RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
August 17, 2015 at 1:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2015 at 1:47 pm by Regina.)
Because there's more to being gay than just "sexual attraction". There's often a gender nonconfmormity to it especially present in children that can make them feel "different" from a young age. I never started to realise I was gay until I was 12, but I did always feel a bit different. And when I look back at my childhood it's just fucking obvious I'd be gay.
That's not the case for all gay people sure, but one thing that's ubiquitous for all people is that their sexual orientation is not a choice.
Children are certainly aware of the concept of "romance" (helped along by Disney's "happily ever after" trope). However, their understanding of intimate relationships is rudimentary and innocent. a little girl playing as a princess fantasizing about finding her Prince is not the same as knowing about sex and having the hormones to experience sexual arousal.
That's not the case for all gay people sure, but one thing that's ubiquitous for all people is that their sexual orientation is not a choice.
Children are certainly aware of the concept of "romance" (helped along by Disney's "happily ever after" trope). However, their understanding of intimate relationships is rudimentary and innocent. a little girl playing as a princess fantasizing about finding her Prince is not the same as knowing about sex and having the hormones to experience sexual arousal.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
