RE: At its Core, Christianity is a Gay Religion
July 4, 2015 at 4:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2015 at 4:37 pm by Regina.)
(July 4, 2015 at 3:49 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: though some said they would feel betrayed that they had not known
To a point, that's understandable to me. I think some people do wonder "well, did they not trust me?" when a friend they've known since the Stone Age finally tells them. I remember when I was coming out, I tried to explain to some of my long-term friends that my choice not to tell them was about me not being ready, not about trust. I knew my best friend Kris would be supportive for ages before I finally said it, but I just wasn't ready to come out.
That said, when someone takes this feeling of betrayal to an extreme, that to me just reeks of this pathetic "straight victim" narrative. There are many reasons why someone might not scream about being gay, some people have this entitlement where they feel they need to know.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"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
