Reply #37: Well, if you ever figure it out, we can finally find a cure! [View All]

[Plaid Adder]

Woudln't that be nice...

Really, I don't know what it is that gets people so het up about it. But het up they certainly are. As I was saying to my partner in perversity earlier today, the whole "force us to bow down to their desires" thing is really very telling from a Freudian point of view. It's like they feel that somehow, if they live in a society where homosexuality is acceptable, it will immediately become mandatory, and they will be FORCED to have same-sex marriages whether they like it or not.

The most interesting commentary on this phenomenon came from a right-wing pundit called the Reverend Cameron who one day, on some show or other, found himself expressing the theory that if we didn't stigmatize homosexuality it woudl eventually replace heterosexuality because 'let's face it, marital sex tends toward the boring.'

His words, not mine, folks. The good Reverend Cameron believes that homosexual sex would simply wipe the floor with heterosexual sex if it were all down to sheer orgasmic power, because homosexual sex is just, well, more fun. I mean, *I* certainly think it's more fun...but that's cause I'm a lesbian. This Cameron guy is supposedly straight--why is he running down his own people that way?

But that is the basic function of all forms of homophobia: to try to prevent people from acknowledging, accepting, and acting on their homosexuality by making being gay as unpleasant as it can be. And you know what, on one level, that tactic works very well. There are a lot of gay people who get into straight marriages because they are just too daunted by trying to live as gay people. Similarly, there are a lot of people who might be gay, but have been so terrorized about the possibility that they simply shut down altogether and have no real sexual life at all. With enough power, you can beat people into the closet.

And maybe that's why they're afraid--they know that they have done it to us, and so they are always expecting the payback, the moment at which we turn around and do it to them. The idea that we might not actually care to exact that particular kind of revenge does not occur to them. Because that would involve their realizing that they are not universally desirable, and that in fact, most gay people might not WANT some snivelling fundie wacko to bow down before their desires.

Ah well,

The Plaid Adder