
05-22-2007, 01:15 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 482
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Stigma
No doubt this has been discussed before, but I feel that it is necessary to mention something that I have noticed. It has to do with straight men or women engaging in things that society considers gay. A good example of that is when a couple (man & woman) use a strap on and the guy is the one who is taking it up the rear. Now to me that would be a power trip for the woman as the roles are reversed and in the end it is the guy who is having something done to him. As I stated in my thread on strap on dildo's just very recently, my friend who has reservations about what is gay what is not, is a good example of what I am talking about. The funny thing is the gay and lesbian community go through this kind of discrimination regularly.
As I mentioned above about my friend, I asked him this simple question, "if you were blindfolded and a guy and a girl both were in the room and you got head by both would you know the difference?" To which he replied "yeah I would because of the stubble on the guys chin." Now I find that a farce because as anyone knows when a person is sucking dick, the external part of their face doesn't actually touch anything. It's the mouth and tongue that is doing all the pleasure.
To me what makes a person gay or lesbian comes down to some very simple things and they are: liking the same sex and doing something about those feelings. All this comes down to is one thing.........choice. We as a society should not be condemned for the choices that we make. If a person has feelings towards the same sex and they can't help it so what? What business is it of society to tell this person what is acceptable? What about those who bat for both teams? Is society's stigma so bad that people have forgotten what it means to have tolerance of other's?
There are those who are so repressed that they go and "bash gays" because they think it's not natural. Whatever their reasons, they are not justified as the person who is getting bashed up wouldn't go any where near the person who is beating them up. I have known geeks when I was at school that were called "gay" and beaten up for no reason. Now of course they weren't gay but it's not the point. It's the whole notion of being labelled as such and having people react and prey on that person because they are too weak to stand up to bullies. Once out of high school, the bully is society. The most interesting part about this is, the gay and lesbian community are tolerant of straights and leave them alone, they don't go around 'straight bashing" because society wouldn't condone this kind of behaviour.
I am straight and have known over the years gay and lesbian people, I have no problem with them and have worked with these people as well. Perception is everything, but judging a person on what they are as apposed to their qualities and what they can do is where the problem lies. I have known a gay guy go for a job at a pub, he had experience and was qualified with his cert 1 and 2 of hospitality. He was also doing his cert 3 and 4. He appled for this position against a straight guy who had no experience and no qualifiactions. Take a guess who got the job? The straight guy, why you might ask? (One would think from an employeer's point of view, you would want the most experienced and qualified person to fill the role.) Simple because he is not gay.
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