you as a character in some way, would you?
Modifié par tmp7704, 19 février 2010 - 10:19 .