I Choo-Choo-Choose Me!

(to the tune of "The Way I Am" - Eminem)

Whatever I want

Hey, this'll be fun

Aiyyo turn my height up a little bit

Aiyyo.... this post is for anyone... fuck it

Just shut up and listen. Read. Just shut up and read.

I looked back and I planned all the stuff I will be

How my hair how my eyes how my waistline will be

And I planned to be tall and I planned to smart

And since birth I've been blessed with this wait did I just say bless?

And I chose how I'd be and so did you as did he

Just like she chose that she'd have to sit down to pee

All this tension from the homophobic ones

Trying to tell everyone else who to love, how they're meant to be

Boys with girls only (girls only)....

But they lack common decency

To leave others be, they're not freaks they're just like you and me

They did not chose to be (chose to be)....

A minority and no,

They don't owe you a fucking apology

They' don't all like N'Sync, they don't care what you n your friends think

If you think they chose gay let me ask you (let me ask you)...

Were you older than eight when you chose to be straight?

Oh wait you didn't choose to be straight? (to be straight?)... so wait then

If you didn't choose straight you must be born straight (logic!)

So if you were born straight, they must be born gay

Your argument is dead, your logic also dead

I'm tired of all them (of all them)...

Saying it's a choice it's clearly not a choice so shut up now

[Chorus:]

And we're born to be whatever we'll be

If we weren't, we'd all have a choice, you see

But the only ones who did, apparently

Chose to be a minority

And we're born to be whatever we'll be

If we weren't, we'd all have a choice, you see

But the only ones, who did, apparently

Chose to be a minority

I was recently involved in a conversation with someone who used the term "sexual preference". As the son of two dads, this term irks me. I spoke out, and explained that "preference" would denote a conscious choice of sexuality, and that "orientation" was a better term. The person said she thought it should be preference, since it was their choice. I twitched, and asked her when she had chosen to be straight. She said she hadn't. I nodded.

Sadly, I'm not sure my point got across...

I was relaying that conversation to a friend (and reader), who laughed. I said that I didn't know what was funny, since I had clearly chosen to be tall, blond, and chubby. Said friend offered this quote for this post:

"Yeah, because god knows (pun intended) I chose to be short, need glasses, and weigh 130lbs soaking wet..." - Marc T.

I don't get the people that still think it's a conscious choice. My dad didn't chose to be gay - hell, he fought it for 45 years, marrying my mother and fathering a son. But at the end of the day, as much as he tried to choose to be straight, he is what he is, the way he was born.

Sadly, though, I must apply this logic across the board: The people that still think it's a choice didn't choose to be ignorant. They were just born that way. And there's nothing the rest of us logic folks can do about it but place our palms directly into the center of our foreheads and sigh.

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