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LadyEllen -> RE: public leash (7/3/2007 5:01:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomDog
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ORIGINAL: AquaticSub
Homosexuality hasn't become acceptable, or as accepted as it is now, by shoving it in the faces of everyone around.
BZZZZZZtttt Dead wrong.
Being militant, loud and 'shoving it in faces' is exactly how homosexuality has gotten to the point it is now. Think about it. Homosexuals have been around for millennia, and only recently have they gotten rights? Just coincidence?
You don't really think that things like "Pride Week" are put on by breeders out of the goodness of their hearts, do you?
To my mind, Aquatic had it just about right - openly flaunting sexuality is not very helpful to anyone becoming accepted in society; and that goes as much for the straight vanillas as for anyone else.
I, and I think most people, dont give a monkey's what people get up in private, but dont want to see it out on the street. I'd be as unaccepting of a straight couple petting on the street corner as two homosexual people doing the same, as of two of any variety demonstrating their particular moments of intimacy whatever the genre. Its about showing some respect to others and more important perhaps, showing some self respect.
Its only by way, as Aquatic said, of everyone getting to understand that homosexuality is and always has been all around us and that people we know and love and trust are homosexual, that this group has been able to express itself at all. That is, by demonstrating that theyre not a danger to the rest of us and that they do adhere to the norms of society that are required for us all to get along as much as possible - good manners and mutual respect. I fail to see how public demonstrations of bdsm will accomplish the same aims - rather I tend to think that it will have the opposite effect, reinforcing the idea that we are dangerous, deviant, mentally ill and unable to live in normal society.
Now as for the likes of Pride Rallies - yes, they are important, but they are carnivals where in the true sense of carnivals, anything goes. Were it not for the strong effect of Puritanical social policy that still runs through British and much of American society I'll venture, we would understand that. Carnivals in other cultures where Puritanism didnt tame them down to the levels we in England "enjoy", are far more overt and raucous and chaotic (and fun), and this is the same approach used for Pride Rallies. Note how though, when the Rally is over, the participants return to their everyday lives, and dont continue wearing all the regalia and behaving the same way for the other 364 days of the year.
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