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class="Episo_sgle-episo-tle__v3XV_">How to hate your prter a ltle b ls</div></div><div class="Episo_podst-playlist-episo-__X1zSu"><p class="Episo_podst-playlist-episo-scr__4d02U">Des after we were first promised a “paperls office,” nearly half of Amerins still own a prter. But most aren’t happy wh them, and that might be by sign.</p></div><div class="Episo_podst-playlist-episo-date__Agmff">Friday, July 14, 2023</div></div><div><img class="Episo_hi__huBV0" src=" style="m-width:180px" alt="How to hate your prter a ltle b ls"/></div></div><div><div class="Episo_podst-playlist-episo-player__e57gs"><div class="h-sm"><svg aria-labelledby="64b1b5b3c9e77c000a02cd01-aria" role="img" height="32" width="200" viewBox="0 0 250 40" class="db"><tle id="64b1b5b3c9e77c000a02cd01-aria">Loadg...</tle><rect role="prentatn" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" clip-path="url(#64b1b5b3c9e77c000a02cd01-diff)" style="fill:url(#64b1b5b3c9e77c000a02cd01-animated-diff)"></rect><fs><clipPath id="64b1b5b3c9e77c000a02cd01-diff"><rect x="50" y="8" rx="3" ry="3" width="200" height="24"></rect><circle cx="20" cy="20" r="20"></circle></clipPath><learGradient id="64b1b5b3c9e77c000a02cd01-animated-diff"><stop offset="0%" stop-lor="#f0f0f0" stop-opacy="1"><animate attributeName="offset" valu="-2; -2; 1" keyTim="0; 0.25; 1" dur="2s" repeatCount="fe"></animate></stop><stop offset="50%" stop-lor="#e9e9e9" stop-opacy="1"><animate attributeName="offset" valu="-1; -1; 2" keyTim="0; 0.25; 1" dur="2s" repeatCount="fe"></animate></stop><stop offset="100%" stop-lor="#f0f0f0" stop-opacy="1"><animate attributeName="offset" valu="0; 0; 3" keyTim="0; 0.25; 1" dur="2s" repeatCount="fe"></animate></stop></learGradient></fs></svg></div></div></div><div><div><img class="Episo_list-social-image__LbemX Episo_maxWidth__dsJcI false" src=" alt="How to hate your prter a ltle b ls"/><span class="Episo_photo-cred__kKutI">You n stroy prters at smash rooms across the untry. (Moni Rodman/The Washgton Post)</span></div><div class="Episo_episo-scriptn__xjxJk"><p><span style="lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-lor: transparent;">The Washgton Post’s </span><a href=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="lor: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-lor: transparent;">Help Dk</a><span style="lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-lor: transparent;"> is here to discs all thgs prters. Tech lumnist Geofey Fowler rounds up a seri of vtigatns he and his lleagu nducted to most people’s </span><a href=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="lor: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-lor: transparent;">least favore</a><span style="lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-lor: transparent;"> piece of personal tech. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-lor: transparent;">Many people </span><a href=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="lor: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-lor: transparent;">still need to prt</a><span style="lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-lor: transparent;"> shippg labels, school projects, legal documents and medil forms, so prters aren’t gog away anytime soon. 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i a bit gay

Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.

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AM I GAY?

* i a bit gay *

Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr.

Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc. You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

Unsure of your sexual inty? This tt n reveal whether you're gay, bisexual, bi-cur or straight. Try this GAY-O-METER quiz now and fix your 'gaydar'! * i a bit gay *

I me out at a nservative Christian llege the US and was a gay relatnship for around two years wh a basketball player who end up marryg a woman.

AM I GAY, STRAIGHT, BISEXUAL OR ASEXUAL?

Many young men intify as mostly straight — a sexual orientatn that is not que straight but also, they say, ls gay than bisexualy * i a bit gay *

Well, you mt have been gay the whole time, some might thk, and bee of some relig shame, you cid to lie to yourself and experiment wh a girl.

But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup.

