Why you love/hate your country?

[-Skykanden-]

Ok so this is a topic to talk about the country in which you live, maybe its not as everyone thinks that it is so I would like to let us know about it, you would say wikipedia knows it, but well right now I would like to see what people thinks. (don't make it too long )

Spain:
Well I like spain because of weather and people, we have nice warm weather maybe too warm in the south but in Catalonia where I live its ok.
Lot of people think that Spanish are like Mexicans and I don't really know that man, I mean just the language but the food and culture is really different.
Spain has made some errors in history and started going down and down when the great imperium fell, we are not as rich as the other EU countries (excepting portugal, greece and italy)but we don't have any problems so its ok living there.
I invite you to come to the mediterranean side I live in Barcelona so if you are thinking of comig please make me know about it.

[Ragnaros]

damn! was just thinking about such a thread to start! two different people got the same idea at one time nice

so...

Russian Federation:
well, at first i wanted to say some words about the country it was before (USSR, right)
all at all i hate USSR cause it ruined so much lifes... I was born in 1992, it crushed in 1991 so im a lucky guy I think

Actually, I can say that the USSR is still here – most of the CIS authorities came directly from its “Communist” Party or other institutions (for example, Putin came from its secret ‘state security’). The problem is that the CIS countries maintained many of the negative things I listed while loosing completely the positive things.

The USSR had a pseudo-communist totalitarian regime that would get harsher or softer from one state secretary to another.

The positive things about it:
1. It used to build and developed a lot of industries in all of its regions
2. It used to build roads and maintain them
3. It provided people with free education and medical services
4. It used to build a lot of houses and provided people with apartments
5. It supported professional unions and institutions working in the fields of sports, arts and education, as well as science
6. It had effective policies supporting different regions with qualified personnel

Negative things:
1. Any individual could be persecuted, imprisoned and killed by the regime without any reasons - all kinds of grave crimes could lead to many years of imprisonment, but those who disagreed with the regime or were merely suspected in this, would die in prisons or get executed in 90% of cases [through systematic repressions]
2. The USSR's state apparatus was absolutely incomparable in its bureaucracy and corruption
3. The people living in the USSR got used to the fact that the state should decide everything for them and now that's a century old tradition that the people of the exUSSR - their descendants - don't even dare to struggle for their rights and for transparency of their governments
4. The USSR was not governed by middle-age Caucasian males with higher education - which is unfortunately a common thing about many of the today's countries - it was governed by a series of semi-educated weezers in their 60-80. Also, although they assigned persons representing local ethnic majorities to govern the republics of the USSR, there was always an 'adviser' from Moscow who actually made all significant decisions
5. The main industrial priority of the USSR was all kinds of arms, it was constantly in the state of war, in most cases with its own republics the people of which did not want to be a part of it
6. Any individual was considered a replaceable (and removable) part of the USSR's mechanism - the Party never cared about the lives and well-being of an individual or a group
7. The USSR was effectively spreading the xenophobic ideology based on the idea of supremacy of the USSR people and paranoiac fear of foreign intervention in its internal affairs
8. The people were banned from leaving the USSR because of the 'iron curtain'
9. The regime openly discriminated believers representing all confessions and some ethnic minorities (for example, ethnic Jews, Gypsies/Roma)

Similar regimes: North Korea, China, Cambodia, Cuba, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus

So yep, I dont like the country where I live right now, I dont like Russian government but I LOVE russian people for their extraordinarity and my native city, Moscow, for its mix of european & american style of life.

ps: I truly hate people who still think that Stalin was the "father of nations" (or any other soviet leader) and that he has done only GEWD things... this is awful especially when your grandma of grandpa think so...

[jrgp]

USA

sucks because
-everyone's hellbent on politically correctness
-weird copyright laws
-s**tty drug laws
-government corruption
-partyvans
- v&

I'm moving to Europe as soon as I can.

[MattH]

USA

sucks because
-everyone's hellbent on politically correctness
-weird copyright laws
-s**tty drug laws
-government corruption
-partyvans
- v&

I'm moving to Europe as soon as I can.

