First day on myfitnesspal today! Lesbian friendly?

Welcome and much success to you. The last time I checked, calories are truly neutral equal opportunity offenders.

Lesbian friendly!?! Really? Why do you automatically assume that people are going to discriminate against you? This is a weight loss and fitness forum,why would anyone even care about your gayness, anyways? Why even mention it?

You obviously haven't seen the pure hatred towards gays and lesbians that has appeared on this forum. It was a big thing a while back. Very vile things.

This. There was a huge thread about bashing gay people. It was ridiculous, but I got most of my friends from that thread because we were all bashing the homophobes together

I ♥ all of my lesbian friends on here!

I'm a sistah too... glad to know ya!

Lesbian friendly!?! Really? Why do you automatically assume that people are going to discriminate against you? This is a weight loss and fitness forum,why would anyone even care about your gayness, anyways? Why even mention it?

You obviously haven't seen the pure hatred towards gays and lesbians that has appeared on this forum. It was a big thing a while back. Very vile things.

This. There was a huge thread about bashing gay people. It was ridiculous, but I got most of my friends from that thread because we were all bashing the homophobes together

I ♥ all of my lesbian friends on here!

I'm really glad I missed that particular thread. Ick.

WELCOME!!!:flowerforyou:

Feel free to add me! Im not gay, but I really dont think it matters either way, the important thing is your choice to be healthy!

Welcome we are all here to lose weight or to get healthier.

Just checked my fitness textbook and yup it doesn't say a thing about lesbians in it. Strange cause when I think of fitness or nutrition the first (last) thing that pops into mind is sexual orientation....

Btw, had you not said whether you are gay, lesbian or straight do you think anyone would have cared? I think by proclaiming your sexual orientation you simply bring unnecessary and may I say >completely< irrelevant attention to yourself.

I'm sure me and 99% of the people on here are here for fitness and nutritional purposes. I know that the people I support in my little network of friends, I have no interest in what their sexual orientation is, I only care what their fitness goals are and help them in my own little way by encouraging them along.

Eh, You shouldn't have told your sexuality to everyone. Keep it a secret, or you'll get discriminated
-Straight Guy

Just checked my fitness textbook and yup it doesn't say a thing about lesbians in it. Strange cause when I think of fitness or nutrition the first (last) thing that pops into mind is sexual orientation....

Btw, had you not said whether you are gay, lesbian or straight do you think anyone would have cared? I think by proclaiming your sexual orientation you simply bring unnecessary and may I say >completely< irrelevant attention to yourself.

Do you say that to the straights who proclaim they are married or have boyfriends/girlfriends?

I did read, and I think you didn't read what I wrote. It's completely irrelevant to me and I bet a lot of other people on here what peoples sexual orientation is. I am here for one purpose only, and that is to better myself.

Just checked my fitness textbook and yup it doesn't say a thing about lesbians in it. Strange cause when I think of fitness or nutrition the first (last) thing that pops into mind is sexual orientation....

Btw, had you not said whether you are gay, lesbian or straight do you think anyone would have cared? I think by proclaiming your sexual orientation you simply bring unnecessary and may I say >completely< irrelevant attention to yourself.

Did you not read the thread? Several reasons why a person might want to volunteer that information. How much would it suck to have a bunch of people send you a friend request, and then you mention your partner in a status update and get hate from homophobes? And how many people on here talk about their heterosexual relationships? So non-hetero people should just keep their mouths shut, but heteros can flap their gums about their sexuality all they like? That doesn't make sense.

I did read, and I think you didn't read what I wrote. It's completely irrelevant to me and I bet a lot of other people on here what peoples sexual orientation is. I am here for one purpose only, and that is to better myself.

I did read what you wrote. And I'm simply answering your question as to why she would mention it.

It's completely irrelevant to me. And nobody here proclaimed they have any kind of partner or is married they stated that they are of a certain sexual orientation.

Just checked my fitness textbook and yup it doesn't say a thing about lesbians in it. Strange cause when I think of fitness or nutrition the first (last) thing that pops into mind is sexual orientation....

Btw, had you not said whether you are gay, lesbian or straight do you think anyone would have cared? I think by proclaiming your sexual orientation you simply bring unnecessary and may I say >completely< irrelevant attention to yourself.

Do you say that to the straights who proclaim they are married or have boyfriends/girlfriends?

It's completely irrelevant to me. And nobody here proclaimed they have any kind of partner or is married they stated that they are of a certain sexual orientation.

Just checked my fitness textbook and yup it doesn't say a thing about lesbians in it. Strange cause when I think of fitness or nutrition the first (last) thing that pops into mind is sexual orientation....

Btw, had you not said whether you are gay, lesbian or straight do you think anyone would have cared? I think by proclaiming your sexual orientation you simply bring unnecessary and may I say >completely< irrelevant attention to yourself.

Do you say that to the straights who proclaim they are married or have boyfriends/girlfriends?

It's good that it's irrelevant to you. But it's very relevant to many people. It's clearly relevant to her. So she mentioned it in hopes that she would find some people who can support her the way she needs to be supported. It's no different from a vegan asking for vegan friends, or a woman asking for female friends, or a stay-at-home mom asking for other stay-at-home mom friends. It's good to have commonalities with your support circle.

Lesbian friendly!?! Really? Why do you automatically assume that people are going to discriminate against you? This is a weight loss and fitness forum,why would anyone even care about your gayness, anyways? Why even mention it?

You obviously haven't seen the pure hatred towards gays and lesbians that has appeared on this forum. It was a big thing a while back. Very vile things.

WAAAAHH!:sad:
I see tons of hateful **** on these forums directed at every possible lifestyle, personality, gender, and size! I'm a low carber, myself and I can promise you that NO ONE is hated on here more than low carbers! Is MFP low carb friendly?????????

you should see the gastric bypass haters....they can freeze you out on a hot july morning.

But OP, welcome and good luck on your journey, feel free to add me should you wish to.

Lauren

Well have to agree to disagree. The way the original post is worded is not simply looking for friends with similar interests, it is worded in such a way that presupposes that discrimination will occur. Now I'm not going to argue the psychology behind this whole thing, cause basically I've reached the peak of my interest here.

Good day and peace out

It's completely irrelevant to me. And nobody here proclaimed they have any kind of partner or is married they stated that they are of a certain sexual orientation.

Just checked my fitness textbook and yup it doesn't say a thing about lesbians in it. Strange cause when I think of fitness or nutrition the first (last) thing that pops into mind is sexual orientation....

Btw, had you not said whether you are gay, lesbian or straight do you think anyone would have cared? I think by proclaiming your sexual orientation you simply bring unnecessary and may I say >completely< irrelevant attention to yourself.

Do you say that to the straights who proclaim they are married or have boyfriends/girlfriends?

It's good that it's irrelevant to you. But it's very relevant to many people. It's clearly relevant to her. So she mentioned it in hopes that she would find some people who can support her the way she needs to be supported. It's no different from a vegan asking for vegan friends, or a woman asking for female friends, or a stay-at-home mom asking for other stay-at-home mom friends. It's good to have commonalities with your support circle.