A lot of people get out of control when they are drunk (just ask a buddy of mine who frequents this very board). Their inhibitions go down entirely, and their emotions completely trump their verbal self-control. They act like they are an entirely different person. Not everyone is dangerous when they get drunk like that, but some can be very annoying and make you very uncomfortable when it happens with the degree of unreserved honesty that spews forth from their mouths.

Needless to say, I consider people fully responsible for what they do and/or say when they are drunk. If they know how they act when they get drunk, then they are responsible for whatever those actions are the moment they pick up a bottle and start drinking. If they can't control the urge to drink, then they need to get help. For those who tell you, "If you're not an alcoholic yourself, there is no way you can possibly understand!", I will tell them that regardless of whether or not I can understand what it's like to go through such a trial, I do understand what it's like to deal with them when they get like that, and their inability to control their drinking does not mean anyone should be expected to just overlook such behavior when it happens, especially when it's habitual. This is particularly true considering they frequently apologize for their behavior once they are sober again (and in many instances are probably very sincere at the time they make the apology), and yet do the same thing over and over again whenever they get drunk. If they truly cannot help the urge to go online and start socializing after they get inebriated in addition to not being able to help the urge to drink, then they really need help. I greatly sympathize with what they go through, save for those who truly do not want to stop drinking, and think little of putting people they know through the above routine ad infinitum.

There is another important thing I want to mention and get out in the open, and here is probably as good a time as any to do so. Over the past few years I have seen a disturbing tendency emerge from individuals on the Left to chastise straight people for expressing a great dislike for homosexual advances that they sincerely do not want by calling such individuals "homophobic," and telling them that if they evince repulsion at receiving homosexual advances that must mean they have to be secretly gay themselves but in deep denial of it for personal moral reasons. I have been accused of this very thing by certain friends and colleagues on the Left, which shows just how ridiculous such accusations are: Why would a guy who is not afraid or ashamed of being "out" and honest about being a hebephile in today's world possibly be legitimately accused of being afraid or ashamed to come out as being a teleiophilic homosexual?

Here is the bottom line, people: just as I strongly believed nobody should be judged for who they are attracted to, likewise people should not be judged for who they are not attracted to. We understand that teleiophiles are revolted by our attractions. A heterosexual should have a right to avoid homosexual advances without being hit with any of the above accusations, and this should not be taken as an indication that they have anything against homosexuality on a moral level; it simply means they do not swing in that direction and do not want those advances, nothing more and nothing less.

As I recently told one of those friends of mine who hit me with those B.S. accusations when I said I wouldn't appreciate a homosexual guy hitting on me if he knew I wasn't gay, "If some straight guy began hitting on your little sister, and she didn't like the guy for whatever reason and repeatedly told him that she wanted his advances to cease and desist, would you defend the guy if he started calling your sister a 'man-hater' for refusing his advances, or would you tell the guy to leave her alone because what he is doing constitutes sexual harassment?" I asked him that twice, and he didn't respond either time, but continued to harp about what a homophobe I must be, how I must be a closet homosexual in denial of his deep sexual passion for other men, etc.