I'm mostly with him 

And if I ever travel to Spain it would be to play at stirling airsoft http://stirlingairsoft.com/ (look it up its crazy)

[croat1gamer]

Croatia:

Sucks because
- Well, if a person who is going to go for presidentship says that the independent State of Croatia, aka a Nazi satellite country was a good country, and there are many people who support him, should say enough
-S**tty drug laws (2 years for owning drugs, 1 year for killing a person, LOL)
- Government corruption
- National tolerance is just in small bits

Wins because:
- There are copyright laws, and actually noone cares (more/less)
- Well, there isnt anything else worth mentioning.


Moving to a Nordic country when i can.

[PQ]

The Netherlands:

I love it because:
Most people in the cities are open minded and are chill.
It has a good health care system.
There are barely any annoying homeless/drug-addicts.
The crime rate is very low.
You can just say that you do not believe in god and you are able to belief anything you want (in most places). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVc2ymSfGOU

I hate it because:
People in villages think to know everything about what's happening in the cities and are very closed minded.


Not going to leave, these closed minded people won't scare me away. Will fight to get religion out of education. (every religion) I think you should know what religions are about, but it's incorrect to have a Christian/Islam/Buddhist school.

[p0ppin]

USA

Hate the people who milk the system for all it's worth, just makes life shittier for the people who really do need help.
Hate the people who take what they have for granted, the "lower class" of our country that happen to be 300+ lbs... obviously don't know what real poverty is, but won't miss an opportunity to bitch about their situation.  Eat less, save more you lardbag.

[Twistkill]

Canada

It's more awesomer.

[Eagles_Arrows]

Newspeak will be the new predominant language of the U.S.

[Snow]

Canada

I really love my country for the freedom I have and that it is huge. Too see all of Canada intimately would take many lifetimes, it's that awesome. There are places here which are such beautiful natural wonders, they would put any national geographic picture to shame. (Why national geographic hasn't been up to some of those areas yet.. I can't tell you, but they are missing out.) The nature in this country is so diverse from boreal forests to prairie to desert to tundra.The winters can be hard but incredible as well. I've experienced nights which would be out of fairy tale books - like being in an open field with the northern lights dancing like crazy above you while wolves roam on the horizon or a dance on ice that starts up out of the blue with people skating or dancing around with lanterns. We also have a province so flat, that if you can see your relatives coming down the road to visit you, you have 2 weeks before they arrive.

Despite that there is still some discrimination present within our society, one can live their life and lifestyle without fear of persecution or prosecution. I'm openly bi and happy. We're very proud of our multiculturalism - but most of us do not appreciate foreigners who come to Canada that do not bother learning the English language or worse - not wanting to work and just expecting handouts. We're a nice country and will help you out, but if you come here you should at least participate in society. We have a good healthcare system. Besides the farming industy, our industries are strong and make us one of the global leaders in the world economy.

What I don't like is our flawed political system. Yes, it's a democracy, but it's not proportional. In this country 25% of Canadians support the Green Party (a liberal party with a good agenda), yet they do not have one seat in parliament. In each riding it's whoever the majority votes for, but in a lot of ridings the vote is split between two candidates - one winning by 51%. So, the other 49% don't get represented by anyone. Most Canadians are also not very tuned into politics as they should be. So many elected politicians here do not keep any promise - yet they are in office for years. In my province of Alberta, the oilsands keep on polluting and the oil companies in Canada are like vicious wild dogs running rampant. The government keeps supporting them and also any other large industry. Farming is one industry that has unfortunately suffered from our stupid governments. Rather than supporting small farmers - who would raise happy range (free running outdoor) animals, only large factory farms are really supported. If you can use machines to raise thousands of pigs in a windowless climate controlled barn - feeding them hormones and medicated feed, you can ask for any amount to help you out. Grain farming is worse. Grain is worth a lot of money if you look at how much it takes to make a loaf of bread. Grain growers get less for their product than all the money it took to grow it, so it's a fading industry. Many years ago, the Canadian prairies boasted that we could grow enough grain to feed the world. That was true at the time too, it was possible. Now it's a joke.

Anyway, we'll welcome you Americans that don't want to live in the US anymore. We like you (plus our culture and society is based on US anyway). It may take you a bit to get used to longer winters, but it's so worth it living here. Fresh air and freedom. Mmmm.

[iDante]

The US of A sucks because of people like Glenn Beck, Michael Moore, and Rush Limbaugh. People who are so sure of themselves and how right they are that they forget the actual purpose of democracy.

