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Open your eyes!
Jun. 27th, 2006 04:15 pmI'm gay. I don't need any proof that homosexuality isn't a choice. But I wish that more people would use a little common sense and take a look around them.
When you look at people, what do you see? Huge ranges in hair color, skin color, eye color. Differences in height, in weight, in build. Differently sized breasts or cocks. Voices of every timbre. Hair texture. Complexion. Most of us are born male or female, but there are a few that are physically intersexed. Proven differences in susceptibilities to certain diseases. Some people have physical allergies to common substances. The shape of the mouth or the nose.
You probably couldn't catalog all the ways that each of us can physically differ from another. Differences that we obviously had no part in choosing. With such a long list of external differences, why do some people persist in believing that we must all be the same in our minds, and especially in our sexual responses?
And just as we have many shades of skin color between "black" and "white," it seems completely obvious to me that we must have a continuum of sexual response from heterosexual to homosexual. Bisexuality? It's just as real as a strawberry blonde. Similarly, there must be a continuum of gender identity. If a child can be born with external physical aspects of both genders, why insist that it's impossible for something similar in the mind?
It's all so obvious to me.
When you look at people, what do you see? Huge ranges in hair color, skin color, eye color. Differences in height, in weight, in build. Differently sized breasts or cocks. Voices of every timbre. Hair texture. Complexion. Most of us are born male or female, but there are a few that are physically intersexed. Proven differences in susceptibilities to certain diseases. Some people have physical allergies to common substances. The shape of the mouth or the nose.
You probably couldn't catalog all the ways that each of us can physically differ from another. Differences that we obviously had no part in choosing. With such a long list of external differences, why do some people persist in believing that we must all be the same in our minds, and especially in our sexual responses?
And just as we have many shades of skin color between "black" and "white," it seems completely obvious to me that we must have a continuum of sexual response from heterosexual to homosexual. Bisexuality? It's just as real as a strawberry blonde. Similarly, there must be a continuum of gender identity. If a child can be born with external physical aspects of both genders, why insist that it's impossible for something similar in the mind?
It's all so obvious to me.