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Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to. ” Vios started circulatg on the ter featurg gay people askg straight people “when they chose to be straight. ” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice, ” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy.

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”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns. “Such statements, ” she wr, “fe blogil acunts wh an obligatory and nearly ercive force, suggtg that anyone who scrib homosexual sire as a choice or social nstctn is playg to the hands of the enemy. ” People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backward – even if they are themselv, for example, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The Cy fame.

In a 2012 terview wh New York Tim Magaze, the actrs sually mentned that homosexualy was, for her, a choice. “I unrstand that for many people ’s not, but for me ’s a choice, and you don’t get to fe my gayns for me.

Callg me “idtic” and “patently absurd”, Aravosis wrote, “The gay haters at the relig right uldn’t have wrten any better.

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”Gay rights do not have to hge on a geic explanatn for sexualy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they thk they were born gay.

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Patrick Grzanka, Assistant Profsor of Psychology at Universy of Tennsee, for stance, has shown that some people who believe that homosexualy is nate still hold negative views of gays. In fact, the homophobic and non-homophobic rponnts he studied shared siar levels of belief a Born This Way Samantha Allen not at The Daily Beast, the growg public support for gays and lbians has grown out of proportn wh the rise the number of people who believe homosexualy is fixed at birth; would be unlikely that this small change opn uld expla the spike support for gay marriage, for stance.

Instead, she suggts hg on the fact that far more people are now personally acquated wh someone who is gay. In 1985, only 24% of Amerin rponnts said they had a gay iend, relative or -worker —  2013, that number was at 75%.

“It don’t seem to matter as much whether or not people believe that gay people are born that way as do that they simply know someone who is currently gay, ” Allen spe of the studi, those who ph agast Born This Way narrativ have been heavily cricised by gay activists. Siarly, Ward has received her own hatemail for phg agast the lg LGB narrativ, wh some gays tellg her she’s “worse than Ann Coulter, ” the ntroversial US thor of books like If Democrats Had Any Bras, They’d Be Republins.

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And when I published my say on choosg to be gay, an irate Amerin lbian activist wrote me that had “jt been nfirmed” to her that my wrg was “directly rponsible for four gay aths Rsia.

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There is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejectedLet’s first be clear that whatever the origs of our sexual orientatn, there is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejected.

The efforts are potentially harmful, acrdg to the APA, “bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay and bisexual youth is a mental illns of disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure. — but bee they’re qutn of what leads to homosexualy the first place, however, is obscure, even to the experts. The APA, for example, while notg that most people experience ltle to no choice over their orientatns, says this of homosexualy’s origs:“Although much rearch has examed the possible geic, hormonal, velopmental, social and cultural fluenc on sexual orientatn, no fdgs have emerged that perm scientists to nclu that sexual orientatn is termed by any particular factor or factors.

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”Siarly, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn wr a 2013 statement that while the of heterosexualy and homosexualy are currently unknown, they are likely “multifactorial cludg blogil and behavral roots which may vary between different dividuals and may even vary over time.

”Te, var eye-grabbg headl over the years have claimed that some scientists have found somethg like The Gay Gene. ” Acrdg to LeVay’s rearch, a specific part of the bra, the third terstial nucls of the anterr hypothalam (INAH-3), is smaller homosexual men than is heterosexual as they might, scientists have stggled to inty any particular gen that nsistently predict the directns of our love and sire (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)Read moreYou n spot the problem wh this study a e away: were the gay bras LeVay studied born that way, or did they bee that way?

Another landmark paper on the origs of homosexualy was published 1993 by a geicist named Dean Hamer, who was terted to learn whether homosexualy uld be hered.

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Begng om his observatn that there are more gay relativ on a mother’s si than a father’s, Hamer turned his attentn to the X chromosome (which is passed on by the mother).

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”A 2015 study sought to nfirm Hamer’s fdgs, this time wh a much larger sample: 409 pairs of gay brothers.

”And as Allen pots out, there have also been studi that found no “X-lked gene unrlyg male homosexualy.

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