[MattH]

The US of A sucks because of people like Glenn Beck, Michael Moore, and Rush Limbaugh. People who are so sure of themselves and how right they are that they forget the actual purpose of democracy.

Might I add that America is a republic not a democracy?

[pavliko]

Israel:
A country with many diffrent cultures & religions.
Most of the negative sides are..
1.Climate
2.Horrible Israeli people(marrocans,arabs & african) that act like dicks to europeans and asians.
3.Small country that cannot do anything without sucking all other country dicks and surrounded by arab nations.
4.If you want to live a happy life here or to survive you have to not give a s**t about the country.
5.Messed up cultures.
The positive sides are:
1.There are 2 mil russians here (I went to a private russian school to stay away from everybody else)
2.You can study on some nice high courses for little price.
3.When you live here you notice that you live in a s**tty country and want to move to europe to live a nice & goody life ^___^
Hmm also lived in russia, i have nothing to say because i lived far away in sibir and it was nice.

[Psycho]

Norway:

Supposedly it's ranked the best country to live in, don't know exactly why.

I think the pay is pretty good. I am at the bottom of the payroll ladder, just working as a cashier in a store and I'm making over 21$ an hour.

Negative sides are the winters are long and cold. Norway is a stretchy country so there is a bit difference between the northern and southern parts of it, and I live way up north. Gonna move south soon.

I think Norway is a bit too strict on things like the alcohol policy. Its pretty expensive to buy, and the government controls all liqour sales.
Taxes are also kind of high, but we get (almost) free health care so I don't know.

[Catatonic`]

The US of A sucks because of people like Glenn Beck, Michael Moore, and Rush Limbaugh. People who are so sure of themselves and how right they are that they forget the actual purpose of democracy.

Might I add that America is a republic not a democracy?

..what? the US is a democracy, just with a few twists.

~ jrgp

[iDante]

Might I add that America is a republic not a democracy?

..what? the US is a democracy, just with a few twists.

~ jrgp

Nah MattH is correct. A true democracy means every single person votes on every single subject. Very inefficient, so we've got this whole system of checks and balances to keep our republic "democratic."

[GSx_Major]

Sweden... Great place to live in, and I very much love Stockholm.

Unfortunately the country is taking a turn towards the undemocratic right (lisbon treaty violating our constitution, for example), and gee, as we move away from a more socialist attitude, shit goes to hell. Drug laws are also a bit on the rough side, but the general ignorance regarding the topic is worse. On the plus side, health care, education, etc, is top notch and still essentially free.

[Ragnaros]

anybody Australian here? always wanted to live there

[Mitak]

Burglaria. Bulgaria. Don't like it and I don't wanna make a fake impression by saying it's a great country, because right now it's not...
Look, it was from VIIth century until like XIIIth, while we were spanking Byzantia, but after that, 500 years of Ottoman slavery and another 100 of Russian slavery (still continues) + a breach from the western civilization and USA trend & carreer wannabes... It's really really mouth-to-mouth shit swap here.

Macedonians deny they're actually bulgarians, oppressed by serbian shovinism. A group of bulgarians claim they're turkish because they're muslim... while they're actually only descendants of the forcedly islamised bulgarians.

There's no future for a young person here. Smart and lucky ones move to continue their studies in England, Germany, France. I'm aiming a little more to the north.

There was a saying "the bulgarian doesn't have money for bread, yet he saves for a mercedes". That's what it's like right now.

I'm not even going to honor politicians, because we all know what they're like.
Don't take what I'm saying for too correct, I'm not really socially or historically confident.

[a-4-year-old]

Newspeak will be the new predominant language of the U.S.

We have always been at war with eurasia.

I love the US. Its New Jersey I hate.
Ridiculous laws passed.
Dirty as hell.
All the cool states don't like us.

[Liber Lupus]

Estonia

Small country in Northern-Europe (if you want to be political then Eastern-Europe). It used to be a former Soviet state, but gained independence in 1991.

