OK here we have
a garden variety bigot talking about why gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry. Nothing special, certainly nothing we haven't seen before. It's become so common it doesn't even really anger me anymore lol - but the reason I'm pasting this is because the argument he is using is one that they all seem to use as if by some filthy bigot hive-mind. He's using the argument that essentially gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry because it doesn't benefit society. For some reason, this time it got me thinking.
Pretend for a moment that he is right - that gay marriage doesn't benefit society in any way. He's not, of course, but just use your imaginations. Why on earth, even if correct, is this argument relevant? Why does everything have to further some sort of human agenda in order for it to be legal? Why does everything we do
have to have a point?
Presumably, everyone who isn't gay is straight (asexuals get forgotten completely) so, presumably, they're all going to want to get married and have children and, again, presumably, having children is how you contribute. Doesn't matter that not everyone who can have kids "the old fashioned way" actually do, they still get a pass because, ya know, maybe they'll change their minds.
Er, yeah. Best I could do to get into the minds of people totally unlike me. I mean, I understand that you would ideally want all people to be contributing to the world. That's what I'd like, but I don't see people contributing through their orientations. I see it in stuff like people teaching, charities, and all that good stuff.
I am never watching House again. Due to a rude and outright distastful episode this season.
For those who haven't watched the episode. Wilson has an asexual couple as patients, and House makes a bet with him that she's not asexual, that it doesn't exist and something can explain it. So he scans the guy and finds he has a brain tumor that is affecting his sex drive and giving him ED. Then his wife says she's not asexual, she just humored him. Basically they said it didn't exist. And they put this on national television.
Link to a story. I just saw this episode and I had no idea so I was seriously shocked when I watched it.
It's not easy to have good portrayals outside of gay people in mass media outside of niche areas. Everything is kind of hit and miss. People who are asexual, bi, trans, and so on don't exactly have the wide support we need.
What do you realistically think the worldview on homosexuality might be like in 20 years time and why? What would you do now to help change the worldview so that it's one that you would like to see in the future
I see things steadily improving overall. I expect that in 20 years there is an even greater push world-wide to have it be respected even in parts of the world where you can be arrested for being gay. I'm optimistic that 20 years from now we'll have seen the last instance of someone being executed by a government for being queer and that the number of gay bashings will be next to zero. I'd expect that all the developed countries, the USA included, will allow marriage to everyone, though places like China to still be behind in official recognition.
I think 20 years is enough of a generation gap to put people who are young now into positions of power and for old fashioned people to step down, die off, or what have you, to the extent that they aren't representing the people of the world in politics and business and so on.
What do I do? Nothing specific at the moment. I try to stop bad comments when I hear them and all that. I used to go to a group that helped young people in trouble, but I've let that slide. I dunno, does being out count?