Gay men: Has mom or dad ever tried 2 match u up with a man?

[thewiz]

My mom and dad never tried to set me up with girls when I was in the closet and both had died by the time I came out.

It was a little awkward at my son's wedding when all his frat brothers and girls he knew at college began making lists of people they knew who they could "hook me up with" when I visited my son and his wife in Grand Rapids! lol! A couple of them attended the wedding and other events and I might have been tempted had I not just met my hubby!

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

I don't let my parents that far into my life, so no, and i'm sure if anyone(my mother) tried, they'd get it completely wrong.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

^He thinks all his polls "prove" something.

 

[Ninja108]

Nope, they let me date on my own before I found my bf.

 

[FanofFiction]

My Mom would definitely try to set me up, but when I came out to her I was already seeing someone. She loves that I'm gay. Her and my husband are weirdly tight. They are a sight together; my Mom is really masculine whereas my husband is certainly not.

 

[wonderwort]

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[wonderwort]

No, my parents haven't tried setting me up with anyone.

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I wouldn't really read too much into this poll as it wasn't scientific.



I like your sense of humor.

43 people is not really much to go on.

^He thinks all his polls "prove" something.

Okay.......this poll isn't scientific...

But hay.....why don't we do a ten year scientific poll, costing millions to prove that : As a whole, parents of straight children are more comfortable with their children's sexuality.......................than compared to parents of homosexual children.(as a whole)

 

[wonderwort]

Ha, are you one of those people that need multimillion dollar studies to prove the obvious? I think Larry's theory can be taken seriously based on the existence of homophobia alone. If gay people face a homophobia that straight people do not, it makes sense that we'd be hooked up less. I'd believe that if the poll was taken by twice as many people and said the opposite.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[Native Son]

Parents of straight children try to match their children with potential boyfriends or girlfriends all the time.

I'm wondering if anybody out there been lucky enough to have a mom or dad that is so accepting they would try and match you up with a man.

That's lucky? I don't think so!

I'd be like, "Mind your own goddamn fucking business, motherfuckers!" And they'd be all like, "Oh, we're so sorry." And I'd be all like: "Next!"

But, if he were really 'cute'.... "I''d be all like "Hey cuz (cuz can = mom or dad or both mom and dad) even though we live in a Glendale hovel and you smell of grease, you're still number one, bitch or bitches! Woot!

And then I would get really serious...

 

[altlover85]

Ha, are you one of those people that need multimillion dollar studies to prove the obvious? I think Larry's theory can be taken seriously based on the existence of homophobia alone. If gay people face a homophobia that straight people do not, it makes sense that we'd be hooked up less. I'd believe that if the poll was taken by twice as many people and said the opposite.

I just think that drawing conclusions from a relatively small sample of people without any random sampling does not a definitive conclusion make.

Now I don't really care enough about the issue at hand to have millions paid for a study, but I did think it was a little premature to make a definitive conclusion based on some internet poll on a forum, even if I myself think that gay kids are less likely to be fixed up by their parents as compared to straight kids.

There are plenty of studies that I think don't need to be done and this is one of them.

 

[altlover85]

I don't think he made the conclusion based on this. The conclusion was made based on common sense and his polling (though modest) backed up what he already suspected.

This is the same type of study that if ever done scientifically and posted in a thread here would yield replies like "They really had to spend money to know this?," "DUHHHHHH!," etc.

I just think the results might be a bit skewed since it's not random and the sample size is small.

To say that parents match up their gay parents "much less" seems a little overdramatic and not based off of anything much.

 

[altlover85]

^I think it's based off the mere existence of homophobia which is a pretty huge and powerful thing, bro.

How many gay folks do you know whose parents claim to accept them but "won't talk about" their sexuality. That's a problem virtually nonexistent amongst heterosexuals.

I guess my issue is with the words "much less" which would seem to be indicative of an amount and I think it's hard to really be able to quantify the difference if the study isn't random and doesn't have a large sample size.