Good things:
*Free healthcare for the most part, but private is also available for those who want it.
*Wireless internet is available in malls/cafe's/businesses/etc, even in small villages, usually for free.
*Online voting at parlament/EU elections, paying all the bills you can think of online and some other convenient internet services. Really missed some of those when I lived in Ireland.
*High education levels compared to other EU countries.
*We're the most non-religious country in the EU, which IMO, is a good thing. I guess after being ruled by several different nations for 700 years can destroy anyone's belief in higher existance and brings you back to reality.
*Even though there are copyright laws, most ISP's don't really care what and how much you download. No bandwith limits here. I download hundreds of GB's a month and I've never been bothered.

Bad things:
*Too many f-ing lowly educated brainwashed slavic immigrants who, for the most part, were brought here during the Soviet occupation. They complain how we're discriminating them, yet we never hear anything bad from other nationalities that live here. No matter how much they don't like it here, they won't return home either. Most of them still see wet dreams of us being part of Russia and establishing Russian as a second language and thus, they won't learn our language either. And then complain that they can't get decent paying jobs. OH I WONDER WHY.
*Wages are kinda low compared to the prices.
*Courts and laws are a big joke. There are tons of examples, but if you want to murder someone, I suggest you head over here. There's a pretty high chance you can blame it on the victim that he was provoking you and you'll get away with just parole, without really serving any time in an actual prison. Self defence on the other hand can get you locked up for a long time, might as well let the attackers kill you.

All in all though...it's not that bad. I feel as we have it way better than any other ex-soviet country. I know most of my mates will probably stay here, but I'm planning to continue my studies in the UK in about a year or so. Maybe live in the US for a while to see what it's like (no f-ing way I'd go there before I'm 21 though. I couldn't bare the thought that I couldn't buy alcohol again) and then settle down in either Norway or Sweden. Don't exactly know why, but 's something I like about both of them.

[zakath]

Sweden
+ Free Healthcare
+ Social security(you never have to starve live on the street etc)
+ Free Education
+ Very Free country
- Taxed to death(currently paying in the range of 70 % of my salaries) and on top of that its VAT of 25 % on everything you buy + special taxes on stuff like alcohol, gas and much more stuff.
- something in sweden called "jantelagen" which essentially mean you shouldn't strive to become someone and being rich or succesful in business is frown upon, however if you get rich by being good in sports or winning the lottery its totally ok so quite a double standard.
- Cold weather, however I live around the arctic circle so probably have to blame myself for that.

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

Might I add that America is a republic not a democracy?

..what? the US is a democracy, just with a few twists.

Right, and it's those twists that make it a republic.  AFAIK, a republic is just a representative democracy, which is what we have.

I like America because while it has its flaws, they're pretty much what you'd expect in a nation like it, and the rest is just great.  Governments, especially big ones, are always going to be corrupt, and when you have a country this big with the freedoms that we do, yes, there are going to be a lot of idiots that talk more loudly than everyone else and are consequently the sort of people that America seems to be composed of.

Say what you want about the system, but it's given me a great life with a good education, decent career prospects, and plenty of freedom.  I don't really have anything to complain about.

[VijchtiDoodah]

Love the U.S. Would fuck it if I could find the hole.

We do have our share of loud idiots who shout at other loud idiots, often missing the fact that they have more in common than not. We are corrupt and greedy at times, but we are ethical and compassionate when we have the opportunity.

And we have a good portion of the world's money, which helps.

[Rai-Dei]

I love the USA, it has problems (all countries do what the fuck) they are just a spectacle for everyone else. I would not want to leave USA.

[LtKillroy]

America is great because of dissidence. And we're not afraid to steal other people's food.

[Blacksheepboy]

I would not want to leave USA.

I don't understand people who would.

[tehsnipah]

Korea:

I love Korea because there are more entertainments and more crowded. I personally like the crowded style for some reason.

The reason why I hate? Too many posers/trend followers, way too many soft musics, and right now, some men believe hand bag is the new "cool" bag. Unfortunately, it rather looks gay.... Holy shit I wanna lynch some of them just for the handbag....

[Boots]

anybody Australian here? always wanted to live there

Yes.

Like:
- Beaches
- Women
- Lots of free land
- Not many people care
- Kinda cheap place to live
- Kangaroo
- We're racist, but in the funny way :-D
- Not many natural disasters happen

Hate:
- Everyone worries to much, to much of the news filling our heads with bs
- Bogans.
- Fuel prices

[Hair|Trigger]

anybody Australian here? always wanted to live there

Yes.

