For the love of god, could people stop saying you're "admitting your gay" ITS NOT A CRIME ITS NOT A BAD THING YOU AREN'T ADMITTING ANYTHING YOUR COMING OUT fjasfiodsnmaovnciodsnafiodsnaofdiosna i'm just angry right now for alot of reasons, but i figured that should be put out there it really ticks me off
i think you are misinterpreting the connotations of admittance here :S In understanding who you are, there is likely to have been a stage of denial, and the english antonym of denial, is admittance. It's not suggesting anything negative. It's about the acknowledgement and acceptance of your own feelings. admittance is personal, coming out is when you start letting people know you're ok with yourself
In this context admit means To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge. As someone who has lived in the closet for a long time it was a very big and important step to admit I am gay. All it means is that I acknowledged these feelings, find them to be true and no longer make excuses as to why I have them. My life changed the day I said to myself I am gay. It was an admission, not of guilt, but of who I am.
Well, since "coming out" means absolutely nothing to a person who doesn't know the idiom, I think "admittance" is a great term.
I think admitting, is when you ADMITTE. NOT when you go tell them by your own will you're gay. When you ADMITE is when you tell yourself "Ok, I'm gay" OR Some one asks you "you are gay right?" if you say yes, you admitted it u_u
You don't ADMITTE anything. But you do admit things. And now to contribute to the actual topic... I've never thought of admitting to being gay at all similar to admitting to a crime or anything like that. It's similar to the way we admit that we actually like to watch The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, or eat peanut butter straight from the jar when we're home alone. And that's not a good comparison either, because that insinuates that being gay is something to be ashamed of like watching kiddie Disney shows or eating gross amounts of food. (I watch stupid Disney shows when I see them on, but I don't eat peanut butter straight from the jar)
Having a dedication to grammar and spelling =/= a desire to eliminate inferior minorities, but thanks anyway.
Actually I don't think you are too far off the mark there. We all have shows we watch we don't want people to know about. Mine is South of Nowhere. We all have secret food habits too. I'm a single male, so everyone is better off if they don't know. When you are in the closet, your sexuality is another one of your traits you are hiding from the world. So watching a drama aimed at teenagers or the fact I think drink straight out of the Brita picture, those really aren't bad things to hide about your self. Our sexuality is just another thing we hide, and it is a bad thing to hide. Ultimately we hide these things because we are ashamed of them and afraid of how others will react. When we admit to our sexuality we start down the path of no longer being ashamed of it and start the journey of becoming a whole person.
