He’s been listening to too much Sting:

I was thinking the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica.

“You know, people, good people, smart people have been telling you for years, well decades even, about how the intelligence services are running this country. Well, they’ve run it into the ground, the ground on which I’m standing, you’re standing, they’ve run it and they’ve ruined it and now that I’m here to take back…

Absolutely. But the non-sexual parts of the relationship are not described by terms like “heterosexual”. There are gay couples who share almost all the non-sexual aspects of their relationship with straight couples, and there are straight couples whose non-sexual relationship is totally different from other straight…

Absolutely, but I would never conflate “gay” and “queer”. I have a gay brother who is self-declaredly not queer. I was actually just discussing with some folks yesterday that the push for “heteronormative bullshit” in the form of the gay marriage movement is one of the most suprising social developments of the last 20…

My whole point is that terms like “heterosexual” or “homosexual” do, remarkably, describe sexual preference and not other parts of a person’s personality.

Preferring to spend a life with Jane because she is X, Y and Z doesn’t make you straight. It makes you someone who loves Jane.

Oh jeez. I used “<insert sexual preference term>“ here precisely to avoid this sort of observation.

I wasn’t really trying to define why you would choose a particular partner. I was talking about why you might define yourself as straight (or gay or ....).

At no time did I advocate or do I ever in my actual life introduce people as “homosexual” or with any other adjectival term related to their sexuality.

I am not interested in other’s people’s sex lives. And I am also not advocating providing more information to children than they want or are ready for or both.

My point is almost the opposite of what you think I’m saying. I’m arguing that we should specifically acknowledge the inherent sex-defined status of being heterosexual more, not less. I’m not saying that “being gay is about sex and being straight is about being normal”. I’m saying “being <sexual preference description>…

I’m not denying either the gender or sexual preference “clouds”. I frequently advocate for that view of things.

I think in that particular case, you’re right. And that’s the case Cannon was discussing, it appears. But the OP seemed to me to be broadening the question, and then I think you broadened it again when you said:

What part of <insert sexual preference term here> is not about sexual preference? I’m a heterosexual male because I want to have sex with women. As a side effect, or as a preamble, I tend to fall in love with them, but that doesn’t rule out intense bonds being formed with other men. A homosexual male is someone who…

I used a proxy in the UK for the London games to watch BBC coverage. It was insane how much more enjoyable the coverage was. No inane chitchat, no need to constantly tell “human interest” stories. The silence (or rather, ambient noise) from the natatorium between the swim events remains one of my favorite memories…

One of my daughter’s was proposed too just a month or so ago, and her fiance came over to ask for permission. Polish-American family on his side, the tradition runs deep.

If you read a statement by someone (e.g. “Trump is a terrible speaker”), but you have no further information, then I think you probably should stop right there when it comes to trying to explain why you think the statement’s author feels as they do.

No, no, I was just referencing back to your (excellent) list.

The nuance would come from noticing that, in the absence of specific adjectives (such as those you mentioned), it is hard to judge the reason for a negative assessment. And if a conclusion is going to be lept to, then it should be accompanied by an explicit explanation of why.