Like:
- Beaches
- Women
- Lots of free land
- Not many people care
- Kinda cheap place to live
- Kangaroo
- We're racist, but in the funny way :-D
- Not many natural disasters happen

Hate:
- Everyone worries to much, to much of the news filling our heads with bs
- Bogans.
- Fuel prices
- New Release video game prices ($100+)

That's all I really have to say

[VijchtiDoodah]

anybody Australian here? always wanted to live there

- New Release video game prices ($100+)

That's all I really have to say

How do you survive?

[Kagesha]

g'day, love

[pavliko]

+100$ for a new game is cheap. Here in israel a new game cost +300$ if not +400. Thats the reason because i never buy games :/

[Hair|Trigger]

anybody Australian here? always wanted to live there

- New Release video game prices ($100+)

That's all I really have to say

How do you survive?

I never buy new release games.  can get them pretty cheap online though

[numgun]

Fuck, I thought this was about Country music.
Which I dislike personally, but meh.

Finland is alright and they have a good government system for the people
and such (not without flaws of course, but I'd say its a great achievement).
The weather and nature here is pretty difficult, but beatiful and has a large effect
on peoples mood from day to day. And by difficult I mean temperatures vary a lot and the amount of sun light changes dramatically between summer and winter.

All in all, its ok minus the niggers and alcoholics.

[Shard]

Ireland(hah, love being the only one who can talk about it )
Hate:
-Stereotyping because of some drunks ***gots meesing about
-Education system
-Public Transport
-High prices on some good stuff
-Crappy airsoft laws
-Lots of knackers(Irish hoodlums)
-s**tty broadband speeds...
-Funny weather

Love
-Lots'a gorgeous girls
-Good ping to Europe and America
-Close to both of the above countires
-Stupid Guards
-Euro worth alot of $$$
-Funny weather

Possibly more to come. Is there actualy another Irish person here! Cen ait ata tu! Ta uaignach orm...

+100$ for a new game is cheap. Here in israel a new game cost +300$ if not +400. Thats the reason because i never buy games :/

WHAT THE FUCK

[PANZERCATWAGON]

I never buy new release games.  can get them pretty cheap online though

buying games

also i live in the uk and i think its shit. dont ever come here

[Graham]

-Crappy airsoft laws

Worry about gun laws, not toy laws.

[PQ]

Yea, I would be worried if I were you?

BTW what does fuel cost over there?

Diesel costs 1€ atm, (1.50$)

[jrgp]

Yea, I would be worried if I were you?

BTW what does fuel cost over there?

Diesel costs 1€ atm, (1.50$)

Diesel isn't used very much over here, mostly just for industrial trucks and certain other things.

Normal gas ranges from $2 - $4. [per gallon]

[Slashnoob]

Israel.

+
We are one of the only nations who actually stand up to terrorism.
We don't give a fuck about shitty UN biased laws

-
World war III is going to be a real pain in the ass.. major draft and shit.

[tehsnipah]

My god, over $300 for a single game?! Holy fuck!

I respect and feel bad for you people for paying over $50....

[pavliko]

Israel.

+
We are one of the only nations who actually stand up to terrorism.

Does it? or its just that Israel is just defending itself from all the shit that became terrorism.

[numgun]

Thank goodness there is the internet and online shopping.
With those, you should be able to get your games cheap.

wtf? opera marked "internet" and "online" misspelled. FAIL Opera, FAIL.

[ds dude]

Europe is only good for visits, just because the cost of living in some areas are too high.

I'll just stay in the USA.

[-Major-]

Europe is only good for visits, just because the cost of living in some areas are too high.

I'll just stay in the USA.

because europe is organized.

[ds dude]

Everything is better in entropy.

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

Europe is only good for visits, just because the cost of living in some areas are too high.

I'll just stay in the USA.

because europe is organized.

If that's the price of organization, I'll take disorder (or, as I like to call it, freedom).

[Veritas]

disorder (or, as I like to call it, freedom).

Man

What

Ensuring freedoms requires order you stupid git

[Smegma]

Everything is better in entropy.

Good thing its always increasing

[ds dude]

Everything is better in entropy.

Good thing its always increasing

Yep.

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

Ensuring freedoms requires order you stupid git

If someone tells me I have to do something a certain way (which is necessary to produce order), then they're limiting my freedom.

