shegeek72
2008-01-30 01:32:44 UTC
Now wait, heterosexual agenda? You thought it was the homosexual
agenda.
That's what the religious (un)right would like us to believe. But if
we examine our culture there's overwhelming and persuasive pressure to
be heterosexual. From birth we're saturated with heterosexism, usually
beginning with our parents (unless one's parents are gay!). The media:
couples are almost always portrayed as male and female in magazines,
movies and TV, though gays and lesbians are receiving increasingly
more exposure from cable's 'The L-Word,' to public TV's 'In the Life'
to network's 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
Queer young people tend to hide their sexual orientation (depending on
how liberal the area), sometimes even dating the opposite sex to
appear "normal." But a more important aspect to staying in the closet
is to prevent the ostracizing, taunts, bashings, even murder that can
occur at the hands of homophobic people and there's lots of them. This
is a very real danger and a sad fact about the prejudices of our
society - it's an updated version of the discrimination and lynching
of blacks.
Parents sometimes try to push their children into a heterosexual
identity and, unless they know and accept their child's homosexuality,
refuse to acknowledge it or even reject them. An unmarried woman in
her 30s is sometimes looked-down on. "When are you going to marry and
have children?" family and friends will prod.
Sex researcher Michael Kinsey postulated that no one is explicitly
heterosexual or homosexual, rather we fall somewhere on a scale of 0 -
6, with 0 being totally hetero and 6 totally gay. The same is true of
gender - it's a spectrum; we've all seen the effeminate male or
masculine woman. A common mistake is to equate sex with gender -
they're separate and distinct. Sex is male and female, or a blending
of the two in intersexed people. Gender is where one presents on the
masculine-to-feminine scale. It is a social construct that places men
and women into distinct categories, each with its own attributes such
as dress, hair style, mannerisms, walk, etc. The West particularly has
strict gender constructs and often ridicules, or acts negatively
toward, gender-variant folks.
The retards of the religious (un)right think transgendered people are
trying to 'deconstruct biological gender.' Gender is not biological
for reasons stated and we have no desire to 'deconstruct' gender, even
if that were possible. However, we do want to live our lives without
transphobia and homophobia, and have better things to do than try to
get boys to wear dresses. Genetic sex is not just XX or XY - there are
many variations such as XXX, XXY, etc. Some are even born a phenotype
male with XX genes and vice-versa.
The Bush administration's "Defense of Marriage Act" is an attempt to
codify discrimination into the US Constitution. No matter how one
feels about same-sex marriage, denying one class of people the same
rights granted to another is in violation of the 14th Amendment's
equal protection of the laws.
If wanting equal rights means the end of homophobic / transphobic
attacks, discrimination, ostracization and having the same contractual
marriage rights as heterosexuals is an agenda, then so be it. When
negros were fighting for equal rights that must have been the African
American agenda.
Of course, homosexuals are pedophiles, luring unsuspecting boys into
the 'gay lifestyle' and our children are being 'recruited' into being
gays, lesbians and transgenders in schools across the country.
And I just saw a big, white rabbit carrying a pocket watch exclaiming,
"I'm late, I'm late!"
When I hear Christians spouting off about the homosexual agenda, this
is much ado about nothing. The heterosexual agenda is more persuasive
and powerful, along with the religious (un)right's anti-gay / anti-
trans agenda.
Blessings,
Tara
--
Tara's Transgender Resources
http://tarasresources.net
Metropolitan Community Churches
http://www.mccchurch.org
agenda.
That's what the religious (un)right would like us to believe. But if
we examine our culture there's overwhelming and persuasive pressure to
be heterosexual. From birth we're saturated with heterosexism, usually
beginning with our parents (unless one's parents are gay!). The media:
couples are almost always portrayed as male and female in magazines,
movies and TV, though gays and lesbians are receiving increasingly
more exposure from cable's 'The L-Word,' to public TV's 'In the Life'
to network's 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
Queer young people tend to hide their sexual orientation (depending on
how liberal the area), sometimes even dating the opposite sex to
appear "normal." But a more important aspect to staying in the closet
is to prevent the ostracizing, taunts, bashings, even murder that can
occur at the hands of homophobic people and there's lots of them. This
is a very real danger and a sad fact about the prejudices of our
society - it's an updated version of the discrimination and lynching
of blacks.
Parents sometimes try to push their children into a heterosexual
identity and, unless they know and accept their child's homosexuality,
refuse to acknowledge it or even reject them. An unmarried woman in
her 30s is sometimes looked-down on. "When are you going to marry and
have children?" family and friends will prod.
Sex researcher Michael Kinsey postulated that no one is explicitly
heterosexual or homosexual, rather we fall somewhere on a scale of 0 -
6, with 0 being totally hetero and 6 totally gay. The same is true of
gender - it's a spectrum; we've all seen the effeminate male or
masculine woman. A common mistake is to equate sex with gender -
they're separate and distinct. Sex is male and female, or a blending
of the two in intersexed people. Gender is where one presents on the
masculine-to-feminine scale. It is a social construct that places men
and women into distinct categories, each with its own attributes such
as dress, hair style, mannerisms, walk, etc. The West particularly has
strict gender constructs and often ridicules, or acts negatively
toward, gender-variant folks.
The retards of the religious (un)right think transgendered people are
trying to 'deconstruct biological gender.' Gender is not biological
for reasons stated and we have no desire to 'deconstruct' gender, even
if that were possible. However, we do want to live our lives without
transphobia and homophobia, and have better things to do than try to
get boys to wear dresses. Genetic sex is not just XX or XY - there are
many variations such as XXX, XXY, etc. Some are even born a phenotype
male with XX genes and vice-versa.
The Bush administration's "Defense of Marriage Act" is an attempt to
codify discrimination into the US Constitution. No matter how one
feels about same-sex marriage, denying one class of people the same
rights granted to another is in violation of the 14th Amendment's
equal protection of the laws.
If wanting equal rights means the end of homophobic / transphobic
attacks, discrimination, ostracization and having the same contractual
marriage rights as heterosexuals is an agenda, then so be it. When
negros were fighting for equal rights that must have been the African
American agenda.
Of course, homosexuals are pedophiles, luring unsuspecting boys into
the 'gay lifestyle' and our children are being 'recruited' into being
gays, lesbians and transgenders in schools across the country.
And I just saw a big, white rabbit carrying a pocket watch exclaiming,
"I'm late, I'm late!"
When I hear Christians spouting off about the homosexual agenda, this
is much ado about nothing. The heterosexual agenda is more persuasive
and powerful, along with the religious (un)right's anti-gay / anti-
trans agenda.
Blessings,
Tara
--
Tara's Transgender Resources
http://tarasresources.net
Metropolitan Community Churches
http://www.mccchurch.org