Ridiculous Things People Say.
I have been graced by listening to some outstanding idiocy lately. Let us look at these sentences:
1) "I thought they [gay people] had stopped trying to make the world gay."
2) Someones friend or sister had been in a bad relationship: "she needs a new, good boyfriend."
3) "I don't mind gay people, I just don't think they should be trying to spread their values to me."
One of the amazing things with other people is that they say such outlandish things. Let's analyze this.
1) Do gay people have an agenda? Are they sitting around somewhere, plotting how to make everyone gay? Does the Gay Supreme Council scheme nightly? One day... one day!!
No, to be serious, even if it is hard with this sentence, it doesn't make any sense. This person reflected over some guy hitting on another guy when he didn't want to. But don't men do this, too? And don't do women, as well? It has nothing to do with their sexuality, because you can't look into someones brain to find what is in there and who they like to have sex with. If I were to hit on a woman she might, for example, be a Christian who didn't believe in sex before marriage, she might be taken, she might be a lesbian, she might not like people with my appearance. Shall I then respond with something like "It's the females trying to make the world [X]!" or rather "It's the socialist bloggers trying to make everyone socialist bloggers through hitting on them!". It doesn't make any sense to say this. If some woman hit on me, I might not want her to do it, but I wouldn't believe it was part of some overarching agenda.
2) Women don't need boyfriends. Viewing women as somehow "half" without a man is incredibly stupid. They can be just like everyone else, they might need someone, but that is then based on their personality (and how they are affected by their culture). But there is nothing essential in being a woman that necessitates a man, -anywhere-! This kind of structural sexism is unfortunately way too common.
3) Again, where do these gay values come from? I know gay people which are quite different from one another. They share none of the stereotypes, they share no similar traits except their sexuality and they are very different people. Where do gay values come from? The Gay Supreme Council, again? I can only imagine that the poster is talking about their sexuality like in 1. However, again, I am sure gay people would think it was nice if there were more people around there who might love them as intimately as they can love others of their sex. Considering what a small percentage they are it's definately true that it must be rough to find someone.
Let's spring clean! Let's wreck everything and start over! Tabula rasa, we start from scratch, we clean out what is not essential and we go out to try and prove our ideas. When we fail, we must abandon them. We must also do and act. In so doing and acting we become *aware*. We can change our nature in ways that were unprecedented through sheer thought in that.
1) "I thought they [gay people] had stopped trying to make the world gay."
2) Someones friend or sister had been in a bad relationship: "she needs a new, good boyfriend."
3) "I don't mind gay people, I just don't think they should be trying to spread their values to me."
One of the amazing things with other people is that they say such outlandish things. Let's analyze this.
1) Do gay people have an agenda? Are they sitting around somewhere, plotting how to make everyone gay? Does the Gay Supreme Council scheme nightly? One day... one day!!
No, to be serious, even if it is hard with this sentence, it doesn't make any sense. This person reflected over some guy hitting on another guy when he didn't want to. But don't men do this, too? And don't do women, as well? It has nothing to do with their sexuality, because you can't look into someones brain to find what is in there and who they like to have sex with. If I were to hit on a woman she might, for example, be a Christian who didn't believe in sex before marriage, she might be taken, she might be a lesbian, she might not like people with my appearance. Shall I then respond with something like "It's the females trying to make the world [X]!" or rather "It's the socialist bloggers trying to make everyone socialist bloggers through hitting on them!". It doesn't make any sense to say this. If some woman hit on me, I might not want her to do it, but I wouldn't believe it was part of some overarching agenda.
2) Women don't need boyfriends. Viewing women as somehow "half" without a man is incredibly stupid. They can be just like everyone else, they might need someone, but that is then based on their personality (and how they are affected by their culture). But there is nothing essential in being a woman that necessitates a man, -anywhere-! This kind of structural sexism is unfortunately way too common.
3) Again, where do these gay values come from? I know gay people which are quite different from one another. They share none of the stereotypes, they share no similar traits except their sexuality and they are very different people. Where do gay values come from? The Gay Supreme Council, again? I can only imagine that the poster is talking about their sexuality like in 1. However, again, I am sure gay people would think it was nice if there were more people around there who might love them as intimately as they can love others of their sex. Considering what a small percentage they are it's definately true that it must be rough to find someone.
Let's spring clean! Let's wreck everything and start over! Tabula rasa, we start from scratch, we clean out what is not essential and we go out to try and prove our ideas. When we fail, we must abandon them. We must also do and act. In so doing and acting we become *aware*. We can change our nature in ways that were unprecedented through sheer thought in that.
posted by Björn at 5:15 PM
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