[Biggles]

I can't say I love sweden but, our medical stuff and school education is free which is pretty neat, and I like our language.
Bad things about sweden is that we have one of the highest taxes in the world if not the highest, loads of people that are like politicans or bosses are cheating with money etc so you cant really trust anyone(I bet there is alot of this s**t in other countries too, but what can the country do when noone cares lol, peoples soultion is "lets become alcoholics"). A big amount of people don't have jobs.

Even if sweden kind of sucks, I think I might be more lucky then some other people so I shouldn't really complain. It's hard to be positive when some "leader/politican" make s**tty lies.

I also beleive that when world war 3 comes, Russia will take sweden and make it red.

[Psycho]

You can't say "Europe is this and that"

Europe has many countries ranging from the wealthiest in the world with the best quality of life, to some shitty poor ones. Saying Europe is only good for visiting is really stupid. Get back to me when you have tried living in all european countries and then compare.

[Graham]

Why would I not love my country? Getting pissy about my countries faults is like rejecting a pretty woman because she has a weird hairdo. Sure the hairdo is obvious and needs to be fixed, but when you look below it you will find that pretty woman, also tits.

[Veritas]

Ensuring freedoms requires order you stupid git

If someone tells me I have to do something a certain way (which is necessary to produce order), then they're limiting my freedom.

Which is why I said ensuring. Freedoms must have limits in order to be enforceable and practical.

PS: If you think your freedoms would be sustained without enforcement, lol

[Hair|Trigger]

PS: If you think your freedoms would be sustained without enforcement, lol

I disagree, having trust unlocks freedom and defeats the need for enforcement.

not that this is going to happen on a worldwide scale any time soon (if ever)

[Veritas]

PS: If you think your freedoms would be sustained without enforcement, lol

I disagree, having trust unlocks freedom and defeats the need for enforcement.

not that this is going to happen on a worldwide scale any time soon (if ever)

So you disagree with me but you agree with me 

[Ragnaros]

I also beleive that when world war 3 comes, Russia will take sweden and make it red.

[Patton]

FINLAND
+Free high quality education
+Good healthcare services
+Over 9000 thousand..... lakes to drown yourself in
+SAUNA, booze and a lot of beautiful booty

-Winters are really cold and long
-All kinds of natural phenomenons
-People incapable of small talk and usually pretty shy
-Lesbian president and a government full of pussies!

[jrgp]

-Lesbian president

How is that a con?

[LtKillroy]

-Lesbian president

How is that a con?

A real lesbian, not the porno ones.

[jrgp]

-Lesbian president

How is that a con?

A real lesbian, not the porno ones.

What do you mean the porno ones aren't real? I admit, most of them are either bi and/or paid into it, but still. You're saying the pres is annoyingly butch?

To be honest, I think it's impressive that a country elects a president who's orientation isn't straight. I wonder how long it'll be before the US does that.

[Liber Lupus]

FINLAND
+SAUNA, booze and a lot of beautiful booty

I strongly disagree.

[Graham]

-Lesbian president

How is that a con?

A real lesbian, not the porno ones.

What do you mean the porno ones aren't real? I admit, most of them are either bi and/or paid into it, but still. You're saying the pres is annoyingly butch?

To be honest, I think it's impressive that a country elects a president who's orientation isn't straight. I wonder how long it'll be before the US does that.

Ever met a really butch lesbian? They are not the bunch I want to be under.

[The Geologist]

-Lesbian president

How is that a con?

FFS man.



I rest my case.

[PANZERCATWAGON]

to be openly honest

id rather fuck conan o brien

[Smegma]

to be openly honest

id rather f**k conan o brien

No contest man.

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

A real lesbian, not the porno ones.

What do you mean the porno ones aren't real? I admit, most of them are either bi and/or paid into it, but still. You're saying the pres is annoyingly butch?

Okay, do you know any lesbians in real life? Once you do, you'll see exactly what he's talking about.

Also, porn is pretty much the least realistic thing ever.

[Patton]

She was the president of Finland's biggest gay organization at one point, though she haven't confessed anything about being gay herself.

Better that way I guess.

[Dusty]

She was the president of Finland's biggest gay organization at one point, though she haven't confessed anything about being gay herself.

Maybe because she's not a lesbian................?